My Point of View

I’ve been reading the book Advanced Rails by Brad Ediger.

OneBody now has a real, bona fide blog of its own.

Just saw this in my referrer logs… You can search on Google for all occurrences except in a certain site.

Long title, I know.

Starting around mid- to late-2006, I started a little project for my church.

It seems the Gmail team has quietly slipped in a minor upgrade to the revolutionary and still yet after more than 3 years, best web email system I’ve ever seen.

I used Wordpress.com’s nifty domain mapping feature and moved my blog to its own domain.

You can script Microsoft Word using COM and the Ruby win32ole library.

The new Ubuntu rocks, let me tell you.

There seems to be a general dissatisfaction with politics amongst people my age.

I’ve been seeing a lot on the Web about this guy named Ron Paul.

Zooomr is a little photo sharing site that has a wee bit of potential I think.

I just realized I’ve now had this blog for one year.

Have you ever been downloading something very large for a long time, and something happens to interrupt it?

Update: I’ve been using this for awhile now, and I still have to manually check my watchlist every day because my reader only gets updates every few days.

It occured to me that my gems of wisdom on my Snippets page likely go unnoticed by you faithful blog readers, so you might want to subscribe to my snippets feed as well so you don’t miss beauties like this (yes, I know this will seem lame to some, but I t…

Dvorak is spot on about the music industry: During the heyday of Napster and open free music sharing and trading, when million of people swapped songs, the CD business was booming.

My guess is Lost has lost many of its viewers in the last year due to a crawling storyline and endless questions without answers.

This is my reason for getting one: You're addicted to signing up to account-requiring websites the moment they're released just so no one else takes your usual username.

Greg Pittman, the preaching minister at my church, now has a blog.

As we tend to do every couple years, Jennie and I have once again overhauled the website of Cedar Ridge Christian Church, our church home in Broken Arrow, OK.

… Tag them with the word “breast.”

Not that I would really know, but I’d imagine hard drugs couldn’t be much more addictive than Facebook.

I’m still running Hpy, a place to list things that make you happy.

I host a few low-traffic websites out of my house.

My favorite programming language had a bit of a facelift.

Jeremy Ruston and Bob McElrath have taken over development of ZiddlyWiki.

All those Web 2.0 logos are starting to look the same… so some guy went and created an app that generates them automatically…

Update: Version 2 is available here.Today, I finally got fed up with Wikipedia’s lack of watchlist feeds, so I wrote a script that generates them.

In my quest to make everything into a feed… I present the Code Snippet Comments feed.

I needed a version of Lightbox that handled real web page urls instead of just images, so I hacked it myself.

Here's a phenomenon that really peeves me.

Update: The community has stepped up to take over development of ZiddlyWiki.

I haven’t actually done anything with the new Mac, but I’ve sure had fun doing it!

I’m writing this post from my brand spanking new MacBook Pro.

Seems everybody who’s anybody these days is “switching” from one platform to another.

My coworker Joseph put this together.

Today was officially proclaimed "Stephen and Tim day" because of all our work lately on integrating our systems with the state of Oklahoma.

It’s official: I’m a sucker.

We just started using an email filtering service at Cedar Ridge.

I have an ongoing experiment in which I never empty my Spam folder in Gmail.

Interesting campaign, but surely they're not implying the BSOD only happens on non-pirated Windows software, are they?

I don’t know how many people are switching from Python to Ruby these days, but I’ve learned a bit and thought it would be helpful to a few people if I cross-referenced my Python knowledge to my (growing) Ruby knowledge.

Here's my Ten Rails Tips, expanded a bit to try to explain my thinking… Scaffolding won't write your app for you, otherwise DHH would have called it "foundationing".

Everyday, I find yet a bit more to love about Ruby…Hmmm, surely there's a method to update bla bla… >> some_object.methods.grep /update/=> ["update_attributes", "after_update", …] Sweet!

I gave a talk tonight at the quarterly Oklahoma Ruby User Group meeting in Edmond.

From now on, I'd appreciate it if you'd call me by my real name above.

43 Verses now offers six translations instead of just one!

43 Verses now offers a few of the verse lists (the recent page and individual users' pages) as feeds so you can keep up with the goings-on from your favorite news reader.

I finally got around to redesigning 43 Verses a bit :-).