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What’s Up

Posted: February 6th, 2010 | Filed under: Australia, Personal | 3 Comments »

You might have been wondering what’s going on with that settler Aleks and his wife Kate. Well, a lot.

A week ago our friends showed us the oceanic surf beach where we spent a lovely Saturday. My boogie board and I didn’t get out of water for at least 4 hours. Later, two and a half friends joined us and we all enjoyed a lovely conversation with a mellon, grapes and fresh pine-apple (that I cut right there on the beach). Wonderful day. If you wonder, the beach was Gunnamatta (Photos, Forecast).

Last month I was busy looking for a team to join locally, but haven’t found anything suitable yet. Some offices are inconveniently far and some looking for people with different skills (mainly Java which I don’t want to touch as a little kid who ate candy before dinner; my dinner is spoiled by Ruby). So I decided to take a break and keep my independent contractor chair warm for a little longer. These days however, I focus more on contributing to OSS and working with different projects just for the benefit of all Earthlings. During the last week I contributed a patch to Cucumber, worked days a nights on adapting Cucumber Rails generators to Rails 3, added a nice feature to pass custom tags into assets URL and path to Thoughtbot’s Paperclip, created and deployed Family Hut application for photo-sharing and discussions inside the family (yes, I know about Picasa, Flickr and alike which come all with their downsides; mainly in the form of pricing pages). As you can see, it was a very fun week and my life hasn’t stopped here at all. Quite to the contrary, I’m building up steam.

Also, I was thinking of starting another blog for purely coding topics on a different engine. Current best candidate is Enki but I haven’t reviewed it thoroughly enough. My main concerns with Wordpress are that (a) I still can’t make it show the source code beautifully, (b) I get a lot of spam, (c) I’m tired of PHP and (d) tired of WYSIWYG / plain HTML editor (where’s Textile or Markdown?).

That’s all, folks. If you have any comments / questions, welcome. I’ll let you know if I deploy another blog.

3 Comments

  1. 1 Andrew Dashin said at 10:47 on February 6th, 2010:

    Hi

    You’re sometimes writing on how d’u like Ruby and don’t like to return to Java.
    About a week ago I’ve started to do small things with Ruby, and you know, with my absolutely empty Ruby luggage I am able to write code faster!

    ps Photos link doesn’t work

  2. 2 Aleksey Gureiev said at 11:02 on February 6th, 2010:

    Hm, it (the photos link) does for me. Just checked.

    Yeah, that’s the beauty of Ruby. You don’t need fancy IDE’s to make incredible things. The constructs are so straightforward that you really enjoy writing code, not struggling with the compiler. Glad you feel the same (if I read you right).

    Cheers!

  3. 3 Vitaliy Levit said at 21:55 on February 8th, 2010:

    Certainly not evangelizing Wordpress or solving all your problems, but this may be a start ;)

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/text-control/

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