The LSRC has definitely gotten better for me as I am now developing a stronger understanding of not just Rails but Ruby. I am still not a hardcore developer but I am thinking that will change this year. This year the focus was on how to make things move faster, here is what I learned:

• Ruby 1.9 feature set will include multilingualization!
• Code coverage, though important may not reflect the true status of how stable your code
• Complexity metric should be part of your suite of tests
• FLOG your code! A cool way to discover where complexity lies within your MVC
• Metric will help establish priorities with work but the use of metrics should be within the dev team and not from a manager hoping for full coverage!
• Social thing to help, explain your code! useful for others to get up to speed on your work and keeps you focus on why you code the way you did
• Use Heckle! It mutates your code and tries to make test fail, gotta try that!
• Ruby community is embracing cloud computing
• PoolParty is one tool to work in a cloud
• Keynote of Matz was great, you can see that though he is very pleased with the adaption of Ruby, there was a subtle worry in him about Rails. Rails has always been push as a quick web framework to create web apps without learning Ruby and the focus is RAILS over Ruby. It was obvious Matz would like the focus shift back to the elegance of Ruby to strengthen the quality of the developer rather than speed. He seems genuinely sincere and humble. A calmness about him is a stark contrast to the rebel attitude of the community.
• github adds the nice social branching to your code base that allows simple branching and joining of code. SVN can do this but not as elegant nor practical.
• PacketFu is crazy cool for security folks. Killer features, will most likely be part of Metasploit

Very cool conference. Now I am all energize to expand my Ruby knowledge! Need to go to more of these to stay motivated!!!

We finally made our way to the infamous Hamilton Pool.  I had the opportunity to use the flip and to keep it simple, I only used the tools provided from the camera.  Here is the final product:

Not bad though the music provided was cheesy.  That will have to be fixed on later videos.  Also I need to figure out a way to keep the quality up to 640×480.  Other than that, carrying the little bugger sure beats the beefy digicam.

Been wild and been crazy. Lov’n life and had not much time doing the blog but while I was away, a couple of things happened:

• McCain selected Sarah Palin in hopes to grab Hillary’s vote (how insulting to Hillary’s support base)
• Gustav is making it’s way to the gulf states, it may be an issue for us Austinites as well.
• Would like the US economy to stabilize? Vote Democrat!
• I am a huge CU fan. CU is where Keyla and I feel deeply in love with each other. Never gave CSU much thought, I guess I should.
• Thought the movie mode in the Nikon D90 was cool but the rumor specs of my 5D replacement looks amazing! HD movie mode…
• Chevy Volt actually got me excited about possibly buying domestic for the first time (huge Nissan, Toyota and Honda lover) but that dash has got to go!

Well that is all folks.

• Working on cleaning up a lot of ‘virtual’ clutter. Amazing how virtual stickies are much like their physical counterparts. #

• Healthy meal is making me sleepy. have a 2.5 hour drive back to Austin. Need Starbucks. #
• 152 miles back to Austin. 3 hours before I get to say goodnight. #
• Home sweet home. I cannot imagine how people can commute from Austin to Houston on a daily basis. That is hard on you, your car and life! #
• Walking my kids to school. Everyone is excited! #
• Kids are in their classroom. Keyla and I are about to head our separate ways to work. Feels odd not having my kids with me. Miss them. #
• Work day has started minus my kiddos. Meetings will be easier though I do miss their constant need to grab my attention. The office is quiet #
• working on b2e conversion, Bob is taking care of EC2 and I am looking forward to getting home. #