Latest News >> 2008-11-21

I love Why The Lucky Stiff and his crazy creative ways. His latest post about me and how nice The Ruby Community really is gave me chills. The great _why is actually mentioning me! I mean, sure he’s dissing me without really dissing me so that he can be an asshole while still being nice, but I got a mention on his blog!

2008-11-13

Well, DHH seems to be caught in a lie in his latest blog post on Rails myths so I feel I should correct it. An outright lie that Mongrel caused his 400 restarts/day problem. However, David must have forgotten that I have a full log of the chat where he admitted it, so let’s get into some nice clean truth for a change.

2008-11-11

I’m quickly coming to the end of my first semester in music school and am considering taking a consulting gig for the two month break we have. Not really sure what’s available these days, as I actually haven’t touched a computer for the entire semester.

2008-10-30

In this world there are these weird little dickheads who think that they have some kind of magical powers manipulating others to do their bidding. They spend their days making people around them dance like marionettes in a sick little play that only they find funny. The sad truth about manipulators is their machinations are only powerful and effective in their own mind.

FU is turning out to be a fun as fuck project to work on. I think the gear needed for people to communicate is nearly complete. Here’s what we got:

  • Mailing lists
  • Mailing list archives with several of the locals already with good starter memberships. Boston=8, NYC=16, Toronto=3, San Francisco=3, Atlanta=2.
  • Very active IRC channel with tons of crazy chatter. While a lot of it is seemingly off-topic, it shows everyone is itching to get going.
  • Boston and NYC are planning short meetings tonight.
  • Boston and NYC are planning their first newbie show for September 3rd.
  • People from Toronto are talking about flying in for the NYC show.
  • Every local can have its own mailing list, just ask.
  • A full MoinMoin wiki for everyone to collaborate on their ideas and locals. There’s already several locals with complete pages. Yes it’s password protected. Any list password you have will get you in.
  • A total of 150 subscribers to the converse list

This is going very well too. The choice to use simple tech of just a basic site, a mailing list system, IRC, and now a wiki has been crucial.

I think another thing that’s happened is, because the site is on its own domain and doesn’t use services from other vendors, people feel that it’s more for them. I’m starting to formulate this idea that when a group puts their mailing list on say yahoo or google they kind of dilute the group’s identity.

We’re now going to start working on the podcast system. If anyone has suggestions on good podcast practices let me know.