Jerry Cheung

I've been asked about subversion enough times to justify writing this quick and dirty article to save me future time.

One feature we're releasing for this sprint is a quick access menu on every page for the common day-to-day actions used in Coupa.

After my evening jog, I hopped onto the QA environment around 11pm because I wanted to look something up for another blog post I was writing.

When I started learning Rails, I was amazed when all kinds of magical things started working.

Joy and churchbells this morning here in sunny San Mateo!

Contrary to what you might think, I think insomnia's fantastic.

I'm warming up to the idea of using small webapps that do less.

Here is the setup I wanted with Capistrano with my housing app.

Carrying over from weekend cleanup, I started exploring the different deployment options available.

I spent the weekend migrating from my shared hosting at Dreamhost over to VPS hosting at SilverRack.

At some point in tinkering with a language, you outgrow simple scripts and want to organize your code into separate modules that live in separate files.

Originally, this post was titled 'Ruby Markdown Implementations' and I was going to talk about alternatives to BlueCloth.

I've been happily using my own ghetto blog I named Flaco Blog.

... is awesome.

Just a quick cheatsheet of how to get around in Info mode in Emacs. n,p - next previous nodes u - up a node m - menu items (things that start with *) f - cross references (things underlined) m?

I've been using constantize to turn strings into Class objects.

One of my favorite plugins I've seen so far is acts_as_state_machine.

Today at work, I sat in my first planning poker meeting.

I did something bad today.

After a complete Saturday of vegging out, I decided to accomplish something today.

When you first start testing a newly created application, fixtures might seem very appealing.

The day after I came back from Australia, I started my new job at Coupa Software.

I kept some rants and notes to myself a while back about what I thought about some of the operating systems I've used and currently use.

I really couldn't help myself with this one.

My first exposure to Perl was near the end of high school when I was working as a computer assistant at the USDA Forest Service.

I really enjoyed my introductory operating systems class at Berkeley.

Earlier, I wrote a quick into of how to customize your emacs, but then I realized that I had no running list of cool emacs tricks.

I have started, abandoned, and restarted many pet rails projects.

I've fallen victim to it a few times now and would like to remind myself of the causes and consequences.

Since high school, I've used word processors less and less.

My editor of choice is eight megs and constantly swapping.

It happens to all developers.

These aren't organized in any way for now.

Everytime I set up a Rails project, there are many braindead steps that need to be followed.

Spring is in the air, but instead of allergies, I'm seeing my peers being hit hard by job anxieties.

A while back I was chatting to Arthur and bitching about all the various blog systems.

Debugging is like a video game.