Julio Santos http://morgane.com All over the world Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:12:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Warcraft III no-cd http://morgane.com/2008/07/04/warcraft-iii-no-cd/ http://morgane.com/2008/07/04/warcraft-iii-no-cd/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:12:13 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=385 woot

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- hitting deadlines without dropping quality even an inch, and while working smart rather than hard
- at&t clerk recommending *against* the new iphone
- bootcamp
- asking for feedback on how im doing, and getting it…straight, to my face
- 12 new cds. woot for pixies, dio and sly & robbie

lol
- Lost (tv show)
- windows
- heat
- 2 hour battery life on the new iphone (according to mr at&t)
- paying $30/mo for wow for not playing it

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/21/whoa-lol/feed/ rox0rs & sux0rs http://morgane.com/2008/06/14/rox0rs-sux0rs/ http://morgane.com/2008/06/14/rox0rs-sux0rs/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:48:46 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=382 rox0rs:
- Eli Godratt’s “The Goal”
- friends + bbq + (belgian) beer
- school’s out (now i can wake up early because i want to)
- chatting with jtf (good per se) and getting lots of good ideas (more goodness)
- dave thomas’ screencasts about ruby meta-programming…ooh yeah

sux0rs:
- Tim Russert’s death
- flaky house buyers
- haven’t bought any new CDs in at least a month
- changing cubicles. i liked my cubicle mkay?
- pipeline of books to read is growing. EVERYONE! STOP WRITING!!

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/14/rox0rs-sux0rs/feed/ eurotrip was hilarious http://morgane.com/2008/06/11/eurotrip-was-hilarious/ http://morgane.com/2008/06/11/eurotrip-was-hilarious/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:55:57 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=381 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356150/

all clichés times 10. the man-u fans are the funniest.

“If you ain’t a MANC, you’re a WANK!”

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/11/eurotrip-was-hilarious/feed/ yes & no http://morgane.com/2008/06/07/yes-no/ http://morgane.com/2008/06/07/yes-no/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:03:51 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=380 yes:
- having margaritas with friends
- finally *starting* to see the benefits of running
- http://www.physicsdiet.com
- surviving a game of baseball. it’s fun going on field trips anyway
- Ben coming back from Iraq next week

no:
- “it’s okay to be the boss”. finished it, but didn’t quite like it. the author assumes that managing restaurant waiters is the same as managing engineers. not that there’s anything wrong with being an engineer of course.
- not being able to run my server on my home laptop anymore
- in the 3rd millennium, almost 4th, still having to justify code coverage
- the wire (hbo). meh at best
- macbook pro battery not recharging at all, after a little over a year

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/07/yes-no/feed/ first free ebook on rails 2.1 http://morgane.com/2008/06/06/first-free-ebook-on-rails-21/ http://morgane.com/2008/06/06/first-free-ebook-on-rails-21/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:15:51 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=379 at least it’s the first one i know of.

book is here

or should i say “o livro esta’ aqui” as it’s in portuguese…

yeah? what!?

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/06/first-free-ebook-on-rails-21/feed/ programmers poor PR http://morgane.com/2008/06/04/programmers-poor-pr/ http://morgane.com/2008/06/04/programmers-poor-pr/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:29:18 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=378 Kathy Sierra is so fricken smart. She tweeted this today:

Programming has a PR problem: most non-coders don’t know how creative it can be to craft code. Best coders use both sides of the brain.

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/04/programmers-poor-pr/feed/ microplace registration http://morgane.com/2008/06/04/microplace-registration/ http://morgane.com/2008/06/04/microplace-registration/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:19:40 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=377 it’s easy:

https://www.microplace.com/user/lite

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/06/04/microplace-registration/feed/ right & wrong http://morgane.com/2008/05/31/right-wrong/ http://morgane.com/2008/05/31/right-wrong/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 18:45:27 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=376 right:
- pushing new version of the site: smallchange-bigchange
- pushing new version of the site stress-free, 48 hours before the deadline, and with no bad surprises
- discovering another french restaurant
- being invited (and then do it) to sit down with execs struggling with agile adoption, and help them fix their problems
- pragprog + railscasts = pragmatic screencasts

wrong:
- missing railsconf in portland because they decided to do it the same day/weekend we wanted to go live
- lack of railsconf coverage or online materials
- losing a couple of pounds is hard and slow
- twitter more down than up
- lack of games on the mac

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/05/31/right-wrong/feed/ you suck if you’re a programmer not on the mac http://morgane.com/2008/05/29/you-suck-if-youre-a-programmer-not-on-the-mac/ http://morgane.com/2008/05/29/you-suck-if-youre-a-programmer-not-on-the-mac/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 14:56:59 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=375 that’s what dhh thinks. if i had my own blog, I too would troll my own readers

