Problem: I wrote this line of code to record whether a record contains an email address:
enabled = not contact.card.email.nil?
I don’t like the “! something” or “not something” syntax in this case, since it’s really far away from the question I’m asking: “is the email nil?” I thought about it for a moment, and [...]
Last night, fawnapril pointed out what a lovely evening it was, and that we should go out and enjoy it. So we went to a not-great Indian restaurant and then over to the Mission Theater, where we saw Jonathan Coulton. The audience was almost exclusively geeks, and we enjoyed an evening of sweet, [...]
…connected only by the fact that they’ve occurred in the last week:
Hobo is a damn good framework built on top of Rails.
Heroes is a damn good TV show. Actually, it’s more like one long 16-hour movie arbitrarily divided into 42-minute chunks.
Ack is a command-line replacement for doing “find -name pattern | xargs grep” voodoo. If nothing else, it’s a lot faster to type. ;> And, hey, it’s got a great ASCII logo of Bill the Cat. What more could you want?
New Kitty loves the shoes
Originally uploaded by fawnapril.
We adopted/were adopted by a new kitteh last weekend. We drove out to BFE where land is cheap enough for the Cat Adoption Team to occupy a huge warehouse-style building FULL OF CATS. And, as some of you well know, being around a few hundred cats [...]
“ungodly mating ritual”