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Re: Deliberate Git - Rake Routes

tjstankus — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:51:48 -0000

Sad I missed your talk. Thanks for sharing - great stuff!

Re: The Time Karl Rove Took on the Fox News Decision Desk

tjstankus — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:15:32 -0000

That was like watching Spinal Tap find the stage in Cleveland.

Re: http://hlbz.db.qa.fmpub.net/antioxys

tjstankus — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:35:00 -0000

I am pro oxidant

Re: Is there such a thing as a portable database?

tjstankus — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:36:16 -0000

A CouchApp (http://couchapp.org/) fits your needs, to some extent. CouchDB can store HTML/JS and act as a web server. Cross-platform is where it gets sticky. If you just needed MacOS compatibility, you could probably distribute via CouchDBX (http://janl.github.com/couc... or a similar CouchDB client with data, HTML/JS intact.

But, yeah, I think you've posed a simple problem with complex answers. Kinda like fixing Congress. :)

Re: Future Rides - DailyBuzz Luxe

tjstankus — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:30:18 -0000

Ever since riding a BMW R1200R a couple weeks ago I've been aching, literally aching, for one. That Ducati sure is purty though!

Re: http://dev.mbz.fmpub.net/squeeze-it-in

tjstankus — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:18:24 -0000

Testing 123

Re: http://dev.mbz.fmpub.net/squeeze-it-in

tjstankus — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:18:05 -0000

Testing 123

Re: http://localhost:3000/kitchen-tips

tjstankus — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:16:32 -0000

Testing 123

Re: http://thechangelog.com/post/871001431

tjstankus — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:14:51 -0000

+1 for KarlMalone

Re: Ruby Best Practices - IDEA: Ruby Mendicant University

tjstankus — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:22:49 -0000

Interesting to hear your intentions behind collecting donations. :) I love the idea, especially because I appreciate a more time-distributed approach to learning. Count me in.

Re: http://fadeyev.net/2010/05/10/getting-started-with-toto/

tjstankus — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:24:12 -0000

Thanks for this article. I've just recently started converting my Jekyll-based site to Toto and I'm sure I'll be referring back here as I progress. I love that Toto is purpose-written for Heroku and HTTP caching. Kudos to cloudhead for an awesome little piece of software.

Re: http://blog.groupstory.com/post/532112032

tjstankus — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:18:21 -0000

That Stankus guy really needs to shave and stop making so many funny faces.

Re: Duncan's Journal (Help Your Laptop Run Cool)

tjstankus — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:13:06 -0000

The Podium Pad is perfect for this. http://roadtools.com/ I use mine constantly. It's lasted for 4+ years without replacement.

Re: http://blog.groupstory.com/post/475555790

tjstankus — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:43:46 -0000

This video came out great, guys.

Re: Ruby statement modifers behave differently than conditional statements - Ryan Angilly's Blog

tjstankus — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:27:03 -0000

The conditional execution operator ||= may help clarify your code here and avoid this issue entirely, e.g., a ||= 5

Re: Duff OMelia

tjstankus — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:43:34 -0000

The title of that book is misleading. It should be something like Mastering Ruby. David Black is probably my favorite Ruby author. If you're in the spirit, also check out Gregory Brown's "Ruby Best Practices".

Re: Brandon Mathis :: Design Enthusiast :: Fancy Buttons Are Here!

tjstankus — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:02 -0000

This is awesome Brandon. I'll definitely be giving it a whirl.

Re: Dear jetBlue | The 30-day flight

tjstankus — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:32:45 -0000

30 days of airplanes. Sounds interesting. Also sounds like a perfect recipe for catching something. I hope you guys plan on washing your hands, like, a lot. Seriously. I'd like to follow this journey, not hear about how you guys got sick after a week.

Re: Ruby Best Practices - Should I Tap that Hash? (Ruby 1.9 Style)

tjstankus — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:15:36 -0000

I'm sort of on the fence here, but if I had to choose, I'd go with the 'sexy' tap version. I think over time the slightly higher cognitive load of using tap will diminish. And from an aesthetic standpoint, the block-ish code does feel more Ruby-esque to me.

You make a good point about readability and learnability. One the one hand, the simpler version may be more immediately readable. But it's okay, I think, to have some code that requires a bit more from the reader. That's how we push our craft forward. I'm not saying always go with clever over readable, but a sprinkle or two here and there is all right with me.

Re: A Django Developer’s Views on Rails

tjstankus — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:22:33 -0000

Nice article James. Having done a fair amount of programming in Python and Ruby I have been through some of the transition pain you describe. For example, should I use 'and' or '&&' in Ruby? (Answer: use &&. It's got a higher precedence and is more canonical Ruby code.) Most of that kind of confusion goes away after a while. I've come to really love Ruby. IMO it's a beautiful and flexible language. If TMTOWTDI bothers you though, Ruby may not be a good fit for you.

You make a good point with the multiple apps in a project concern. But that's being addressed in Rails 3. There's also an interesting trend in the Ruby community (well, maybe not a trend just yet) of building several small, limited responsibility apps that talk via HTTP/REST. The Sinatra guys gave a talk about this at RubyConf 2008 (http://rubyconf2008.confrea... That approach definitely keeps your logic separate and contained, but makes your data available between apps. It's probably not the best approach in all situations but it works well for some.

Re: A Django Developer’s Views on Rails

tjstankus — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:07:30 -0000

Actually Rails *does* separate business and template/view logic. James's complaint that "you can chuck as much rails code as you like in amongst your markup" is about what you could do, not about what you should do, or what Rails encourages you to do. I've looked at a lot of Rails code, some of it downright bad, but I've never seen gross and consistent abuse of model/view logic separation. It's just not a problem in the real world.

Re: danieltenner.com — How to get a merchant account

tjstankus — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:39:42 -0000

Thanks Daniel, that's good to know.

Re: danieltenner.com — Counting hours doesn't make sense

tjstankus — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:53:37 -0000

Interesting to see that there are 3x as many comments in the Hacker News thread for this article than there are here. Just an observation - I'm not sure what to make of it. EDIT: Oops, I didn't mean this comment to be a reply to the above comment, but the article itself.

Re: danieltenner.com — Counting hours doesn't make sense

tjstankus — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:10:48 -0000

Nice post. As a self-employed freelancer, it's tempting to measure everything with time, because I'm literally trading time for money. I've found that when I just focus on the work process, and not even necessarily the results, I'm most effective, most productive, and (surprise!) get the best results.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: rails vs django

tjstankus — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:48:27 -0000

One of the most attractive things about Rails is that testing receives first-class status as a feature. The Rails Community has pretty much adopted this stance, one which is vital for dynamic languages. The last time I looked into Django, app testability was a concern, but it seemed like somewhat of an afterthought. Maybe things have changed.