Monthly Archives: March 2009

learning from the Pirahã language

By Sarah | March 21, 2009

The Pirahã are a remote Amazonian tribe with little contact from other tribes and the rest of the world. There are only a few hundred native speakers of this language which is believed to be only surviving member of the Mura language family (other languages in this family having become extinct in the last [...]

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something new about goats

By Sarah | March 16, 2009

We toured Harley Goat Farm in Pescadero, CA yesterday. I highly recommend it — you need to make reservations in advance since it is busy baby goat season. I did, for a time, live and work on a goat farm, so I didn’t expect to learn anything new.
[Update] I learnedwas told [...]

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git submodule gotcha

By Sarah | March 10, 2009

I anticipate enjoying git submodules for all of the various and sundry dependencies for my project. However there is a bit of a gotcha with my specific use case. It’s seems I’m not alone, but I thought I’d write this up for others who may into the same thing (and for my own [...]

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seeking experienced Ruby on Rails developer

By Sarah | March 9, 2009

Mightyverse is looking for another engineer… if you or someone you know wants to come work with me coding on Rails for bit, here’s the info:
Mightyverse is building the world’s largest living language database to allow people to say anything in any language anywhere. We’re seeking a passionate, talented Ruby on Rails developer adept [...]

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lego reflections

By Sarah | March 7, 2009

It has been a few weeks since I quit my full-time job and started off on my own. My immediate physical reaction was to come down with the worst flu I’ve had in years. It was a bit demoralizing to be sick for over two weeks… ugh. I also spent quite a [...]

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rails routes

By Sarah | March 6, 2009

I just went through a fabulous tutorial by Daryn Holmes about routes. It is written for 2.0.2, but I found that nothing had changed for 2.2. I already had a good feel for how routes worked, but stepping through the details was very helpful.
Key points:

By default controllers render the view that [...]

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