My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
I spend a lot of time working with the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework. There was a huge security vulnerability announced today and we were all told to apply the patch. Unfortunately we weren’t told exactly why, or what the vulnerability is. Many of us have looked at the source code and figured it out. Looks like the storm is over. The core team has patched the holes and most people are safe.
The plan was that Erich, Josh, and Carissa were going to all get up early and go decorate the reception hall at the golf course while I stayed back with the kids. Everything was going according to plan until Erich’s car got a flat tire. This just keeps getting better. Did I mention the part about the ring? He left her ring in his car at the hotel, so that’s one more stop that needs to be made.
Josh’s car broke down right before the rehearsal so he hasn’t gotten his tux yet. Mine fit but his dad’s pants needed alteration. Erich picked his up but he may need some modifications to his jacket. We didn’t get the rehearsal started until about a half-hour later and we were an hour late for the reservation at the restaurant. At least they didn’t give away our tables!
Josh organized a golf outing yesterday for anyone who was interested. We went to Wild Ridge and had a decent time despite some rather rude behavior by a certain member of the staff. I didn’t golf but I did zoom around all day in the cart. That was kinda fun, and it gave Josh a chance to relax a bit. Pictures are in the gallery.
Carissa and I went up to visit Dad yesterday. He’s doing a lot better these days. I spent a bit of time there helping him hook up some AV components so he could watch DVDs without having to jump through a lot of hoops. We then installed some more memory into his computer. Then we did some sorting of Mom’s things. That was pretty hard on everyone. We did find some cool things though, such as my baby book and my mom’s kaleidoscope.
We made it through the contest! Mike, Adam, and I submitted our final change to our program after running into some nasty last minute problems. There’s always so much to fix. I’m truly amazed at what this programming framework can do. We accomplished more in 24 hours than many people hope to accomplish in a month’s time. The three of us hammered out a fairly nice event and expense tracker. Adam and Mike would like to see it go somewhere.
We’re still going… although we’re getting slower. We’ve hit a lot of snags today because we want to implement a cool feature in our program that we really struggled with. Mike just managed to figure it out though so we’re going to hook it up.
We’re kickin’ along with only about 2 hours of sleep. We just hit a snag when our power went out for some reason. Probably too much computer stuff going on in one room. We’re making some good progress after getting caught up earlier this morning.
We’re into our third hour of Rails Day. So far we’ve hit a few snags and had to write some things over, but we’re making decent progress. It’s a lot of fun. There’s a lot of excitement going on in the community right now. Everyone seems to be having a great time. We also settled on a name…. ActionTracker. Check our status out at http://spectate.railsday2006.com/changesets/teams/26/
I’ve been asked by the talented Ezra Zygmuntowicz to write a chapter for his upcoming book for Pragmatic Programmers. The book is all about deploying Rails applications on Windows servers. It’s going to be pretty boring unless youre a system administrator or a software programmer, so most of you who read this won’t care. It’s still pretty neat to be able to contribute. I have submitted my outline and am going to take a day off of work tomorrow to do some writing.