Pete On Rails - Latest Comments in General

Re: Visualizing user interaction with your site.

Khristian — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:02:12 -0000

I'm glad I took a look at your site and followed your link. I was wondering how this was relevant to a toilet paper company (angelsoft.COM).

Re: You are invited to my open alpha of MyQuotable.com

peteonrails — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:50:31 -0000

Larry: Thank you! I appreciate your help and support. I'd love to hear about ways the service could be useful to you. And, of course, about any bugs you find. Good luck, and happy quoting!

Re: You are invited to my open alpha of MyQuotable.com

lmarburger — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:13:07 -0000

That's a fun idea. I created an account and I'll try to add a few random quotes from whatever I happen to be reading at the time. I also subscribed to the main RSS feed. Should make for a nice change of pace when I read the mostly technical in nature feeds I subscribe to.

Congrats on launching! A lot of great ideas never make it that far.

Re: There is no reason to climb a ladder if you aren’t interested in what it at the top.

peteonrails — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:39:29 -0000

I think you opted out of a lousy job years ago. .

Re: There is no reason to climb a ladder if you aren’t interested in what it at the top.

Khristian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:59:53 -0000

Hmm. Maybe I'm not smart or maybe I just need a pep talk. Ha!

Re: Say what you’d say if you weren’t worried about getting fired.

peteonrails — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:03:20 -0000

Of all the people I know who say it like it is, consquences-be-damned, you're at the top of the list. :)

Re: Say what you’d say if you weren’t worried about getting fired.

Brentmc79 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:57:08 -0000

Damn straight!

There's nothing worse in the workplace than having to deal with political BS and playing the corporate game. You know me, I call 'em like I see 'em cuz there's no point in beating around the bush. That just slows things down.

Re: GitHub Javascript Badge

Dr Nic — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:02:15 -0000

Some people have modified the badge locally with CSS changes. e.g. http://ozmm.org/ - he's hidden the badge's head and included his own. Might help.

Re: DRY controllers: Which Framework do you use?

Peter Jackson — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:51:58 -0000

@mitchell Thanks for your vote. I agree that they're all very good frameworks. Personally, the syntax of "resource_controller" appeals to me. There's a reason I think things need to shake out a little bit: as the rails community grows, there will be more developers who work in teams with others who have different backgrounds.

If I were to land on a team with three other developers, it's possible that each of us might know the nuances of a different framework. I'd bet that the team would burn a lot of valuable time picking a DRY controller framework, instead of writing useful code. Then 3/4 of the team would have to spend a few hours learning the new conventions.

I predict that one of these frameworks will eventually be folded in to the Rails framework itself.

On an unrelated topic: How do you know Brent?

Re: DRY controllers: Which Framework do you use?

Mitchell Blankenship — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:23:27 -0000

Personally I use resource_controller. Like you Peter it's the one I started with first and have become accustomed too. Seems to me though when it comes down to it you can't go wrong with any of them. I think it's better to have options especially when all the options mean cleaner more efficient code.

Re: Ruby Gem - Threaded Collections: Process collections over many threads

Peter Jackson — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:40:03 -0000

Hahaha. No: I quit my night job.

Funny thing is, we strongly considered rails for our portal app 3 years ago. Rob talked us out of it. Imagine that.

Re: Ruby Gem - Threaded Collections: Process collections over many threads

Brent — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:23:19 -0000

Hmm...

A new blog, with multiple posts in a single day, and a new found interest in Ruby...

Did you quit your day job or what?

Re: DRY controllers: Which Framework do you use?

Peter Jackson — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:17:21 -0000

@nathan Incidentally, so do I. The other few have benefits, but I started with m_r and know it the best, so I've stuck with it.

Re: DRY controllers: Which Framework do you use?

Nathan Weizenbaum — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:50:19 -0000

I use make_resourceful... but then again, I'm biased.

Re: Code Highlighting in Typo

Pete Jackson — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:36:10 -0000

LOL. Nice. I'm actually thinking of moving to Dirtylicious, but I wanna move the sidebars to the right. The only weakness in that layout is the left hand nav, which I think is kinda not good for blogs.

Re: Code Highlighting in Typo

Brent — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:52:16 -0000

Are you kidding me? You give me crap about my theme, and *this* is the theme you're pimping? C'mon Pete...

If I had a nickel for every typo/scribbish blog I've seen, I'd be a rich man.

All jokes aside, I'm not sure how much longer that blog will be around anyway...