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I've been wanting to make this break for a long time. Now that I've got several domains to hold it all, and software that can handle it reasonably well, it's time to go for it. Only I'm having a really hard time regarding where to draw the line.
For those of you that don't know, Jim [...]

I always make things more complicated than they need to be. I always go a lot further than I have to. I always over think and over prepare. As a result, very little gets done. That needs to change. Right now.
Writing software is easy. I'm really good at it. So why do I make it [...]

I've got about 40 minutes before it's time to leave work. Since I've worked my butt off today, I'm spending these last few minutes on me. My goal is to whittle down the 70+ messages in my "INBOX":http://revjim.net/pages/inbox/ and read/respond/write about the 23 items on my "TODO list":http://del.icio.us/revjim/todo/.
You can watch the list get smaller, or [...]

Jess made me a salad for lunch today. It was great. I ate it at 11am in the middle of waiting for a bunch of data to reparse after fixing a huge problem in a program that caused lots of data to not show up where it should. Yay Fun. But, I'm hungry again now, [...]

Rails 0.12.0 is out, and with "this release":http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/04/18/rails-0120-eager-associations-new-basefind-api-assertions-revisited-more-ajax/, comes many more benefits to drinking the koolaid.
First is the new "Eager Associations":http://ar.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html. Prior to this, accessing data from a related object would require N+1 queries — 1 to get the list of objects and another query for each object to get it's related objects. The only [...]

It Will Pass(click to enlarge)

Went for a run again this morning. I've got a pretty decent plan that works pretty well to get my heart rate up without it beating right out of my chest.
I start out with a brisk walk from my house. After about 1/2 of the distance to the corner has been covered, I run until [...]

There are lots of great services all over the web these days. From LiveJournal, to Flickr, to Del.icio.us, to Tada, to 43Things. And, from the looks of it, these services are only going to get better and more numerous.
The availability of all of these services, however, leaves a difficult question in the minds of software [...]

I'm sure quite a few of you have noticed the Ads on this site. These Ads are powered by Google's "AdSense":https://google.com/adsense/ program. I've included them to attempt to offset some of the costs of running this site. I don't get a lot of traffic, but I get enough to matter. In web traffic alone, I [...]