http://mike.kruckenberg.com/ Thoughts on technology, recreation, society, etc en-us Copyright 2011 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:11:04 -0500 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:59:22 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=5.031 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I've gotten a Zune connected to an iPod/iPhone dock in the past, but what seems more compelling these days with the rise of Android is to make an adapter or a cable to get a micro USB device to an... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/09/andriod_to_ipodiphone_dock_adapter_cable.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/09/andriod_to_ipodiphone_dock_adapter_cable.html Recreation Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:11:04 -0500 The Ruby on Rails app I'm building from the ground up needs to be able to handle *lots* of data. From the get-go I've known I'd need to put some kind of data partitioning to make this thing scale, but... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/07/ruby_on_rails_3_octopus_and_sharding_with_groups.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/07/ruby_on_rails_3_octopus_and_sharding_with_groups.html Technology Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:27:14 -0500 Listening to Chad Dickerson (CTO at Etsy) speaking about optimizing for developer happiness at RailsConf 2011. Etsy releases software 25 times a day with 75 engineers. They emphasize constant progress with a radical decentralization. It shouldn't work, but they are... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/developer_happiness_at_etsy.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/developer_happiness_at_etsy.html Technology Thu, 19 May 2011 15:03:25 -0500 Fantastic closing keynote by Glenn Vanderburg at RailsConf 2011 about software engineering. Great ideas about software engineering and how it compares to classical engineering disciplines (civil, structural, industrial, mechanical, electrical, traffic, etc). Compares the definition and process of structural engineering... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/glenn_vanderburg_on_building_software.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/glenn_vanderburg_on_building_software.html Technology Thu, 19 May 2011 14:43:18 -0500 In the RailsConf 2011 RubyGems presentation this afternoon, Nick Quaranto spent some time talking about versioning software, showing the versioning of TeX as kind of crazy where they use PI, adding a new digit of PI on the end of... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/software_version_numbers.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/software_version_numbers.html Technology Thu, 19 May 2011 13:40:31 -0500 If the value of a baseball ticket is measured in hours spent in the park, I definitely got my money's worth last night. Baltimore Orioles vs New York Yankees, 15 innings, Orioles lose it in the 15th after having many... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/at_camden_yards.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/at_camden_yards.html Recreation Thu, 19 May 2011 09:46:52 -0500 Great keynote this morning at RailsConf 2011 from LivingSocial's Aaron Batalion. Favorite thought: be nervouse or your aren't trying hard enough. Aaron says the right way to go at a new idea is to make decisions that make you nervous,... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/livingsocials_aaron_batalion.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/livingsocials_aaron_batalion.html Technology Thu, 19 May 2011 08:29:28 -0500 After two months of building my Rails app working on remote servers, I'm sick of always having to SSH in and use a server-side text editor to work. Not to mention that any time I move the laptop I've got... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/rails_3_gemfile_installing_postgresql_on_os_x.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/rails_3_gemfile_installing_postgresql_on_os_x.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 15:45:24 -0500 Listening to Andre Arko at RailsConf 2011 talking about Bundler. Bundler exists to make running your app consistent, repeatable, and guaranteed. Bundler doesn't let you use a gem unless it's in the Gemfile. Gemfile.lock keeps track of which version of... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_deploying_with_bundler.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_deploying_with_bundler.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 13:59:08 -0500 Listening to Chris Eppstein at RailsConf 2011 this morning talk about Sass., a technology for making CSS stylesheets more robust with preprocessing. Rational, problems it solves, syntax, best practices. What is Sass? Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets, a stylesheet generator. CSS is... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_the_future_of_stylesheets_with_sass.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_the_future_of_stylesheets_with_sass.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 09:49:00 -0500 Listening to Jeff Casimir from JumpstartLabs at RailsConf 2011 talking about practices in Rails, skinny controllers and fat models. Jamis Buck started the idea of fat models. Originally when rails was getting going tons of stuff was going into the... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_fat_models_arent_enough.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_fat_models_arent_enough.html Technology Tue, 17 May 2011 09:54:48 -0500 At RailsConf 2011 this morning, after conference welcome, logistics updates, and a video about donorschoose.org, the keynote speaker is David Heinemeier Hansson. After the DHH presentation. Yes, folks are excited for Rails 3.1.... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_tuesday_morning_keynote.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_tuesday_morning_keynote.html Technology Tue, 17 May 2011 08:04:26 -0500 This afternoon I'm at RailsConf 2011 listening to a bunch of the Envy Labs guys talk about best practices in rails. Excited for this tutorial because I've used rails long enough now that there's a bunch more to know than... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_rails_best_practices.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_rails_best_practices.html Mon, 16 May 2011 12:37:48 -0500 I'm at RailsConf 2011 this morning, listening to a bunch of guys from envy labs doing an introductory course to Ruby on Rails. I've dug in deep on Ruby on Rails for a month now, this might be a bit... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_rails_for_zombies.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/railsconf_2011_rails_for_zombies.html Technology Mon, 16 May 2011 08:02:27 -0500 I'm working on a new web app for internal use at my company, from the ground up with Ruby on Rails. One thing that has emerged as a critical component; having database records timestamped with more granularity than seconds. The... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/ruby_on_rails_datetime_records_with_microseconds.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2011/05/ruby_on_rails_datetime_records_with_microseconds.html Technology Wed, 11 May 2011 12:06:30 -0500