I so gotta get me one of these Human-Animal Hybrids T-Shirts! Thanks to BoingBoing for the link, and thanks to George Bush for making this possible. :)

In my spare time I’ve been playing with Rails for a while now. This week I tried using SwitchTower and ActiveRecord Migrations for the first time, and I’m very impressed. Migrations provide a way for versioning and applying database changes. A simple call to script/generate migration MigrationName generates a new blank migration file with the appropriate version number. The file contains two methods up and down, which up- and down-grade (for rollback purposes) the database respectively....

Both a coworker and Andy Hunt’s blog pointed me to this website. It’s about time the venerable “Waterfall” software development methodology got its own conference: Waterfall 2006. :)

If you’re getting tired of the hype around “Web 2.0”, you may get a kick out of this: Wankr

I so need to get me one of these babies: MacBook Pro. The specs are quite awesome: Too bad I don’t have $2500 to spare right now… Let’s hope for a big tax refund this year. Still, I’m somewhat surprised that Apple gave up on the PowerBook brand that they spent a lot of time on developing. But then again I have no doubt that the new MacBook brand will catch on very quickly…...