Patrick Tulskie

The night time, it was great.  Air was cool, had just gone on a nice jog with my girlfriend, and I was quite content with everything.  Being that my girlfriend has my health in my best interest, she decided to give me some cereal to take home with me.  I walk out to my car in my running shorts that have no pockets and I’m half juggling my clothes, laptop case, shoes, cereal, and… my Blackberry.


def for_the_record
running_shorts != skin_tight
end


I do what I can, placing my blackberry on the roof of my car, get everything inside the car and start driving home.  I get about half way there and…

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Quite frankly, I’m tired of about hearing about REST.

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So what if I started off my post with a pun?  Look you’re just going to have to deal with it.  Let’s move on.  No stop it with the face, it’s my blog and I can do what I want.

Anyhow - REST is one of those things I hear a lot of people talk about as if it is this big mystery.  Then, when you finally find someone to explain it, it turns out they have never actually used it and only understand the theory.  It’s so frustrating to the beginning Ruby on Rails developer because not everyone has a mini David Hansson in their pocket and it really is one of those things you need to see to understand.

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You know what I am talking about.  It happens to us all at some point.

Oh no it doesn’t, you’re just being silly/bragging/etc.

No.  It will happen if it hasn’t already so just shut up and listen.

The Night Before

You’re working on a project, it’s late at night, you can barely function, so you close the lid on your Macbook and go to sleep.  A meer fifteen minutes later and you’re coding again.  How is this possible?  You’re not at your computer anymore.  You’re off in la la land and yet the project you’re working on continues to consume your subconscious.

Suddenly, at 3am, you spring out of bed, open up Textmate, and write in some code, relaunch your application and sometimes it works perfectly, other times the foos and bars don’t line up properly so you start trying to fix it.  Next thing you know it’s 5am and you need to wake up for work in an hour.  Then you get back into bed, angry at yourself for ruining your sleep, and get out of bed an hour later, shower, head into work a complete zombie.

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