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Yahoo, powerpoints, and presentations on slideshare
I’ve been finding Yahoo is a very ppt deck centric company. People will say “send me the report” and what they really mean is “send me the slide deck”, because, well, that is the report. I have mixed feelings about the impact the paperless office is having on how we share information. It is certainly the [...]
Shelly’s Working at Yahoo!
Well, the big news is I have taken a job at Yahoo as a senior researcher in social media (sitting with applications teams). It was a really tough decision, but with the recession independent consulting projects were hard to find, so I decided it was time to find a get a “real” job.
My new buddies are all the Yahoo [...]
Pics from Frayed Wire
Frayed Wire went great! I had so much fun, even though I was running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off (I was producing the event…). It’s an amazing experience, to be in a room FULL of technologists who are also artists and vice versa.
I posted some frayed wire pictures on flickr here.
Introductory slides [...]
Never drunk email again
Googles mail goggles
Git with Piston
Piston is rad. It lets you import other svn tree’s into a tree of your own and manage updates over time without have to deal with the hassle of all the version, import and update gymnastics.
There seem to be a growing number of projects that are being primarily developed on git so having git support [...]
Disable deploying to your database server in Capistrano
Update: I found a better way, see below
I use Capistrano to not only manage deployment tasks, but also to do lots of data management and monitoring tasks. By default Capistrano will try to deploy your code to whatever server you have set to the :db role, and will try to run the migrations there too. [...]
Complex forms, mass assignment, and the “presenter”
I’m fed up with doing a bunch of complex model aggregation in my controllers. They are too bloated. Here’s a set of links I’m trying to make sense of as I decide what to do:
http://validatable.rubyforge.org/
http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/134685
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/02/ruby-forwardable-addition.html
http://www.brynary.com/2007/4/8/fluent-interface-for-ruby-delegation
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/11/moving-associated-creations-to-the-model
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_thread/thread/3c61e00916c365e5?pli=1
http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/7/19/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-models
Seems like if you can avoid building an extra Presenter model and keep everything in your Rails models you’re better off, [...]
