- fiddlesticks, new I should have turned from a/c to heat in the office before I left on friday. a might chilly, brr. #
- giggling over website with browser requirements: Netscape Navigator 3.0, MS Internet Explorer 3.02, or AOL 3.0; that is still live. #
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Dave Matthews Band (54), Panic! At the Disco (42) & Hugh Laurie (41) #tweeklyfm http://t.co/GrShTXUw #
- Congrats to Ryan for a solid Syracuse Ironman showing. http://t.co/bPNWuN02 #
- Walking to the dr is more time efficent than moving the car between garages. #
- ok. its not just me. argh… android pictures not showing up in gallery http://t.co/BXMHrY6s #
- trying to unwind with a tasty Saranac Black Forest. #
- finally got some motivation and got out for a 6.5 miler earlier. felt pretty good. #
- oh goodie, construction has the road closed right outside the office door. #
- tracking down assorted accounting snafus. the fun never ends in the Crowther house. #
- Trike Racing – Fast and the Furious http://t.co/Nyf8jDmx #
- I just got a $2 credit for Android apps from the @amazonappstore. Click http://t.co/hfz6l6P3 to get yours. #get2 #
- 'Nevermind' At 20: Producer Butch Vig On Nirvana http://n.pr/qjHv5B thx. @gmorten1 #
- Breast Cancer Awareness 2011 http://t.co/KyKA9r9c #
- minor heart attack when macbook makes bizzaro noise in the middle of a firmware update reboot. seems to be all good now. phew. #
- used Pages for the first time. I think I could get used to its nice full screen, minimal distraction mode. #
- you have a great friday, too, person who flipped me off while cutting me off on thompson road this morning. #pleaselearnhowtodrive #
- groceries got, lawn mowed, gutters cleared, almost time for a Saranac #
- Guess all that juice in the car wasn't a good idea. While unloading the jingles, she unloaded all over me, moms car, and the garage floor #
- Unexpected fireworks in my backyard. Too bad the trees between us and lemoyne are too tall. #
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Updated Bingo Tech
As mentioned in the last post, I brought my little baby arrival betting app. While the general idea is the same as the version that I made for Jilly (aka Critter), I rewrote most of the code to experiment with some newer technologies. Here’s some details:
- Switched framework from CGI::Application to Mojolicious. Not terribly different coding wise, but Mojo seems to be faster to develop in. It also runs persistent via FastCGI.
- Rather than winging ORM, I’m giving DBIx::Class a shot. Makes the easy stuff easier, but ran into learning curve trying to do harder stuff. All in all, I think I like it though.
- YUI for frontend. Cut over all the prototype, scriptaculous, and protip stuff. Added a bunch of widgets (carousel, dialogs, tabs).
- Fancy web fonts from Google.
- Twitter integration. When bets are placed tweets are posted automatically. Recent tweets are fetched and cached for display on the bingo main page. Net::Twitter::Lite helped a lot here.
I’ve still got a few more features in mind, if I can ever find some time to and energy to get around to implementing them. Stay tuned.
Project Pixel
For those not already in the know, the Mrs. and I are expecting again. You can follow all the action and wager when they’ll make the seen at pixel.thecrowthers.info. You can also subscribe to Pixel’s own twitter feed: @babypixelbingo.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Umphrey's McGee (35), Dave Matthews Band (24) & Black Eyed Peas (17) #tweeklyfm http://t.co/ud1oK8s #
- nice moon lit run this morning after a rough night with the wee-one. #
- Skeuomorph – the word of the day http://t.co/3LegWQe #
- enjoying some extra sunlight in the office after a visit from the window washers. headache to begin in 3, 2, 1… #
- shoot wanted to run again today but overslept. either clock radio fragged or dead air on 95x at 5am? #
- johnny cash todo: http://t.co/D09X0D4 #
- fun! time lapse of dmb stage setup and show http://t.co/EiMYcQjl #
- Organize anything, together w/ Trello http://t.co/LU2pED53 #
- crazy what trello can pull off in a browser! #
- mmm. #mojolicious gets a lot nicer when you figure out how to make helpers. oh, yea, that hits the spot. #
- if you like @KTTunstall and/or @OfficialAdele check out Florence + the Machine http://t.co/4dJyZ2Zb good stuff! #
- and so it begins. climate control flipped from cool to heat. #
- nothing I enjoy more than scrubbing cat puke out of carpet. still smells like a zoo in my home office. argh. #
- trying to see why people love #coffescript so much. its faster to type, but seeing a terrible amount of gain beyond that. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-11
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Dave Matthews Band (26), Pink Floyd (25) & David Gilmour (22) #tweeklyfm http://t.co/ud1oK8s #
- scoring all the boots from last weekends DMB caravan show. #
- Hmm the auto-orientation on my phone seems to be shot. Beginning to think all androids phones are junk… #
- When I want to get to work, the driver's village shuttle is awol. Foo. #
- wow, #failcrane strikes again. on a wednesday, no less. #
- shoot, maybe a hp tab for $99 wasn't a complete waste? #
- last minute wardrobe change necessitated by sippy cup missing the all important anti-spill valve. #
- relatively uneventful 6.5 miler this morning. fog was kinda crazy. considering headlamp acquisition. #
- looks like work is picking up on the sidewalks by the front door at work. productivity at desk to surrender. #
- do I really want to know why the ubuntu package for adobe acrobat reader weighs in at 60Mb? pdf rendering doesn't take any rocket science. #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-04
- nothing I like more than being sick on the weekend. feels like I got hit by a truck and 102.1F fever. awesome. #
- not much to report about hurricane remnants here. just rain and breeze. #
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds (36), The Black Keys (16) & Beastie Boys (15) #tweeklyfm http://t.co/ud1oK8s #
- why is this email taking so long to print out? oh, the default is to print the whole thread. thanks, gmail! #
- Thruway closed http://t.co/f1sncFM glad I don't need to back east right now. yikes! #
- I love it when a complicated bit of code runs right the first time through! #