Yesterday, I was a mess but last night as I followed the Brewers game on the train home, I started to relax. The Cubs are in the playoffs for the first time since 2003. I don't bring that year up too often, it's still painful. On the other hand, this is only the fifth time the Cubs have made the post-season in my lifetime. I see the Yankees have gone to thirteen straight playoffs so that should give you some perspective.
So I can breathe until Wednesday when everything gets cranked up another notch.
The Cubs are not making it easy on me. I was hoping that being up three games going into the last week of the season would be enough to let me breathe easy but being a Cub fan for so long, I should have known better. Now, three games to go, up by two games, not freaking out daily will be my mantra.
So, I'm starting my third week at the Times and things are moving quickly which is pretty cool. I'm definitely going to start keeping this more up-to-date but for now, how about a tab dump to get the juices flowing?
Personal unit tests Could be an interesting way of keeping yourself on target for whatever goals you are aiming for.
Rails, the 15 minutes is Almost Up. Meet Erlang.
Rails performance presentation and another one
Monitoring Rails Performance with Munin and a Mongrel
Everything is Fast for Small n
FeedHub - Individualized RSS feeds
Google Code for Educators - Distributed Systems
ThingFish - ThingFish is a network-accessable, searchable, extensible datastore. It can be used to store chunks of data on the network in an application-independent way, associate the chunks with other chunks through metadata, and then search for the chunk you need later and fetch it again, all through a REST API over HTTP.
CouchDB views in Ruby instead of Javascript
Use vendor branches for plugins, not script/plugin install
Bayesian Network Classifier Toolbox
If They Come, How Will They Build It?
September is traditionally the time for going back to school and the start of football season. For me this year, it's also time for one chapter of my life to end and get ready for the next one to begin. Today is my last day at EarthLink.
It's actually the third time I've had a last day here which is pretty funny. I have a feeling though, there won't be a fourth one. No, I'm not burning any bridges but let's just say that things are a bit in flux around here.
I have worked with some amazing folks, learned a lot and was given freedom to investigate new and different technologies. You can't ask for much more in a job but now is the time to make a move and that's what I'm doing.
Monday, I start working at the Los Angeles Times. I'll have much more to say on that after today.
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