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About me
Everlasting student. Interested in X for all X.
Feel free to contact me at `echo -n ska@unfuers.pbz | tr a-z n-za-m`.
Certification
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2 May 2008 (updated 2 May 2008 at 22:40 UTC) »
Interview in Rails TakeFive
FiveRuns has published an interview with me which is part of their Rails TakeFive series.
Goodbye signature
Some years ago I started to systematically skip "Hello"s and "Regards"s in mails. Most of my mails are written to just say something and courtesy formulas like those add nothing but length. There are times where you feel you need to use them, but nowadays for me those are just a few.
I still use my signature in most of my mails:
-- fxn
and I am getting tired of that. My name goes already in the From header, and since the mail is so direct that signature sometimes may look even assertive. It brings no information, it is inertia from previous standards. So I think I'll systematically cut that one as well.
12 Apr 2008 (updated 12 Apr 2008 at 01:15 UTC) »
doc-rails
It's been a few weeks working in doc-rails.
The Rails API lacks writing conventions because that's the aggregate work of a lot of people. You know, different tenses, lack of consistent typography, etc. The purpose of this project is not necessarily to fix that, though I'd say that's within scope, but when you revise and write new documentation you need to make choices. So one of the first things we did was to write a few guidelines.
Now, there's a lot of work to do and by now there are systematic revisions going on (that is going file by file in some Rails module), new documentation chunks here and there, tweaks, and transversal revisions (me myself grepped the source tree to find symbols in regular font for example). We monitor and fix doc patches in Rails Trac as well.
Once a week Rails core member Pratik merges the changes into Rails edge.
Being able to contribute to this project is great because you know, if you find something to fix you have the mean to do it right away. A few days ago for instance I wanted to understand a patch to ActiveRecord::Associations::AssociationProxy, and that class lacked documentation. I needed to figure everything from the source code. Not the following guy! I sat down, wrote it, and git pushed. That's fantastic!
Barcelona.pm
After Tim and Joel, I am honoured to have been elected as president of Barcelona.pm.
MacBook Stolen
Precisely after the votation I realized my backpack had disappeared! There was my MacBook inside. Fortunately my private data is safe at Google, and Time Machine will prevent any data loss, so in the end it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I leave the serial here in case someone does a web search: 4H62911WVMN.
19 Mar 2008 (updated 19 Mar 2008 at 20:19 UTC) »
doc-rails
Patches in Rails Trac need +1s to get the verified status and eventually be committed. Fine small doc patches sometimes just don't bring enough attention and they don't get applied.
Rails committer Pratik Naik has setup a git repository aimed at easing contributions to the docs. I think this is going to be very good. If you are qualified and have a github account you can get committer rights, just follow the instructions in the announcement.
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