CornMuffin

Software engineer, computer scientist, proud adherent to OO and test-driven, clean design, would-be opera conductor, father and husband

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@PrincessGryph My daughter is interested to get a brushable OC Snow Wishes. Please, may I ask about this?

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@bcardarella Yikes, yes.

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I have empathy for all single, working parents, except perhaps those with enormous ancillary sources of income.

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@doctorzaius @TerribleLabs @Hybernaut @jayroh @joshuaclayton @CornMuffin

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@pat_shaughnessy Hot damn! Well, yes, your book is what I'm looking for, but, heck, I'd like to take a look at the system, too :-).

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@pat_shaughnessy Where's the C code?? And, not to steal any glory from you, truly, I'd be glad to review/help. I'm old (OLD) sys guy.

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@pat_shaughnessy All I can find (so far) is half-machine-translation of how the old MRI system worked. I'm an old compiler guy...

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@pat_shaughnessy Hey, I heard your talk at the last Boston.rb. Is there a YARV spec somewhere? From where are you getting this good stuff?

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Listening to my 7 year-old daughter singing (in Russian) along with lovely bard-singers. A miracle--her ear seems to catch everything.

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New version of RubyMine (4.5) seems pretty good. As a text editor it seems as good as TextMate or Sublime. Still don't trust its debgger.

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Amazing, how good it feels to have some real qualifications in one's back pocket.

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After installing Postgres 4 or 5 times and managing gems through endless upgrades, keeping a resume up to date is EASY!

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I cannot imagine seeing new guys play The Stooges. Nor would I want to hear anyone but Agnetha Falksberg sing "The Day Before You Came."

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James Herriot took his kids with him on his rounds. Sounds great. Looking forward to getting back to a 40ish hour work week.

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My 7 year-old had karate class, my 17 year-old had first day as a working person. I can talk to neither, being late, at work, in JS Land.

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Simplifying auto-completion house-of-cards in jQuery. Looking forward to day I'm "Javascript Guru" (hah!)

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FIT testing paradigm works pretty well in Cucumber, thanks to smart guy(s) who coded tables in the latter. The trick is the step wording.

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Took 2 hours to get back into the RESTful saddle. Whoever constructed Rails knew what he was doing--user errors (mine) easy to debug.

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Gosh, it's good to be back working!

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Four weeks into consulting job, ahead of schedule, BDD using Cucumber for library (unusual, but VERY handy).