Archive for June, 2005

In an ongo­ing attempt to become a mil­lionare, I thought I’d see if I could get one step ahead all those fancy ser­vices out there.

You need: Ruby­On­Rails. A num­ber. A word. (and a good idea, but bear with me).

So I went for http://numberword.com/ which has to be _the_ domain name for any upcom­ing ser­vice. It’s taken, though — and I can’t be arsed to try and buy it off some pirate. 

Fuckr.

Stand by. Good stuff com­ing up. I promise to do a reboot7-writeup and talk about DR doing podcasts…and men­tion that new iTunes 4.9. I know you can’t wait. Where else would you get that exel­lent cov­er­age of before-mentioned stuff. But be patient.

From my blog­ging hia­tus, just a quick thought:

Who’s gonna bring a set of iden­ti­cal twins to the Copy­shop and make a scene?

Remem­ber to take pictures.

So, we’re in the mid­dle of Code­gar­den. Good crowd, inter­est­ing peo­ple ask­ing inter­est­ing ques­tions — we’re hav­ing a blast.

Fin­ished my pre­sen­ta­tion on opti­miz­ing devel­op­ment with css and decent markup a cou­ple of hours ago. Besides being slightly under­pre­pared (or rather: hav­ing changed the focus quite some times dur­ing the prepa­ra­tions) and not hav­ing slept for two days, a few other things could’ve needed improve­ment. Take this advice from a pow­er­point vir­gin, doing his first real presentation:

- Screw pow­er­point. We said “No pow­er­point dri­ven sales talk” — so I, for some rea­son, made pow­er­point dri­ven css talk. The slight­est bit of ner­vous­ness instantly turns pow­er­point into a crutch…which is bor­ing and messes with your flow.
– Do research on your crowd. Not know­ing whether peo­ple know (in my case) css and/or umbraco makes it hard to set­tle for the level of abstrac­tion.
– Run through every bit of infor­ma­tion you base your pre­sen­ta­tion on; any­thing not imme­di­ately under­stood by the audi­ence removes focus from your beat­i­fully thought up, abstract ‘best practices’-type speech.
– Demo. No, really — Demo! What­ever. Typ­ing huge amounts of css (or any­thing else for that mat­ter) live is defi­nately bor­ing, but show­ing the end result and the code mak­ing it, even if the tweaking-bit isn’t what you really want to focus on, makes it seem a tad boring.

Despite my lack of sleep and lots of other stuff to do (got do get going doing those pod­casts), I’ve really got that “damn, I can improve that with all the stuff I just learned so I might as well do it now”-feeling.

Lots of good peo­ple are meet­ing up in Tivoli tomor­row. Reboot–atten­dees, Build­ing of Base­camp- and Code­gar­den–peo­ple will all be at Cafe Ketchup at 20:00. If you could do with some food and some inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions, leave a com­ment over at the Umbraco-blog. With a bit of luck, there’ll be fire­works as well. How about that?

Det vidun­derlige feed af poli­ti­ets døgn­rap­port, byder — sam­men med en god opda­ter­ing på krim­i­nalitet i dit lokalom­råde (be afraid, be very afraid — husk det nu — det er oppe i tiden) — på de stressede bet­jentes forsøg i dis­ci­plinen “for­mu­leringer af forskel­lige lovovertrædelser på tid”. 

Men der er guld­korn imellem: Mjøl­ner­parken i stisys­temet — “a.e.b.e.d.” Og ja, du gæt­ter helt rigtigt, hvis du tror vi her taler om De Radikales største væl­ger­gruppe. Hvilket selvføl­gelig bety­der at de straks må fratages ret­ten til at stemme, høre mærke­lig musik og på andre måder lade sig inte­grere i det danske sam­fund. Hvilket man jo kunne gøre til en prin­cip­iel måde at håndtere forsky­delser i stem­meaf­givelsen på. DF får med al sandsyn­lighed lidt for mange stem­mer fra ang­ste men­nesker, der aldrig lii­ige fik læst deres første bog uden billeder. Væk med stem­meretten, ud af lan­det, sær­re­gler for over­førselsind­komst, yes yes. Men det er jo en anden og tem­melig user­iøs snak.

a.e.b.e.d. — husk det nu. Snart i et rim nær dig.