My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
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.
Aimee had her baby this morning. The baby is healthy and well and weighs 6lbs 1 oz. Thanks to Anita for the update! The little one doesn’t have a name yet but when she gets one, I’ll update the post. Congratulations Aimee Sue! Your journey is just beginning! Update: The baby’s name is Zoe Jean!
Adam, Mike and I are participating in Rails Day 2006, a 24 hour coding marathon where the object is to develop an application in a single day, from start to finish. There are lots of great prizes to win and lots to learn. All of the submitted code will be opened to the public so even if you don’t participate there’s still something to gain. Our team name is “Those Guys that Write Code“.
What a great day. It was a lot of fun to spend the day with friends and family. We did some grilling and I played crouquet with Ana (she did really well!) The weather was really nice but as soon as we all sat down to eat, everyone started to get pretty warm. People slowly moved into the house to cool off. It was nice to see everyone. I did miss Mom a lot though.
May is a difficult month. Mothers’ day and Mom’s birthday are both this month. I felt pretty crappy all day on Mothers’ day. Carissa’s birthday was the 16th and we had a small cookout to celebrate. Mom’s birthday came and went; it was easier than I thought. I think that Christmas will be harder.