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so i didn’t sleep today in an effort to correct my rapidly slipping sleep schedule in time for the weekend and the super bowl and such. as bloody stupid as it sounds the reason for this problem is that i like garroting and strangling fake people using wiimotes. that is, i have been playing the godfather video game.

additionally, i don’t remember. oh yes. classes do and don’t matter at the same time. it is pretty difficult to think about what class to take on no sleep, or whether or not it even matters. actually in this sleep deprived state i am thinking more and more about the real decision i have to make in the next few months–whether or not to try again for medical school. am i really cut out for it? i know i can make it and succeed, but i question my mentality, my freedom, the system.

is this the first thing i wrote after the new year? i don’t remember that either. anyway, i am working on my resolutions now. but i’m not going to tell you what they are.

would you like a donut? i promise i won’t poke you in the eye.

but here is what i learned along my first real week of making something in rails

1. set up svn early. if you’re working alone on leopard and don’t need remote svn service, that’s easy.

svnadmin create file://SVN_PATH
svn import WORKING_DIRECTORY file://SVN_PATH
svn checkout FILES file://SVN_PATH


2. update and build whatever you need. again, for leopard users, i just followed the instructions at hivelogic. i built mysql and made little executable scripts to run the start and stop server commands in their instructions. i don’t know enough about how to build a pref pane but maybe sometime soon?

3. rails documentation is total shit. seriously. more on that later. i actually found that the agile book sucked ass. they don’t really explain how to do basic things before having you build this depot shopping thing.

sorry if this bores the shit of non-nerd, non-programming people out there. i used to like programming but rails has taken some of that love away, because it’s too hack-y. it is very fast to do stuff in once you know what you’re doing, but i get this feeling that the whole thing wasn’t particularly well-planned.

i am out $20 because he stuffs our mail into the little slot that is NOT PART OF THE MAILBOX AREA

also he randomly confuses our box with the box for apt 1