Quixotic Bravado by Josh Babetski

• My twittering is largely based on momentum, it being down: oh well. I’ve read some other posts saying same. Real issue for twitter.

• Last night I figured out and set-up Git repositories on my dev machines. Distributed version control FTW!
• Calling on UI devs: What JS libraries are you using in your projects and why? Answers in 140 characters or less.
• @thorpus You get a car? I have a local cab driver I can recommend: Mario. He’s the only guy we call for a cab when in Chitown.
• In an all-day video conference meeting. Brought some snacks, bottled water — got my laptop. Forgot beer and my pants though.

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• WhatTheFont : MyFonts Upload images to get the font used in it.
• Version test for Adobe Flash Player Pulls up additional information about current version of installed Flash.
• 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
• %w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Moving over to Git
• Git Quick Reference
• fairleads: Rails 2.0 and Scaffolding Step by Step
• bleything.blog(:stuff) DRY out your database.yml Good notes on keeping files manageable.
• Using Passenger on OSX for Rails development · Fingertips Step-by-step on using mod_rails on apache.
• 28 mod_rails / Passenger Resources To Help You Deploy Rails Applications Faster

• watching @tracibabe on the wii fit. Sooo entertaining!
• API team spent week playing “How does She Know” clips from “Enchanted” and dancing in the aisles at office. Now the song’s stuck in my head!
• @HIRH Yes watching @tracibabe hula hoop on the Fit was fun. She stopped when I asked her to change into a go-go outfit & I went to get $1s.

• Powerpoint is an evil, evil thing. That is all.
• Everything old is new again: grids are the new lightboxes. Heard it here first.
• There’s nothing a community enjoys rallying around more than a created common enemy. It’s inevitable that occasionally it’s the comm. host.

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) - Part 1 of n « YAB
• Pixar?s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM
• Julius Eckert - Projects Quicksilver Interface plugin - SilverFlow

• For all the spec about a iPhone v2 being “available” in June, wouldn’t there be an FCC filing by now? @gruber? anyone?
• Dear scruffy landscaping dude: Seriously! What made you think you could waltz up to my 110lb, highly-protective rotty in my yard? Dumbass.
• @kplawver Don’t be hatin’ on the PHP dude.
• I’m currently stalling because I need to do two weeks worth of expense reports and it’s a PiTA to enter everything.

• @AprilRox classified ads? You mean for newspapers, that antiqued news communication mechanism used before the Internet. They still around?
• Why do PR flacks and headhunters start every email with “I hope you are well?” It’s as genuine as starting a convo with “how’s the weather?”

• Illin’ My mom would characterize my current state as "death warmed over."
• I went to cancel all of my meetings for today and found that I had none. Kind of takes the fun out of it.
• @icelander Fortunately, I don’t think it’s that, would have kicked in already. Frightening how bad geek-hygiene can be though.