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This weekend I attended RailsConf. This was my first multi-day conference. It was a great experience that I’m sure to repeat over the coming years. Met a lot of great Rails developers, working on interesting and disparate projects. Met a good number of Harvest [...]
Just wanted to drop a note in my blog, here, that I will be attending RailsConf from Friday through Sunday. If any lurkers out there are gonna be in attendance, do drop me a note. Let’s meet each other!
If you want to stay up-to-date on any Barry-meets-RailsConf information, please check me out on Twitter.
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MinneBar forewarning. I will be participating in a panel discussion on distributed teamwork. I put out a call a while back and received several responses. A good core group has formed, all with varying experiences in the distributed, or “virtual,” team environment.
My experience [...]
Push through the afternoon, folks. Five o’clock is just around the bend.
Everyone knows someone who claims to have invented a national catch phrase. For instance, “take a chill pill” originated at my middle school. And I invented the term “redonkulous.” Well, it was either me or one of two friends. The term did not originate with The O.C. as Urban Dictionary describes.
Well, [...]
Today is the one-year anniversary of me stepping out on my own. Frankly, it blows my mind that it has already been a year. What a leap I took! I’m nothing but happy with the decision, even if I’m not exactly where I hoped to be at the one-year mark.
I’m proud to [...]
Today’s customer support email to a company I actually like.
I am trying to “Subscribe & Save” to several items on your site. I was brought to the “Subscribe & Save” idea through your flyer in a previous order:
“FREE SHIPPING on all orders” “All Subscribe & Save orders ship for free. Always.”
So I went to [...]
Got this idea from MeanE and I like it. The first sentence from the first (real) post of each month of the past year. Yay!
January
Soak it in.
February
A couple weeks ago I finally had the opportunity to watch Idlewild.
March
A little video Friday for you.
April
I’ve really enjoyed my first Mac experience in eight years.
May
Today my [...]
I’m eclectic and I can prove it. I’ve listened to each of these songs about 5 times today:
Tannhäuser: Pilgrims’ Chorus by Richard Wagner Blue by Joni Mitchell Stronger by Kanye West
How eclectic are you today?
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This is one of those knee-jerk posts designed to get a business bad Google hits. I admit it. I really hate Clements Auto Company of Mankato, Minnesota. There, I said it.
A couple years ago I was on the hunt for a diesel Volkswagen Jetta. Mankato is a 45-minute drive from my [...]