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Recent books read by Jade:
Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck
Beck is great.

Posted by Jade Rubick on April 17, 2008 - Permalink
Software Estimation by Steve McConnell
Another great book by Steve McConnell. I'd read his other books first, which are classics, but this is also really good.

Posted by Jade Rubick on April 17, 2008 - Permalink
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
Very heavy reading, but fascinating.

Posted by Jade Rubick on April 17, 2008 - Permalink
Recent books read by Kate:
Name All the Animals : A Memoir by Smith, Alison
My dad sent me this book after he heard Smith read in Northampton, MA.  Brave memoir about the loss of her brother when she was very young, and how that event shaped the future of her family.

Posted by Kate Rubick on December 02, 2004 - Permalink
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books by -
I read the first book when it came out years ago on the advice of a very astute young adult librarian I know named Marin.  I picked this up in the airport in Portland on the way to NY.  I saw the title Dangerous Angels and somehow missed that it was all Weetzie Bat. Anyway, I read it all and was charmed.  Wow, who would have thought that Weetzie would ever grow up...

Posted by Kate Rubick on December 01, 2004 - Permalink
The Secret Life of Bees by Kidd, Sue Monk
A friend gave this to me early in the summer.  I don't know, I guess I get tired of the American coming of age of the abused child story.  There was some delicious imagery with the hives and some eccentric characters.  It read to me more like a YA novel than an adult one.  Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it didn't even read like an unusually good YA novel.  I give it a B.

Posted by Kate Rubick on December 01, 2004 - Permalink
Jade's weblog

Hello this is 9-1-1, can I have your insurance number please?

Another reason for national health insurance is the stupid fights you have with your insurance company.

We called an ambulance for an emergency with our daughter (it turned out fine, that's another story), and when the bill came, it turns out that THIS PARTICULAR AMBULANCE COMPANY is not freakin' covered by UNITED HEALTH CARE's stupid insurance.

Can you imagine? Like you're supposed to ask 911 when you call, "do you take United Health Care?"

%&(@ng insurance companies.

06:14 PM, 29 Aug 2008 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Setting up git commit emails

We're moving Volunteer Solutions to git this week. One thing that wasn't documented well was how to set up git emails.

There is a git-notify script out there, but in contrib there is post-receive-email.

It's actually easy to set up:

cd .git/hooks
mv post-receive post-receive.bak
ln -s /path/to/post-receive-email post-receive
chmod a+x /path/to/post-receive-email
git config --add hooks.mailinglist "email@address.com"
git config hooks.emailprefix "[scms]"
emacs ../description (make first line short description, then add more later)

Note that the script seemed to only send emails when they were pushed from outside.

02:58 PM, 12 Jun 2008 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

Obama has a better shot at winning the general election [www.nytimes.com]

"When pollsters offer voters hypothetical matchups, Mr. Obama does better than Mrs. Clinton against Mr. McCain. For example, a Cook Political Report poll of registered voters released this week found Mr. McCain beats Mrs. Clinton, 45 percent to 41 percent. But Mr. Obama beats Mr. McCain, 45 percent to 43 percent. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll found similar results.

Mr. Obama also has the highest approval rating of any major candidate among independents, 62 percent, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll. He also has unusually low negatives, which gives him upside potential."

11:48 AM, 07 Feb 2008 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

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