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July 2007 Archives

Recipes finished

Posted by Marty Haught on Jul 10, 2007Comments

Andy and I finished the two recipes, db:dataset and Selenium integration, for the Advanced Rails Recipes book soon to come out from the Pragmatic Programmers. The process was easier than I was anticipating though the final tweaking of the recipe text went through many revisions.

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Too many hobbies?

Posted by Marty Haught on Jul 10, 2007Comments

Anyone who has followed my sparse blog will realize that I go for fairly long times without a post. This usually happens when I get focused on some new thing and don’t really think to blog about it while in process. The recipe writing was a classic. I posted at the beginning and end of that project. Of course, it was broken by two major trips for my family, a visit to Juliana’s mother in Florida for the better part of a week and an extended camping trip to the Wild Basin area of the Rocky Mountain National Park around July 4th. This leads me to my primary thought for this post.

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