Jay McGavren's Journal - Latest Comments

Re: Quick HOWTO for Hirb formatter for irb/Rails console…

Chip Castle — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:20:43 -0000

I love hirb! What I really needed was your .irbrc suggestion, which saves me from typing in those commands on each script/console session. Thanks!

Re: I’m talking at RubyConf!!!

ujihisa — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:52:04 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Quick HOWTO for Hirb formatter for irb/Rails console…

jaymcgavren — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:11:21 -0000

I believe you can set up your environment so that rubygems is loaded whenever Ruby starts, but frankly I never took time to sort that out properly. A redundant "require 'rubygems'" doesn't hurt anything (it won't re-load if it's already loaded), and ensures that your code will run for lazy bums like me. :)

Re: Quick HOWTO for Hirb formatter for irb/Rails console…

Cory Schires — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:51:10 -0000

Thanks. This was exactly what I've been looking for.

Just curious, why do you need to require rubygems? I would have assumed they'd be loaded by default (although that's apparently not true).

Re: Quick setup for Linux games under MythTV/MythGame…

jaymcgavren — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:06:09 -0000

I'm using an XBox 360 wireless controller receiver that I set up according to these directions (link down as of writing, let me know if it's not back up later):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=825464

Once I have the driver running and the controller available as /dev/js0 the rest is pretty automatic for me. I can do a post on my setup if that'll help, though.

Re: Cucumber/Webrat…

jaymcgavren — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:40:17 -0000

For anybody finding this later, I just stumbled across it again and have to add that it should always be "When I GO TO the messages page", not "Given I AM ON the messages page". Keeps things much cleaner.

Oh, and Cucumber + Webrat rocks, all Rails devs should learn them. Period.

Re: Quick setup for Linux games under MythTV/MythGame…

beth — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:25:03 -0000

Thanks for the post! On the step to update the database, I used the command "sudo su mythtv" first. Then all was well.

Now if only I could figure out the whole joystick thing I'd really be golden.

Re: QuickSilver Google search with 100 results per page…

jaymcgavren — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:23:49 -0000

Also append this to enable JavaScript keyboard shortcuts:

&esrch=BetaShortcuts

Re: Jay McGavren’s Journal

jaymcgavren — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:29:44 -0000

I noticed that in the photo and wasn't sure if it should or not. But I don't recall it doing that *all* the time. The shell was swerving all over the place, even more than the picture shows, so it may be that.

Mmm, makes me want to implement steerable missiles...

Re: Jay McGavren’s Journal

Logan Barnett — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:25:12 -0000

Nice!
I wonder why the triangle trail is messing up. It shouldn't fold over like that on the head of the trail.

Re: Laid off…

benatkin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:05:51 -0000

I haven't paired with you yet and for all I know you could have outsourced writing Zyps to India, but you seem like you might be an awesome dev. I won't take your word for it, though. :D

In all seriousness, I'm excited to see what you come up with while you're on your own. I've always thought of you as being independent, and thought you would thrive on your own, once you were ready. Best wishes.

Re: Scratch class!

jaymcgavren — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:35:59 -0000

Please respond here if you'd like to have an event at your school and/or club. I can't provide hardware (yet), but I can help set up existing computers, and can either train teachers or be present myself to conduct a class. Thanks!

Re: Zyps at MofoCamp

Logan Barnett — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:40:29 -0000

I remember having a moment (while late at work) looking over and seeing the Zyps demo and being mesmerized. Good work with the game and the library!

Re: Laid off…

stevenbshaffer — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:34:41 -0000

Dammit! I swear if one more person I know gets laid off I'm going to...well...something.

Good luck, kick butt Dev Fu!

Re: is.gd at command line…

jaymcgavren — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:20:36 -0000

Try these links:

http://www.linfo.org/create_shell_1.html
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread54389.html#

You'll also need to use your favorite package manager (MacPorts on OS X) to install the curl utility.

Re: Laid off…

jaymcgavren — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:52:57 -0000

Oh, I'm an awesome dev. Just read any of my sales letters and you'll know. :)

Seriously, thanks for the good wishes. And yes, you'll definitely see me at more tech gatherings - got to go find leads. :)

Re: is.gd at command line…

chuckreynolds — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:43:50 -0000

any way to explain that in english to a non command line junkie? cause that'd be cool if I could do that in terminal

Re: Laid off…

chuckreynolds — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:28:17 -0000

Happy to see you guys jump into a new startup Jay - as far as I know (I don't know you too personally yet but) you're a great dev and I hope you and the others good luck. I'll see you around...

Re: Laid off…

jamesbritt — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:25:11 -0000

Wow, I'm so sorry to hear this. And really surprised. Integrum had been beating the drum for new hires the last few months, suggesting they had solid expectations of a rosy future.

Perhaps the people laid off should start their own consulting company ...

Re: Notes from Tomas Carillo on effective presentations…

Frank Adamo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:51:57 -0000

Very good tips. I generally advise people to locate the projector and screen to one corner of the room and stand in the center to keep the focus on you. I especially like the first point, "When you put up a slide, your audience’s attention goes there instead of on you" thus "Make your point first, then display slide to support it." Fantastic.

I might add that when you videotape yourself, also play it withOUT the sound to check your gestures. Just like the slides, gestures should enhance the presentations. Some presenters have little or no gestures, others have filler-gestures (like the "ums" as noted above).

Re: SVG…

stelt — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:17:16 -0000

out-of-the-box SVG support in browsers is great.
Only Internet Explorer misses it, maybe that's why it's losing marketshare.
Opera has the best SVG support at the moment

More SVG via http://svg.startpagina.nl

Re: SVG…

jaymcgavren — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:22:13 -0000

I'm not really proud of the actual document. :P But I e-mailed it to you anyway.

Re: SVG…

benatkin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:40:13 -0000

...and you attach a screenshot? :p

You know, it's quite likely that 100% of your subscribers have a browser that's capable of rendering SVG.

Re: “Filter Through Command” in your editor…

Logan Barnett — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:27:09 -0000

Neat! This is going in my TextMate vs. Netbeans series.

Re: I shit you not…

Logan Barnett — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:27:44 -0000

Love the text message (:

I had something similar happen to me when I first moved to Phoenix, except I wasn't distracted. I just looked away for a moment. When I looked back, the light appeared to be green (it was directly behind the sun in the morning). Thinking the light had been green for a bit now, I gunned it.

I wasn't as lucky as you, since it was morning rush hour. Another car t-boned my backend and sent my car spinning. The brand new car I bought with barely 50 miles on it was destroyed.

I count myself lucky, since insurance picked up the tab and most people in side-collisions get some irreparable back injury or just die.