David Heinemeier Hansson

Thanks to the kind Ruby community of Japan, I finally fulfilled this goal. I went there this Summer with Mary and we had a great time. Not only Tokyo, but also Kyoto. Wonderful place.

The Ferrari F430 is one of the most beautiful cars in the world. I desire it. The lead time between stating the goal and fulfilling it is unlikely to be as short as last time, though ;). At ~$200k its distinctively out of range for probably a good long while.

I’ll be in Tokyo from June 8th until June 21th first for a Ruby/Rails conference, then for vacation with Mary. Finally.

There’s nothing quite like riding with the top down through twisty roads and green leaves. Oh boy, it’s living.

It’s not even called Building of Basecamp any more. And for the foreseeable future, it’s not going to be a road show. Chicago is a great city to do this in, so we’re staying put for now.

I believe I have indeed taken myself out for enough drinks to qualify completing this goal by now.

I feel bad about having this on my list because I know there’s no way I’ll be undertaking this within the next couple of years. Japanese is such a cool language, but why oh why did they have to 5000+ signs?

I drove down to the dealer just recently and convince him to let me take a Boxster S for a spin. What a ride. I love the mechanic feel to it. It’s very raw, very real. And it corners so incredibly well.

One day.

It finally happened! Boy, did that feel good.

http://www.writeboard.com

In front of a sizeable chunk of the 2100+ people at O’Reilly’s OSCON, I got 15 minutes to talk about the Secrets of Ruby on Rails. Very cool experience. Looking forward to do it again at EuroOSCON.

We did it. After a couple of months of hard work, Backpack is now available. Check it out, check it in.

And it’s going to be very, very cool. It’s already one of my most used applications.

Just the timeshifting of the news (Deadline, DR2) has made it worth it for me.

Mac Mini + eyeTV 200 = Timeshifting TV bliss

Ain’t that the truth. Check it out at http://www.tadalist.com

I needed a good excuse (or any excuse, really) to get a Mac Mini and in the long lasting desire of a PVR to record TV onto a harddrive, I found it. I’m going to “build” (plugin firewire cables and chuckle at the missing step three) my own PVR using the Mac Mini and the EyeTV 200.

I’m ever so envious whenever I drop by Jason’s place and play with his Tivo, so since Tivo won’t come to us Danes, we’ll build something even better ourselves. That’s right!

I already have the external firewire drive to beef up the storage and since I’m getting it with the airport extreme card it’ll fit right into the stereo rack under the TV. Oh, got the bluetooth builtin as well, so it can be controlled with Salling Clicker from that wonderful phone of mine.

Can’t wait to stop complaining about how we got 40 channels with nothing on.

But I am into drinks. Pour ‘em on!

Smalltalk is definitely the next programming language that I want to learn. I read recently read Kent Beck’s Smalltalk Best Practices and gained a lot from his teachings.

Now the only thing we need is for Ambrai Smalltalk to mature to the point where it feels like Smalltalk isn’t a second-hand version on OS X compared to VisualWorks or Squeak.