Monthly Archives: June 2006

If you can see this in your aggregator …

… it means PJTrix is in its new home. I have upgraded to WordPress 2.0.3, and applied a new theme. I’ll be tweaking the layout a bit, adding my page “tabs” to the header. Why don’t you come over and … Continue reading

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Moving PJTrix to another server.

This is just to let you know, I’m moving PJTrix.com to another server, where I have more storage. The server PJTrix is on right now is actually owned by a friend of mine, Ernesto Diaz. He is one of my … Continue reading

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It’s down to the wire now, less than 1 hour to go

Well, I got about 50% of my planned features done. I’ll just keep correcting the layout till ten minutes to midnight, check in the last changes, and them I’m gonna crash till about noon tomorrow. My dad’s Father’s Day party … Continue reading

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Less than eleven hours to go …

… and I need a nap. I’ll get an hour of shut eye, and have lunch when I get back up. It doesn’t look like I’ll get 70% of the functionality in by midnight. It may be more like 50%. … Continue reading

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Breakfast time!

My stomach started hurting about 10 minutes ago. It could be from the coffee I had a few hours ago. But I think it’s just gastric juices from 10-11 hours without a meal (and that’s a guess. I don’t remember … Continue reading

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It’s official … today is my own personal hell ;-)

My webmail app for Rails Day 2006 has the all-popular tagging capability (i.e. what GMail calls “labels”.) In the spirit of agile development, Rails has a plugin called acts_as_taggable, that lets developers add tagging to their applications without a whole … Continue reading

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Four hours in, twenty to go …

I just spent about two hours getting all my unit and functional tests to pass for basic authentication functionality. Not good. I should have nailed that down in under 40 minutes. I got little more than nineteen hours to go. … Continue reading

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Competing in Rails Day 2006

In just over three hours, I will be competing in Rails Day 2006. It’s a coding competition, where you are only allowed to use Ruby on Rails to create a full web app in 24 hours. I have a thermos … Continue reading

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