Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 162

I’ve gradually become happier and happier with Ruby on Rails. I’ve got mostly past the constant “WTF?WTF?WTF?” phase that’s so frustrating when you try to understand the magic behind the scenes (after all, I like understanding what happens inside a framework - the bang and the bling are not what lured me into Rails).So I’ve tried to become a more idiomatic, more complete. In the last project I started, I decided to -gasp- stop declaring my schema structure in SQL, and use migrations instead. All fine until I reached migration 008… The first one including a table modification (adding a...

Following Liw’s initiative, yesterday night Nadezhda and me joined the distributed pancake party. With a nearby restaurant’s hotcakes, anyway, not as fresh or as great as they could, but you can still smell the spirit:(artwork by Nadezhda)And… Well, it was not until this morning that I checked on the Wiki just to discover that Damog took part of the same distributed party, just ~15km away from us. Shame - I had just met Damog that very morning at the University :)

It seems that I’ve held up -at least for half a year- what I stated back in January - I come by bike to work almost every day, and really enjoy the time spent on two wheels. My times have -of course- improved, as has my dominion of the bike - I make ~10 minutes each way (must be a bit more on my way to work than on my way back, as it is uphill). My city’s government seems to be seriously promoting people to consider using the bicycle as means for regular transport and not just as a...

Ok, I’m officially back. Yup, when you have a meeting just over your regular lunch time and are suddenly seen as the guy who will fix the institute’s video needs just because you worked manning cameras with the amazing DC7 video team, it just means you are back home. Lets see how several projects that have sprang up in the last couple of weeks (both at DebConf and at work) start materializing.Anyway… DebConf was great. Just great. This time I had time both to feel I was useful and productive (mainly doing video-related stuff, although on some other points as...

For some days at Debconf, I’ve been somewhat stressed and frustrated. You see, the first DebCamp/DebConf I took part in (Oslo), I was really productive - Besides meeting lots and lots of people and having a great time, during DebConf3 I learnt a scary lot about the project in many aspects and, although I was already a DD, it really decided me to get more involved. When we were at Brazil, I had a great time as well, but (code-wise, bugs-wise and so on) I was much less productive - I started peeking at the processes that involve running such...

Yesterday and today, I’ve spent most of the time sitting next to Damián Viano (des), feeling 1337 because we are doing exactly the heavily recommended pair-programming thingy with a Rails application that everybody in Debconf is familiar with: We are adding some stuff for our beloved video-team in Pentabarf! Now, Pentabarf is -as we were trying to explain earlier on, amidst angst and frustration- a strange beast: It looks like your regular Rails app. It smells like Rails. But it tastes like Java. For some reason, the Pentabarf author (who I sincerely expect to meet soon - yes, he is...

Ok, so here am I, just arrived to Debconf, surrounded by tens -soon to be hundreds- of Debianers. A big YAY! :D Comments Taur 2007-06-12 10:34:08 Re: Arrived! Que envidia :(, diviertete en mi nombre!!! :D Por cierto.. el próximo año.. me llevas contigo?? jejejejeje Saludos ;)

Yesterday we had one of our first full-evening rains of this Summer. It started raining around 15:00, and didn’t really stop until past 22:00. Most of the time, it was a low intensity rain. Also yesterday, Sergio and I started with the Debian course I recently talked about - Fun!Now… This course is scheduled at Instituto de Astronomía, which is halfway between my work and my home. 19:00 to 21:00.I decided to leave early, so we could check some pending details - At 18:00. I biked to Astronomía, about 1.5km. When I arrived, I was as wet as you usually...

At my Institute, we get the El Financiero newspaper - I like it quite a bit. It’s very well balanced, with opinions from all of the political and economical points of view. Of course, it has huge business and market sections which I don’t usually even care on looking at, as I won’t understand much anyway. Those sections usually include advertisements for potential courses and businesses.Today, Nadezhda showed me an ad that’s just beautiful - It shows off the level of commitment and seriousness a company has. It is so beautiful that it deserves me copying it in Spanish and...

Thanks to Planeta Debian (yes, planeta, the Spanish version of Planet Debian), I came across this Darío Rapisardi’s post. Sometimes poetry can be expressed in human-interface guidelines.