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Task Management in Source Code

I often see something when I am looking at source code, that I will need to address to get to where I am planning on going, but that for whatever reason, I don’t want to write at that particular moment.

Instead of popping out to another tool to record that, I just toss in a comment right where it would be relevant. This has several benefits, the first such being that the task, a “TODO” if you will, is in context. A reminder of what you were thinking the last time you looked at a segment of code is plopped down right smack in front of you when you visit again.

Posted by Phi Sanders on May 07, 2008

Envy is a green-eyed stripper*

I wrote previously about my initial reaction to The Big Word Project but it’s come up again thanks to an article in Wired with the great opening lines :

“Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret?”

OK – I can admit it, I am definitely envious…

Posted by Phi Sanders on Apr 24, 2008

Zod drinks Moonshine, becomes a Werewolf

One thing I neglected to mention previously, is the reason I am upgrading my slices. Because I am planning a new app, and all of my slices are pretty much single-purpose, I need to add a new one. For Fedora, the slicehost manager only offers version 8 “Werewolf” when creating new slices. The older Fedora distros have already been retired. (Fedora moves fast, with updates every six months.)

Before I added a new slice, I thought it prudent to get my older ones up to snuff, or at least to the same distro level…

Posted by Phi Sanders on Apr 20, 2008

Upgrading My Fedora slice

I just upgraded one of my slices from Fedora Core 6 “Zod” to Fedora 7 “Moonshine.” There were only a few complications…

Posted by Phi Sanders on Apr 20, 2008

A Nightmare Versus A Dream

Ben Scofield with Viget Labs stepped up to the podium last night for the April meeting of the Raleigh Ruby Brigade, held at Red Hat Headquarters. He gave us a preview of the talk he will be delivering at RailsConf 2008, entitled “Domain Modeling with REST”

Any problems with the following notes are almost certainly with my misunderstanding, and should not be blamed on the presenter…

Posted by Phi Sanders on Apr 15, 2008