I just learned yesterday that in Austria, Eddy Grant’s big hit from the 80s was “Johanna” and not “Electric Avenue.” I find this disturbing. There are a ton of examples like this. More to come.
I must say, this song is pretty cool. (more…)
I found this site lablogoteque when I was searching youtube for the Fleet Foxes. It is fucking wonderful. I am really in love with it. I don’t speak a lick of french but it doesn’t matter! It’s stuff that makes me a little weepy when I have had a few too many. Here are a some samples. Some of the camera work makes me a little pukey.
I just got the SEO extension for Google Chrome Developer version. I like it. You can see really quickly how your site stands with a bunch of different services. So I did the narcissistic thing of using my name in the keyword suggestion tool and this is what I got.
I have also been using the Chrome Sniffer extension which I love. It sniffs out which CMS the current site you are viewing is using and displays it in your navigation window. It even smells the stink which is Typo3. The Chrome Firebug extension is still pretty much non-functional but I think that they will have something pretty awesome soon.
I just went to the post office today to pick up my MYSQL Developer’s Library book. I was just at the same post office a few days ago to pick up what I guess is a reckless moped driving ticket. The strange thing is… no one pulled me over. It says that I overtook a car stopped at a crosswalk that was full of people. Probably true but who reported me? Was it a cop on foot? Was it a concerned cross-walker? I have no flippin’ idea. Totally strange for me. This don’t happen in ‘Mer’ca!
The MYSQL book is good so far. He is trying to take a non-traditional and maybe in consequence, non-put-my-ass-to-sleep approach. He’s getting right into examples so I will have to bust out my typing fingers. And He is Paul Dubois. The book is THICK. I think this may take awhile.
I chose MYSQL because it is not easy to find a robust, cheap host that supports PostgreSQL and I really like Dreamhost. I am able to connect with SSH and I have my own copy of Ruby compiled. I think that my database skills fall into the OK category and that isn’t good enough. I also got a book on optimizing MYSQL but that is a bit down the road.
I have some ideas to make this blog a little more usable in the near future but I’ve gotta get a little caught up on some stuff first! I think Ms. Palin needs to be replaced soon by another beloved celeb. When I make comments work I will ask for suggestions.
And I almost forgot, I gave a presentation to one of our clients today using Prezi. I really learned how to use it and put together the presentation in a couple hours. Beautiful learning curve. Nothing like Typo3, which was the subject of the presentation…
So, I just went to the Vienna Javascript Meeting hosted by Thomas Fuchs (creator of Scriptaculous) and Amy Hoy. It was wünderbar but I may have had a bit too much booze. Anyway, I am at a crossroads right now with PHP. I know it is powerful and it can acomplish all of the tasks that I want to accomplish but… I kind of fell into PHP, I didn’t choose it. I want my power back.
I had narrowed it down between Python and Ruby. I tried to look for code examples to compare the two, but I couldn’t understand them. I read blog entries about who should choose which and most of them were talking about how if you are this way with PERL or that way with C# you should go with x. Didn’t help at all.
I asked Amy at the Javascript meeting which language I should pick. She admitted to her bias and told me the reasons that Ruby was awesome. She also recommended a book that I can’t put down Beginning Ruby. It is the best programming book I have seen. He really speaks to me, the intermediate programmer. I love it!
The language is fun. Really fun. It feels rounder, where PHP always has felt kind of boxy. The objects feel like little different colored legos.
I hope to start a series of Ruby Design Patterns with some awesome examples. I will try hard not to steal stuff.