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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

Plantworking: social networking for gardeners [www.plantworking.com]

I've created a website called Plantworking, which is a place to get answers to your questions from other people in your climate. It also acts as a collaborative garden log.

To understand the idea behind Plantworking, try and imagine if everyone on Facebook or Twitter was only posting topics that were related to gardening. Imagine the usefulness of that!

I'm actively working on the site, and I'd appreciate any feedback you might have.

http://www.plantworking.com

09:12 AM, 08 Jun 2010 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

How to install plugins on Rails 3 (and workaround an issue)

$ rails plugin install http://github.com/rails/exception_notification.git
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
warning: Option "depth" is ignored for http://github.com/rails/exception_notification.git

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD

I found the bug report here and used the workaround suggested there:

cd vendor/plugins/
git clone -q http://github.com/rails/exception_notification.git

OR EVEN BETTER

git submodule add http://github.com/rails/exception_notification.git vendor/plugins/exception_notification

09:33 AM, 25 May 2010 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (1)

Don't comment your code

If you're commenting your code, it's not clear enough.

02:25 PM, 05 May 2010 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (0)

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