Dan Ahern

Rails Rumble was an amazing experience.  I think I slept about 6 hours over a 56 hour period and while I became grouchy I don’t think I ever stopped having fun.  The fun stopped after the first day of voting.  Starting during the second day of voting I <3 Games plummeted in the rankings.  I [...]

If you’ve ever been a contractor you too have faced the juggling act that is having many different projects in the air.  There is quite a bit of work that goes in to just managing those projects, much less actually doing the work on them.  I’m going to write a bit about how I handle [...]

In the recent past there have been a ton of applications that I’ve followed almost religiously.  I’d read forum posts about how their software or service was coming along great, then they disappear off the face of the planet for months of a time, with no updates.  Lynn Wallenstein and I were talking last night [...]

With the recent change over to my Mac, I’ve started to really take a look at the differences between SVN and GIT.  I’m still in the process of learning how to use both bundles for TextMate so when I’m actually in “work mode” I’ll usually forego playing around and just use the command line and [...]

Recently I was asked to look into doing some customizations for the Mephisto blog for a customer.  I figured “well it’s Rails, and I know rails, so sure I could do it”.  However, thirty minutes after opening up the code I decided that Mephisto is no longer really a Rails application.  I know I’m going [...]

Starting with this post I’m going to try a new format for my writing style as recommended by Lynn.  Focus more on bullet points and logical breaks, less on writing what comes to mind.

Why I do it?
What I do?
How do I do it?
What I’ve learned?

Why I do it?
Lately, due to an abundance of free time, [...]