Comments for Dan Ahern

Comment on Rails Rumble ‘08 by mikhailov

mikhailov — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:05 +0000

It was great event for us, because give the time together, expirience and joy with rails. Thanks to the railsrumble!

Comment on Tech Demo by Maverick Conceptions » Blog Archive » Rumble 2008… What I Learned

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:07:02 +0000

[...] and administration, neither which would have helped us achieve our goal in anyway. Dan wrote a great article outline the work he did before hand and I signed up to Linode and ran practice drills so I knew the [...]

Comment on Rails Rumble by mikhailov

mikhailov — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:20:14 +0000

This event was unique! Participation in this competition has given me the knowledge and skills in programming

Comment on On Multiple Projects by John

John — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:50:36 +0000

Another great online tool for tracking tickets and managing projects is Intervals. You advised not to leave things hanging, which is a good thing to remember. Intervals is great because it sends out reminders and task updates. Thanks for the great post.

Comment on On Multiple Projects by Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:30:55 +0000

One important aspect to managing and organizing tasks is knowing how much time you’re actually spending on different items.

http://timer.vertabase.com

The Vertabase Timer is a great, handy widget that has helped thousands of people get a better handle on their time usage.

Comment on SVN & GIT by danahern

danahern — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:22:12 +0000

Thanks! I was looking at an SVN-GIT crash course document and must have missed it, but now I’ve got it reverting great.

Comment on SVN & GIT by Pieter

Pieter — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:03:41 +0000

Checking out a previous revision is just ‘git checkout ” in git

Comment on Phone Conversions by danahern

danahern — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:26:51 +0000

Maybe the iPhone is meant to be a double handed phone and I’m just used to my old phones were I can whip it out and check my call log or change a setting with one hand. But when navigating menus the choice for the back button in the upper left corner makes it impossible to hit the back button without stretching my thumb on my right hand all the way across the phone. If the navigation was at the bottom instead it would provide much nicer usability (The google maps app is an example of how well this could work). The only time I had to double hand the Nokia was when I was typing and flipped it out to reveal both sides of the keyboard.

I’m going to try to take some pictures of what I like and don’t like on the UI.

Comment on Phone Conversions by Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:33:50 +0000

I think most of the flaws you point to will fade with familiarity, and most of the positives you point to will persist. Text entry, for instance, annoyed the crap out of me when I first got the phone, but now I find it very convenient. With the addition of Exchange support, I now use it for work email, too, and will routinely hold entire conversations just tapping away on the soft-pad. Give it another week, then see how it feels.

I’d like to hear more, however, about how the UI annoys you. I don’t find errant touches (like the back button problem you point out) to be much of a problem. Also, I’m frankly happy for the lack of cluttered interface that would occur if Apple hadn’t really committed to the touchscreen. I’m glad there’s not other inputs. What else don’t you like?

Since Lynn mandates that every fanboi post end with something negative, I will offer you this… yes, the inability to sync with multiple machines sucks.

Comment on Initiation by fire - part 3 by Dan on Rails: Part Three at Powered By Geek

Dan on Rails: Part Three at Powered By Geek — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:33:56 +0000

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