http://www.lukemelia.com Thoughts from software developer from New York City who attempts to live every day with passion. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gotham Ruby Conference was yesterday at Pace University. It was a great day - kudos to the organizers. If you missed it, check out the video from Confreaks when it is posted. UPDATE: A few more conference pics, courtesy of Sebastian, including some of the afterparty/hackfest, where Jeanhee & Chiara came ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/04/27/my-badge-from-gotham-ruby-conference-2008/ After listening to Ryan Davis' inspiring talk, "Hurting Code for Fun & Profit" at GoRuCo today, I wrote this rake task to figure out what code to hurt. It looks though your git log, and takes the 15 .rb files in your Rails' app/ directory and runs them through flog, ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/04/26/finding-code-to-hurt/ lmelia$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 184 git 122 script/story 64 rake 26 sudo 12 dig 11 cap 9 script/rstakeout 9 sc 8 ./script/story 5 history http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/04/22/the-not-so-interesting-life-of-my-terminal/ The startup I work for, weplay, opened our beta to the public on Tuesday night, just a few hours ahead of a New York Times article about us. It's been an insane couple of weeks leading up to this launch, and I'm happy it's behind me, though it was fun ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/03/27/weplaycom-has-launched/ We released Tracks 1.5 today. Tracks is the open source Rails app for implementing the Getting Things Done system. I contributed heavily to this app in the too-long time since the last stable release. Big kudos and thanks go to Reinier Balt in the Netherlands, who contributed some great statistical ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/03/27/tracks-15-is-out/ Remembering all those capistrano tasks can be tough for the sleep-impaired startup employee.... Help yourself out with this autocomplete script: [ruby] #!/usr/bin/env ruby # Save this somewhere, chmod 755 it, then add # complete -C path/to/this/script -o default cap # to your ~/.bashrc # # If you update your tasks, just $ rm ~/.captabs* # exit 0 ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/03/10/capistrano-task-autocompletion-for-bash/ It was my year to cook Valentine's Day dinner this year. Working web startup hours meant I couldn't be as ambitious as in years past, but I tried to make up for it with creative presentation. And an artichoke theme(!). The menu: * A garden love plate, with avocado, red pepper ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/02/15/valentines-dinner-2008/ I'm not too into these blog memes, but I like Mike Moore, who "passed the pain" to me in his own What I Do post. My Day Job I recently left my job of almost 8 years at Oxygen, the cable television network for women. I'll quote and hack apart my goodbye ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2008/01/06/what-i-do-a-meme-perpetuated/ I just released pdf-storycards 0.0.1, my first gem! Thanks to Ryan Davis for hoe, which made it a much easier process, and to Jacob Harris & Geoffrey Grosenbach for teaching me how to use hoe in their PDF and blog post respectively. pdf-storycards version 0.0.1 has been released! * ## DESCRIPTION: ... http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2007/12/29/pdf-storycards-001-released-my-first-gem/ Gotham Ruby Conference (aka GoRuCo) 2008 will be held on April 26th, 2008 at Pace University in Manhattan. It was a great crowd and a great day last year, and I'm looking forward to this next one. Hope to see you there! http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2007/12/10/save-the-date-for-goruco-2008/