belly dancing

A friend was teaching me some belly dancing moves a couple nights ago.

"Wait", you say. "Belly dancing for men?".

"Well yes, of course.", I say. "It's quite traditional. The trick is that you have to act like a fierce LION!"

Belly Dancing for Men
Masculine Belly Dance
Belly Dancing Resources

I really enjoyed learning some belly dancing moves, and found that there was quite a bit in common with Yoga. I love the body control and independant body part movement, which also reminds me of drumming.

Neato! A new hobby for sness!

dartagnan

Mmmm, D'Artagnan food supplier. Saw it on the ReMARKable podcast.

wisteria

wisteria is a lightweight MVC framework for building fast APIs with Ruby, nicely suited for REST APIs.

acts_as_trashable

acts_as_trashable looks like a neat plugin for doing undo in Rails applications

mime and http response codes

mime-types

HTTP status codes

testing rails

Some good articles about testing in Ruby on Rails applications:

Integration Tests at clarkware.com
Rails Integration Testing
Integration test file uploads - This didn't actually work for me, but YMMV.
multipart_post - This one did work for me for uploading files in Integration tests, and integration_test_file_upload.rb is the file you install in RAILS_HOME/lib
Integration Testing by Jamis Buck, excellent article.

gems.rubyonrails.org

I was having all this trouble updating ActionMailer tonight, and couldn't figure out why. It turns out that the main http://gems.rubyonrails.org is down! That's just crazy!

sigur ros

I never could get into Sigur Ros, but then I just got I-Gaer from one of my many podcast streams (I'm not even sure which one), and I am blown away!

barcelona food girl

My friend Anna is in Spain and her blog Barcelona Food Girl is a complete pleasure to read. Food Rapture!

definr 2

And definr is written in Ruby on Rails! That's so cool how fast they made it run!

definr

definr is a super crazy fast new online dictionary. how can they be so fast!

geek meditation

meditation 2.0

orca

A friend told me about the book Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us by Alexandra Morton, I've got to read this book!

web design

A great article at A List Apart about Web Design. They make the excellent point that Web Design is not Print Design, Illustration, Poster Design.

A quote:

"Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity."

th wizard uv time

postmod

Postmodern programming is writing software using as much existing software as possible.

lisp

chapter 1 and chapter 2 of ANSI Common Lisp.

vi

vi gang sign:



is also 'the shocker'. ah, you poor vi kids.

lighthouse

sts