NakedSushi

One thing that really irks me when developing is bad error messages. Bad as in unhelpful. Bad as in vague. Bad as in “WTF, I fixed the problem, but I still don’t know what that error message meant.”

That message was caused by me passing in a hash instead of an array of hashes. Luckily, I [...]

King’s Highway, the restaurant in the same building as the Ace Hotel lobby/check-in area, is what I pictured a diner in the 70s to look like, maybe a bit hipper. Likewise, the food is a hipper version of 70s diner food.

Upon sitting down, an interestingly dressed older woman with fantastic glasses plopped down a small [...]

The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was suggested to me by someone as a helpful book for someone new to the language but not new to programming in general. I found this more helpful than the Pickaxe book because it’s concise with examples while being detailed in the [...]

Yesterday, I completed my first week of employment at GoodReads.com.It’s tough starting a new job, learning a new programming language, and just getting used to new conventions, but it went alright.  I even got a few tickets done thanks to a lot of tips from my co-workers.
I mostly worked on google maps integration on our [...]

Just a short note for now because I got up at 6:30am and had a hard but fun day at work.  Now I’m pooped.  Today’s my first official week at work.  Oh yeah, I work at GoodReads.com now. For those not in the know, think of facebook + yelp for people who like books. [...]

I scored a new job and I had breakfast with J. Gold today. I have to say, I’m floating on clouds now.  J. Gold was how I imagined he’d be, which was nice. I was afraid that I was going to be all internet-awkward, but I think we had a pleasant meal together. It also [...]

Now that we have our study some-what set up, I actually have a desk to work from. I opted to work from home on Friday because I needed to just concentrate and hide-out without any distractions, which was getting hard to do at work. Sometimes, it’s just nice to have a change of [...]