Joel Oliveira

# Earlier tonight Adam Stacoviak posted something on his blog about the killer feature that is the ampersand in the Sass CSS meta-language.

# Take a look fast because I’m sure some (not all) of these won’t last long.

# Get a look fast – I have a feeling some of these might not exist at these URL’s for all that long (especially the PDF’s) Zach Holman – Double-Shipping Software for Profit Jeff Casimir – Fat Models Aren’t Enough Matt Parker – Readme Driven Development Jo…

# This one gave me fits for a little bit not too long ago, and crept up on the mongoid list the other day.

# After quite a bit of digging around, and a little help from mr.

# In a word – “Feedback”.

# As a relative newb’ to cucumber I realize there’s a lot to get caught up on.

# A production web / application server that I maintain has been around for mostly wordpress and static sites we host for some of our clients.

Finally took some time to jump in and refactor some nested forms at Thredded using Rails 2.3′s accepts_nested_attributes_for.

I’m pretty set in my ways professionally these days, so it’s hard sometimes to make a shift from what I’m comfortable with to a methodology that’s contrary to something that still works.

# Option 1 – Don’t do it.

# No, not without my clothes.

# These photos were taken one afternoon when I went to take the little Chubbster out to the courtyard.

Something I’ve held out on for a while now has been to switch over the settings for ActionMailer in my application(s) to point to my hosted Google apps account.

After searching for a plugin that might accommodate this in WordPress and coming up empty, I went digging for a possible easy way to do this with the means available.

Suffice it to say – it’s not a winning combination.

What a huge pain in the ass.

# Here’s something I lost hours to thanks to my own boneheaded mistake (I think I might have “lack of sleep” to blame for this one – in conjunction with ignorance).

# In getting up to speed with the new bells and whistles in Rails 2.0s RESTful routing capabilities I ran into something that puzzled me.

# I think I’m going to miss this place.

# Spent most of the day around the area, catching up with sleep after all that traveling, and hanging out with family.

# So far, so great.

# Was just pointed to an article at Wired about this: If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-…

# I have a strange love/hate relationship with our Wii.

# O HAI!

# There’s a really great post at this blog about how the writer, a developer named Ethan, was approached by some acquaintances with regard to a big idea they needed help in implementing.

# I’m in the process of building and theming the brand new bitbythebeautybug.com for Sara.

Over at Thredded I am still using Rails 1.2.3 (I’m a little gun-shy to upgrade to 2.0) and, of course, felt that slugged links were necessary for both search engine optimization and making things like assessing site analytics a little easier.

# … can be an immense pain in the toochis.

# With the amount of music I listen to while working it’s imperative that the eardphones I wear are comfortable, noise-canceling, of decent quality and easy to tuck away.

Last weekend Sara and I were in New York City, mostly for some events she wanted to attend that were sponsored by a blog network she’s part of.

Has it really been (well over) a year since I last posted a single thing on this weblog?

I’ve been holed up in my cave, growing a beard.