mway’s blog

Before I start, I’d just like to say that recently, one of the better ideas I’ve had has been getting off of LiveJournal.  That isn’t to say that LJ isn’t a great platform in itself, because it is – I’ve used it extensively for the past 5+ years – but I’d assume that everyone gets to a point where they realize that most of their blog following is angsty teenage girls, which is a problem.  That, and the typical LJ crowd seems to be people that society has extensively rejected in one way or another.  I suppose that makes me look like a real winner, but hey, we all have to grow up sometime.

On a slightly less berating note, it’s no mystery that I am easily amused.  So much so, in fact, that things like F My Life and Texts From Last Night are staples in my otherwise mindlessly busy day.  I discovered the latter today, actually, as is evident by the following:

And finally, a personal (albeit unwitting) contribution from one of my best friends:

I’m not sure how buffalos or crazy boat sex got into the mix, but I mean, I’ll take it.  Just… without the buffalos.  That’s weird.

Moving on…

In the past week, I’ve doled out 5 full (new) sites, made countless enhancements to existing sites, fixed 40 bajillion bugs in others’ code, and slept for a whopping 15 hours (total).  I’m aware that some of you get that much in a day (seriously, after 12 hours I consider it a mini coma).  I’m currently working on the following:

• A new CMS for Situation
• A RESTful API for the Situation CMS
• A module wrapper for Google Analytics’ new API
• An IMDB-esque site (in data, volume, and function) for New York City Opera
• Various jQuery plugins (improved & customizable form validation, Twitter/YouTube API integration, etc)
• A media distribution system to manage videos via YouTube & Amazon

plus about 40 billion other things that are still at the drawing board.  Most of the above use Rails; some of my team are new to it (and frameworking in general), so the past few weeks have been a good chance to introduce them and get them started with best practices and RESTful web development.  We’d previously used CakePHP almost exclusively, so to them, this is Christmas come early.

In other news, SeeqPod has been down for the past week, which is not okay.  This means that I’ve been forced to resort to shared iTunes libraries at work and last.fm, which never is really quite as gratifying.  Oh well.  I’m hoping that’s fixed soon.  And while I’m tossing pennies into the well, I might as well go for work slowing down a bit this summer so I have a chance to work on more internal (aka, beta run before releasing as open source) apps.  And more sleep.  And world peace.  That’d be nice.