Simon St.Laurent (simonstl)

Simon St.Laurent

I've never been any good at hand-typing SQL, so this must be wrong, but results look completely right on first try. Huh. Must look harder.

Simon St.Laurent

funny how splitting on 'n' instead of \n' produces really freaky results. Fortunately I hit delete in just about the simplest possible regex

Simon St.Laurent

I would have taken that survey from a serious vendor EXCEPT it promised to enter my email address into an iPad raffle. Bad marketing sign.

Simon St.Laurent Norman Walsh

@ndw sorry, Norm! I'm afraid we live in scary times, but I'll seek out some more cheerful stories too.

Simon St.Laurent Norman Walsh

@ndw what kind of plant is it?

Simon St.Laurent

brain too fuzzy for code today, working on documentation. Easier debugging process, I hope.

Simon St.Laurent

Hate discovering that older code that worked well worked well accidentally.

Simon St.Laurent

Trying not to get too excited that my early modularization work behaves as planned - something will go wrong soon, I'm sure.

Simon St.Laurent

Leaving my laptop power adapter in Cambridge was really not smart. But it did lead to us visiting Syracuse Zoo today, so okay.

Simon St.Laurent

cutting bluestone with a hammer is slow but fun. Definitely excellent upper body exercise.

Simon St.Laurent

I want to set up 21st century electronic monitoring of my 19th century farming projects.

Simon St.Laurent

waiting for the ducks to go back in their pen so I can close their door and go to sleep.

Simon St.Laurent

very glad my stone-cutting hammer arrived. Will experiment on unsuspecting 2" bluestone tomorrow morning.

Simon St.Laurent Michael R. Bernstein

@webmaven the underlying jQTouch framework is MIT license, though, and I'm happy to talk.

Simon St.Laurent Michael R. Bernstein

@webmaven we haven't sorted out licensing for real yet, so the notices on the source are pretty restrictive. Hope that will change.

Simon St.Laurent

HTML5 & (X)HTML Reference - iPhone app I've been working on, beta over Web. Why: http://oreil.ly/9ancbR What: http://bit.ly/aZvyXa

Simon St.Laurent

of course, wasn't the only error - also hit previously unsolvable File not found: lib. Looks like I'll be doing Rails on Ubuntu, not Mac.

Simon St.Laurent

weirdest error I've seen in a while: Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text="<!-- HI -->" (Rails 3 RC2 install)

Simon St.Laurent

I guessed a programming task would take two hours - it took two hours to the minute. That hasn't happened in forever. Usually 1.5x-4x.

Simon St.Laurent

really needed this rainy day