Dead Programmer Society

There I was this morning in a state of almost perfect sensory deprivation, by which I mean scrolling thru social media, when all at once an extraordinary thing happened: I noticed something!

Lately, all of the cool kids seem to be doing something with the newest protocol on the block, Model Context Protocol.

New term we just discovered this morning: “Buzz Factor” “Buzz Factor is how many buzzwords have to fall out of popularity for your system architecture to require a redesign.”

I just realized the odd parallels between a “fish story” and “story point estimation”.

Every so often, HyperCard pops up again in one of my feeds.

Coming up at the end of next month it is Gophercon EU once again in Berlin. https://gophercon.eu/ Our Go/TinyGo hardware hacking session will be all day Tuesday, June 27 in the same attached biergarten as last year.

The “Dead Programmer Society” blog is finally moved onto a proper static web site using Hugo.

Gobot v2.0 has been released!

After taking so much time off of any serious blogging (there might have been a guest post or two somewhere), I’m finally starting to feel the urge again to write something longer than 140 characters.

Yo, Gabba!

This last week was the fantastic RubyConf X.

Once again, it is Lady Ada Lovelace day, and time for me to celebrate some women software developers that I know personally.

This last weekend, we completed migration of a slightly more complex Ruby on Rails application than the usual to Engine Yard’s EY-Cloud.

Longtime readers of this blog know that I can really get into writing about Ruby conferences, and I had a great time this last weekend at LARubyConf 2010.

I had first heard of the PhoneGap open source framework for multiplatform mobile development last year at the FutureRuby conference in Toronto.

Recently, I added some sparkline graphs to a Ruby on Rails application.

It has been an amazing year for both personal and professional code development.

As usual, no blog posts = a lot of other activity here at Flying Robot HQ.

This post continues what I started with “PostgreSQL on Ubuntu on EC2: The Installation Guide”.

I was shocked to discover this morning that this is to be my 200th blog post.

For some time, I have had clients hosting a couple different applications on Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu.

FutureRuby Day 2 began in a seemingly calm and reflective way.

It was with tremendous excitement that my brother Damen and I had arrived in Toronto for FutureRuby.

I just realized it has been an entire month since my last post.

As Maker Faire approached, my brother Damen and I were very busy working on something cool: support for the now-shipping Blimpduino kit!

We were around Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold… wait, that was someone else’s story.

Well, just a very short time after I started using Heroku, they went commercial.

I have been wanting to upgrade the hardware used in our Dorkboards for flying_robot, from the ATMega168, to the newer better faster ATMega328.

Last night, I finally got around to deploying something on Heroku, an interesting service founded by my formerly LA-based Ruby programming chums Adam Wiggins, James Lindenbaum, and Orion Henry.

As the 2009 Los Angeles Ruby Conference (LARubyConf) drew to a close, our keynote speaker Jim Weirich took the podium.

I was very happy when the next presenter at the Los Angeles Ruby Conference 2009 (LARubyConf) was Blake Mizerany, creator of the very cool Ruby micro-framework Sinatra.

I had no idea what I was about to experience at Los Angeles Ruby Conference 2009 (LARubyConf) when Danny Blitz took the podium as the next presenter.

The next session at the 2009 Los Angeles Ruby Conference (LARubyConf) was Jeremy Evans presenting Sequel, which is a very powerful database toolkit for Ruby.

The second presentation of the day at Los Angeles Ruby Conference 2009 (LARubyConf) was Aaron Patterson, XML maniac.

Lead-off man Dan Yoder started off the day’s proceedings at the Los Angeles Ruby Conference (LARubyConf) 2009, with a presentation on Ruby Waves called “Resource Oriented Architectures and Why It Matters”.

Yesterday was the first ever Los Angeles Ruby Conference.

I just had a small realization: there is a perfect ratio for Twitter use.

It is Ada Lovelace Day today, and to support the women in technology, bloggers all over the world are celebrating the female side of tech.

At long last, after many obstacles to be surmounted, yesterday we achieved liftoff.

Yes, the rumors are true, our talk for LARubyConf was accepted.

We had made incredible strides forward in our construction of “Rogue 1” our autonomous blimp that we are building as the first implementation of flying_robot, our Arduino-framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based on top of Ruby Arduino Development (RAD…

Our flying_robot project for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has been underway for a few weeks now.

I do not often pay full attention to Giles Bowkett.

As we proceeded along with our flying_robot project, one thing became abundantly clear: weight matters.

I just noticed that there are already a whole bunch of the approved presentations for RailsConf 2009 on up the web site here.

Last weekend was a fantastic hardware/software jam session with my brother Damen, working on our autonomous Ruby Arduino Development (RAD) powered blimp.

I will be running the music BOF at RailsConf 2009 in Las Vegas.

I read Jamis Buck’s posting late last night, about how he was retiring from involvement with Capistrano, Net:SSH and a few other closely related projects.

It has been very overdue to get Frankie updated to work with the latest versions of Sinatra and Facebooker.

We have been making some amazing progress on our flying_robot project.