April 2009

I'm screwing around with the host settings of this website pretty much continually.  If you should happen to come by here and find a "Site doesn't exist" or other such notice, please check back soon.  I probably just changed some setting to see what would happen and ended up hosing the entire site.  Thanks to Scotty Baron for the word "hosed".

I went to school in Boone, North Carolina at Appalachian State University. When I picture heaven in my head, it looks more or less like what I remember the drive from Banner Elk to Boone along 105 looking like - Grandfather Mountain, the old Gold Mine tourist joint in Foscoe, Hawk's Nest ski area where I used to be a lift operator, that sandwich place on the corner of the turn to Valle Cruces, the leaves in the fall, the walk up Howard's Knob, hiking up Table Rock in the middle of the night to see the most beautiful sunrise a few hours later.

As in, what does that mean, anyway?  I'll try and keep it short.

When I spoke of Ruby on Rails the other day as the 'hotsh!t dev platform of the day', I realized that it would need some clarification.  So let me clarify.

Coding pretty much anything is a massive, time consuming job.  That's part of the reason that computer languages have evolved from 1s and 0s to Fortran to C to C++ to Java to Ruby: if you were to try and write the Twitter website in assembly language (binary), you'd be there coding for a very long time.  If you were to try and write Windows 7, you couldn't do it.

All of the sudden, by bandwidth has gone up?  I wonder what people are doing on there?

Simpletons guide to web server analysis.

They still suck!

So, as I mentioned in some other post, after about my first hour or so playing with the iPhone, it came to me that this was a device that could help you get things done.  No more going to the computer, turning on the computer, waiting for it to boot up, etc., just to check my email?  A calendar that I always have in my pocket?  These were revelations to my unorganized old-self.  After the 2.0 update and the ability to add functionality to an already cool device was released, that's when the real fun began.