Ray and I built a nifty little app for RailsDay, and you can see it live at cuppin.com.
What is cupping? From the FAQ: Cupping is to coffee what tasting is to wine. The app is a tool for coffee afficianados to track their favorite coffees and find new ones to try.
What is RailsDay? It's a 24 hour coding competition. We build Cuppin' from scratch in 24 hours — all of the software, all of the graphics, everything. If you're curious to see and read about what we did, check out our project blog at cuppin.wordpress.com.
What's next? We'll see! The judges will be busy judging the apps for the next few weeks, and other folks will be putting their sites online for the public to demo.
So, cheers to all of the other participants out there, and happy Fathers Day!
Ten years and 18 editions later, The Pages o’ Peat get (yet another) face lift. After the last six months of wrangling sloppy software, I’ve decided to take my blog to the fine folks at WordPress. It looks great, it’s solid, and the tools for managing content are pretty darned fabulous.
In honor of this event, I’m going to be scouring the Wayback Machine for previous editions of The Pages, starting when I first aquired peat.org.
So — hats off to the WordPress team, and here’s to another ten years of sporadically posted and marginally entertaining content!
Cheers!
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I’ve backfilled a lot of the Hong Kong and New Zealand posts, and I even managed to dig up the first ever peat.org post from May of 1999 … back before blogging was blogging. Damn. I feel old school.
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Ten Years and Counting: The Wayback Machine has a copy of one of my original web pages from 1996. This is almost embarasing. Almost. Heh. You can even read about my pet fish, and my AWESOME collection of links from the stone ages of the web.
In about 7 hours RailsDay 2006 kicks off — 24 hours of hot Ruby on Rails development, design, and sleep deprivation. It doesn't get much better then that!
I'm part of the Needmore Coffee team this year, and we're building an app called "Cuppin." We'll be posting photos to Flickr and blogging our at the Cuppin' Blog.
I have good luck with computers — most of the time.
This time, Ghidorah (the MacBook) is now on it's third revision. The first one was having strange battery troubles and wouldn't hold a color profile; the second one was D.O.A. with a busted keyboard; and now, the third … well, we'll see.
That said, I had a pretty easy time with the folks at the Washington Square Apple Store. Instead of making me wait for maintenance, they've given me a fresh new laptop after diagnosing the issues, so I've had that "Ohh! New Laptop!" experience three times in the last few days. It's been glorious, except for brief interludes of cursing bad hardware.
My only beef is that they tried to upsell me to a MacBook Pro when I mentioned the color profile issues. Also, it seems strange that they don't have a good color calibration rig in the store. With so many professionals depending on color correct displays from Apple, it seems like they could make a tidy sum offering a color profiling service.
Anyhow, I think we're back in action.
The last six months have been pretty rough for The Pages o’ Peat. I’ve been through enough blogging software to choke a horse, including some of my own concoctions … and here I am, trying something else. This time, it’s a hosted blog at WordPress.com.
I wasn’t a fan of WordPress until 1.5 came out a while back. Now they’ve moved on to 2.0 … and it’s a heck of an improvement. The backend is graceful and friendly, and the front end templates are a lot easier to manage.
Anyhow, I’ll continue to dig at this thing for a while and see if it sticks. Hopefully I’ll be able to copy in older posts as well.
