Jeremy Durham

One of the things I miss about My last gig is the day-to-day interaction with servers. I feel like I’m missing out a lot when big server moves happen because I’m no longer deploying my applications to a server that requires my configuration, and so I kinda just “take what I get”.

On that note, I’ve moved to a VPS running Gentoo (I’m a Debian guy) to get familiar with Gentoo as well as get back to configuring and running things the way I want.

For the longest time I complained about the Mac terminal not being keyboard friendly. Home inserted ~ instead of going to the beginning of the line, all that junk. While on one of my rants, someone told me that emacs commands work in terminal (I do not know emacs what-so-ever). Apparently, Control A goes to the beginning of the line, Control E goes to the end, and Control K deletes to the end of the line. Control XU undos. Not half bad!

Eons…

A big shout out to all of the people who made the Eons launch possible! I’ve been honored to be on a really great team with a lot of excellent people. Check us out at Eons, we’re going to do some great things.

So, I’m not sure how I missed Crazy egg, but very nicely done! Although this idea is bound to be consumed by a larger entity, it’s very cool, and more important, very useful.

If you haven’t already, check it out!

So, aside from my normal geekiness, I have a real soft spot for Wing Chun. In fact, I studied it for several years when I lived in Michigan. I really enjoyed the whole deal, and my Sifu was unbelievably good. Since moving to Boston, it’s been impossible for me to find people to practive with. Isn’t there anyone who does Yip Man (Traditional) Wing Chun in Boston? Where are they?

It looks like early July I’ll be headed back to Michigan for a week to study Wing Chun with my Sifu.

Brian Delacey pointed me at Gyre, which is a nice web based debugger for Rails apps.

I really, really like the idea behind Standout Jobs. I don’t generally hire people (ever), but I think it’s a great idea. There’s already a few places looking for Ruby developers.

On a side note, the Ruby market is definitely in low supply high demand mode. It’s a great time to be doing, or learning, Ruby.

There’s now a browse-able darcs repository running at darcs.jeremydurham.com. You can get some of the code I’ve written, borrowed, or backported. I’ll add the rest over the next few days, including the new ActionWebService for Merb and JQuery for Rails plugins.

DabbleDB is displaying Zeldia.com. Weird.

UPDATE: Not sure what it was, but it’s fixed now.