Where’s a rich dying uncle when you need one?

Ubicon is slated for August 18th and 19th in Mountain View, CA at Google’s Headquarters. It’s even free! I just need a few plane tickets and I’ll be set.

From Ruby on Rails’ weblog:

Have you ever wanted to write Rails routes using a URL’s subdomain? What about routing based on whether a request was HTTP vs HTTPS? Well, now you can. Recently Dan Webb released his Request Routing Plugin for public use. This plugin lets you create routing rules that use a whole slew of new properties: domain, subdomain, method, port, remote_ip, content_type, accepts, request_uri, and protocol.

You can obtain the plugin from Dan’s subversion repository:

ruby script/plugin install \
http://svn.vivabit.net/external/rubylibs/request_routing/


Nice - this is the kind of thing that almost brings me to tears when it comes to sweet dynamic languages.

Take the red pill: http://www.nobugs.org/developer/ruby/method_finder.html

• I was SO close to closing the deal on my MythTV box. I had one more piece to purchase - the TV tuner card. I bought a WinFast 2000 XP RM at Fry’s Electronics (And really - Fry’s is one of the reasons why I moved to Phoenix) for a whopping $37. It was a good deal, but after fiddling with it for a few hours I realized that my poor little Celeron wasn’t up to snuff for software encoding. I need either a beefier CPU or a hardware encoding TV Tuner. I’m pulling for PVR-150 that I can find on sale. MythTV - you will be mine, oh yes - you will be mine.
• Phoenix is a cool place to live. We actually have good sports teams here. Suns anyone? pulling it out in double overtime against the Clippers was awesome! I’m not even a huge basketball fan, but man the Suns really get you going. I can hardly say that about the Utah Jazz. Plus the D-Backs aren’t half bad this year. Go AZ!
• Mmmm… Dapper Drake. Ubuntu’s latest kick-butt offering is almost on us. I’ve been running the pre-release since Flight 2 and it’s SO lovely. Stable has heck too.