Monkinetic Weblog

Quick observation: it's funny how our early years in a community shape our views. For example: In my brain, Dave Winer is the default "Dave" on the internet. Wes Felter is the only "Wes" on the internet, and Jim Roepcke is the default "Jim". Any time I see any of these names in isolation online, these are the guys my brain puts up on the viewscreen.

I've moved some of my longer, article-style content over to Wordpress from my Drupal site. All this stuff is also linked in the "More Monkinetic" sidebar, and points to the new locations:

Jodi and I and the kiddo went to a sneak peak showing of Ratatouille Saturday night, and I cannot encourage everyone enough to go see it. It was FANTASTIC - easily the best movie I've seen in ages. The writing is excellent, the story is both conceptually simple yet complex in its depth. Jason Kottke captures a lot of my reaction to the film in his review of Ratatouille (my apologies for the large-scale quoting, but I want to preserve these bits):

Jim Roepcke has a new development blog, Willing To Fail ("Fearless Research & Development"), and he's been writing about a new project he's working on, Rails on Rules. It's an implementation of a rules engine for Ruby on Rails applications, based loosely on the engine in Direct To Web, a rules-based application framework for Apple's WebObjects.

1. It's called Bajooter. How cool is that name?
2. He has fingerprints in his logo. Fingerprints FTW!
3. He's a young, indie web developer, and is writing about how to make a small web development shop work.
4. He's also writing to educate clients, which is something we web developers generally suck at.
5. He's a musician with a really cool band name.
6. He's educating me about SEO, without shoving that stupid acronym/term down my throat.
7. Fingerprints yay!

I can't remember if I posted about this when I put up the "On This Day In..." widget, but I finally got my widgets (both On This Day In... and the hCard About Box) into the public monkinetic widgets repository. Browse the repository here.

I was looking at that last post, and noticed a change in applications menus:

Engadget:

About 3 months ago I was transferred to a new group at work, to help them finish up a release, then to start in on some new features. Well, we are about one week from release, and we're in crunch mode. Because of the increased focus, and stress, posting here has almost dried up! Sorry about that.

The iPhone wannabes have already started. This one has "TouchFLO&trademark". smirk

Man, I really wish I could go to d.Construct this year. It looks like it's going to be great.

I've been a huge fan of Dan Cederholm for a long time. Dan helped started the wine community Cork'd with Dan Benjamin, which has been long supported ad-wise by Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library TV.

>But there's more. At work, if you are unlikable, people start thinking you are less competent. So stop thinking you can skate by on your genius IQ because you can't. You need emotional intelligence as well. This situation is so pronounced that there are special-education classrooms rife with kids who could read when they were three. Social skills matter as much as intelligence when it comes to long-term success, even for the geniuses.

Oh, man, Chud has the goods: HALO 3 BETA MULTIPLAYER video.

One year ago today, some fun with a new flash header for this site. A fun experiment that managed to creep some people out and offend others. Oh well. :-)

Ok, hoping I can wrap up this little rant over Buildr's RDocs. I just left a comment over on Assaf's post, Patience, Buildr docs coming up, and I liked the way it came out so I wanted to reproduce it here:

Now that's how it's supposed too work.