Posted by: meaplet on: February 22, 2008
Certain people claim that I am not a satisfactory blogger if I don’t update every day for their reading pleasure. To that, I say “pfft, enable comments on your blog and then we’ll see what I do on my blog.”
Anyway, below is a genuine email exchange that took place in my work email over the last day or so. I hope you enjoy it; I certainly did.
from [coworker 1]
to [coworker 2]
cc [meaplet], [coworker 2’s manager]
date Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:55 AM
subject Death to hyphy?[coworker 2],
I know that since you’re in Hyderabad you probably didnt see this week’s cover of SF weekly:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2008-02-20/news/the-demise-of-hyphy/That’s right the “Demise” of Hyphy. I will send along the phsyical copy I have which calls it the DEATH of hyphy.
[meaplet] thinks they’re confused. It’s cause you’re in India! Hyphy isnt dead, it’s just asleep cause [coworker 2] is away!
Have a great time, and know that we’re looking forward to your (and Hyphy’s) imminent return to the Yay.
yaddaimean?
[coworker 1]
from [coworker 2]
to [coworker 1]
cc [meaplet], [coworker 2’s manager]
date Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:32 PM
subject Re: Death to hyphy?Haha thanks [coworker 1]. Guess I got a little greedy and took all the hyphy with me. I’ll bring it back, fa sho. ;)
Keep it real in the Yay … * pops collar *
– [coworker 2]
Moral of the story: the Bay Guardian, no longer satisfied with harshing on my employer, is now harshing on KMEL as well. What’s up with that?
Posted by: meaplet on: February 14, 2008
New blog, new programming language. Life is full of new things right now. I’m reading Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional to begin my ramping up, and so far the book is surprisingly good. Particularly helpful so far has been Appendix A: Ruby Primer and Review for Developers. It gave a pretty thorough overview of the language for coders, so I have some idea of what to expect going forward.
I suppose I haven’t seen enough of the language yet to see its real strengths yet–these days I’m a python coder to the core. I don’t see the reason yet for the crazy hybrid multi-language approach–I’m very much a convert to the Zen of Python way of thinking– it’s much easier to write clean, readable code if everyone has the same basic idea of what the style is and how best to go about solving any different problem. LEARNING Ruby is going to be easy because I can follow my Python methodology, but it’s also easy for a perl programmer to follow his methodology, etc. and that’s got to lead to maintenance problems down the line.
Keep reading here for my continuing adventures with Ruby, my continued addiction to Python, and things relating to the rest of my life too (because there are parts of my life that don’t involve code, I promise). Here goes, the beginning of a new blog. Will there be more than one post here? Only time will tell.
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