(This article also appears in Tucows Farm.)
“Paul Graham might have be the first speaker at this conference to quote the Old Testament,” said Nathaniel Talbott at the start of his presentation titled Homesteading: A Thriver’s Guide, “but he won’t be the last!” He then quipped that unlike Graham, he wasn’t going to contradict the Old [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Jun
27
2006
RailsConf 2006: Nathaniel Talbott: “Homesteading: A Thriver’s Guide”
Jun
27
2006
RailsConf 2006: Paul Graham: "The Power of the Marginal"
(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.)
“Well, well, well…” said Paul Graham at the start of his keynote to much audience laughter. “I thought that having to speak just before Damian Conway’s classic rants on Perl and Klingon, with a complete multimedia slideshow would be the toughest gig I’d ever have to do, and now [...]
Jun
27
2006
RailsConf 2006: Back, and Macs
(This article also appears on Tucows Farm.)
I’m back from Chicago, where I attended the first international Ruby on Rails Conference, better known as RailsConf. Taking place from Friday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 25th, it was the largest single gathering of Ruby on Rails developers ever held. The vibe there was great — it was [...]
Jun
25
2006
Hello from RailsConf!
Actually, I’ve been in Chicago since late Thursday afternoon and RailsConf since Friday, but the internet connection’s been rather spotty, what with 600 nerds all hitting the local wireless access point all at once. Things have been pretty good, and I’ll have a full report in a couple of days.
Jun
25
2006
Happy 9th Month-a-versary, Wendy!
It’s been nine months since I said “I do” to my lovely wife and every day has been as wonderful as it’s been for the cats shown below:
Happy 9th month-a-versary, Wendy!
Jun
21
2006
Starbucks, Sustainability and Livability
I’m going to be talking about Starbucks, gentrification and related issues for the next little while, and I’m even going to tie them into the “How to Turn Toronto into a High-Tech Hub” series of articles I’ve been posting. Here’s the first in a series of articles that I’m going to write as data points [...]
Jun
21
2006
Tucows Job Fair This Saturday!
If you’re a software developer looking for work for a great company with solid people located in a fun neighbourhood, you should drop by the Tucows Job Fair this Saturday. We’re looking for junior, intermediate and senior Java developers, integration engineers and UI developers.
If you’re thinking “Tucows? I thought they were a shareware site!”, you’re [...]
Jun
21
2006
I Probably Owe You an Email, Phone Call or a Visit
If you are one of my friends, acquaintances or business associates, I probably owe you an email, phone call or visit. Things have been rather busy both at work and at home, but rest assured, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I ask for your patience and promise not [...]
Jun
20
2006
To Be Discussed Later: "Gentrification, Urban Renewal…Po-TAY-to, PO-TAH-to"
In my entry about the King Street West cafe called “Journo”, I mentioned that I’d write about gentrification, Starbucks and its malcontents and “coffee coding”. I still plan to do that, but thought that I should post an entry that’s been sitting in draft form for far too long. I think it makes a decent [...]
Jun
20
2006
"Hugs Not Jihads" T-Shirts
Jeffrey Rowland of the webcomic/blog Overcompensating has come up with these new t-shirts: “Hugs Not Jihads”:
