Archive for January, 2008

Rails Incorrect Pluralization Bug Filed

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

My pal Steven Baker just filed this bug with the Rails team - #10919 (incorrect pluralization).  Pretty funny stuff - check it out!

You Know You’re Getting Old When…

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

This morning while at my favorite coffee house, the cute young barista walks over to my table and says “I really like your sweater”. At this point I’m thinking cool! Then she follows up her compliment by asking me where I bought it because she wants to get one just like it for her dad!

Holy smokes - when did I get so old!

WOW - Minority Report Like UI

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I just came across a Project Maestro video on YouTube where the clever people at Cynergy Systems have created a Minority Report style user interface and pointing device.  Written using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and a finger tracking, Wii Remote hack the demo is truly remarkable.  It would be really cool to hear from the Cynergy people to see how hard this would be to do in Flex?