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/05/29/you-suck-if-youre-a-programmer-not-on-the-mac/feed/ boba fett & jar jar bings http://morgane.com/2008/05/24/boba-fett-jar-jar-bings/ http://morgane.com/2008/05/24/boba-fett-jar-jar-bings/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 15:50:20 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=374 boba fett:
- start running again (new treadmill)
- hitting 100% functional code coverage (unit tests at a respectable 96.4%, and growing)
- half-size index cards and how it forces stories to be smaller. since we started using half-size cards, it seems that the average story size dropped to half a point. Prolly a coincidence like Lou Gehrig dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease.
- yep and leap. Great little apps. mac only.
- knowing that i won’t have to wake early monday morning (even though i probably will)

jar jar bings:
- the hard cold truth of going on the scale after more than a year
- the sucky house market and how it affects my friends trying to sell their houses
- how big treadmills are, even the small ones. is wii fit the answer?
- banging my head against against the wall trying to get cocoaruby to run on my box
- waiting the whole week for friday night only to get a bowl of cereal and go to bed (to sleep)

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]]> http://morgane.com/2008/05/20/rogues-do-it-from-behind/feed/ yay & meh http://morgane.com/2008/05/17/yay-meh/ http://morgane.com/2008/05/17/yay-meh/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 16:23:00 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=372 yay
- going for “a” drink with friends, when the day is finally cooling off
- getting e-gifts from my friends
- working with jelled teams
- chartdirector for ruby
- not feeling compelled to play wow

meh
- driving home when it’s 37C (prolly 100F in American)
- being a noob at objective-c and cocoa
- underestimating stories by a slight 400% margin error
- pdf books from manning publications
- adobe cs3 installer/uninstaller (it’s got to be different engineers making the installer/uninstaller)

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/05/17/yay-meh/feed/ noob & pro http://morgane.com/2008/05/10/noob-pro/ http://morgane.com/2008/05/10/noob-pro/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 15:26:21 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=371 pro:
- no country for old men
- morgane’s tests
- hearing from a co-worker “thanks for that feature” when i didn’t implement that feature, my (meta)program did
- family guy on itunes
- celebrating 2 years off the tv grid

noob:
- trying to chat with old friends, and hearing crickets instead
- being addicted to the mac
- hangover after just one belgian beer and 2 home made schnapps
- cat vomit + carpet + middle of the night
- npr pledge drive when i forgot to bring cds

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/05/10/noob-pro/feed/ sweet & sour http://morgane.com/2008/05/04/sweet-sour/ http://morgane.com/2008/05/04/sweet-sour/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 16:48:12 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/?p=369 sweet:
- ruby metaprogramming
- porting web apps to the iphone with iui and iphoney
- sapnay show at the homestead high school
- reading “presentation zen”
- morgane being accepted to her art class of choice for this summer

sour:
- people with bluetooth earpieces
- fud around rails
- macbook pro being all retarded when trying to come back from sleep
- being difficult
- not having enough room for my books

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- twitter & twitterrific (i’m kostabongo)
- web dev with rails 3rd edition
- seeing matt and how happy he appears to be
- keynote
- 96% code coverage

ugly
- reading “it’s okay to be the boss”
- shoulder pain
- falling behind with my reading
- missing gogol bordello in santa cruz (argh!)
- not playing the drums

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/04/26/pretty-ugly/feed/ Harvey and Tom on their way to Ghana http://morgane.com/2008/04/25/harvey-and-tom-on-their-way-to-ghana/ http://morgane.com/2008/04/25/harvey-and-tom-on-their-way-to-ghana/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:46:21 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/2008/04/25/harvey-and-tom-on-their-way-to-ghana/ Follow their adventures here:
http://harveyghana.blogspot.com/

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/04/25/harvey-and-tom-on-their-way-to-ghana/feed/ good & bad http://morgane.com/2008/04/21/good-bad/ http://morgane.com/2008/04/21/good-bad/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:41:46 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/2008/04/21/good-bad/ good:
- new workspace
- ruby
- weather
- 1700 attack power on my rogue
- nick cave latest album

bad:
- ruby conf in san jose
- kevin moving to oregon
- firefox on the mac
- not exercising
- primaries

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/04/21/good-bad/feed/ Gogol Bordello @ Warfield http://morgane.com/2008/03/14/gogol-bordello-warfield/ http://morgane.com/2008/03/14/gogol-bordello-warfield/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:30:24 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/2008/03/14/gogol-bordello-warfield/ Fantastic show from a marvelous band.

This was recorded with my camera, but not by me (thanks Kris). I was too busy pushing and shoving (and trying to keep my teeth and nose intact) in the pit.

The sound with my camera was horrible, so I’ve replaced it with some studio recorded songs. Tried to stay as accurate as possible but you can tell.

Found these also. Pretty good, the sound on these cameras is actually pretty decent.

Some pics too

more pictures here

]]> http://morgane.com/2008/03/14/gogol-bordello-warfield/feed/ The Senate backs FSM http://morgane.com/2008/02/26/the-senate-backs-fsm/ http://morgane.com/2008/02/26/the-senate-backs-fsm/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:20:16 +0000 Julio Santos http://morgane.com/2008/02/26/the-senate-backs-fsm/ That’s what this Berkeley student was raving about:

FSM

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