Too much flatpicking. My poor fingers hurt.
Caffe Noto
I got a lot of work done in Caffe Noto this morning. It’s nice in there when it isn’t too busy. And what a beautiful building.
I’m working on a super-accessible administration area for this project. It needs to be updateable by a pretty big and not-necessarily-web-savvy staff. PHP OOP for nice & reliable validations and pretty code (pretty for PHP). I’m still falling back into procedural mode for a number of the more intensive database queries, but I shouldn’t. I’m trying to adopt the controller-light model-heavy principles that I picked up in Ruby. Is it my ineptitude or PHP’s poor implementation of OOP? It is the poor craftsman…
May 5 2008
From the “Night Out” episode of NBC’s “The Office”:
Andy: Old ball and chain’s been a lot more chain than ball lately, if you know what I’m saying.
I’ve been waiting for somebody to make a big fuss about this, but as far as I know nobody has. That line is a blatant joke-steal.
From the “Best Man for the Gob” episode of “Arrested Development”:
Gob: I’ve got the marriage and none of the good parts. It’s like so far, it’s been all chain and no ball.
I, for one, am angry about it. Ed Helms, who delivered the line on The Office, guest starred on Arrested Development. He should know better.
Furthermore, in the same episode of “The Office”:
Michael: Who are you dating?
Jim: Pam.
Michael: That’s still going on?
While not directly lifted, that is a pretty Arrested Development-esque exchange.
May 2 2008
McGruder’s is the first Dublin pub I’ve seen to provide Wii Sports as a bar game.
April 30 2008
I went to see Shane’s play LOVELIFE. It was good. He did some rewriting that made the whole thing more producable, but decreased the emotional punch a bit. Notably writing out the part of the main couple’s daughter. The writing was generally quite strong, though.
Great acting, great direction, great set design. All in all, really high production value. Hat’s off to Shane.
April 26 2008
The War on Flash
Everybody knows that web designers don’t like Flash. And by ‘everybody’ I mean ‘web designers’. See Glyphobet: Why Your Flash Design Sucks.
Somebody got the executives of a firm I’m doing some work for into the buzzword ‘flash’. So they love to discuss it; ‘We don’t want a lot of flash, but we do need a bit to impress the guys in the Middle East’. I don’t capitalise their use of ‘flash’ because they don’t mean Flash, as in ‘Adobe Flash’, they mean ‘sparkle’ or ‘pizzazz’.
So don’t tell anyone but I said I’m giving them ‘flash’ and I’m actually giving them javascript.