All Comments From Blogs Administrated By John Metta

Mettadore / Stop being stupid about belongs_to!

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:29:03 +0000

Dave - Because subject and verb agreement in English says that when the noun is singular, the verb is plural (and vice versa). The cat climbs the tree. The cats climb the tree.

Mettadore / Stop being stupid about belongs_to!

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:29:29 +0000

Don Park - how can belongs_to be singular when the word belongs ends in an 's'? stupid English language.

Mettadore / Secure password generator-as-manager without single-point failure

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:06:16 +0000

John Metta - Daniel, Possible of course, although that would significantly limit the security of the algorithm, at least in the way I'm originally envisioning it. The point of it being a device app is that it's easy to use it and generate the passwords from your parameters in a "leave no trace" manner. You can tell the Bash shell to ignore that command in history, easily clear it from the terminal, create a shortcut (Quickbar, LaunchBar, similar for windows) that copies it to the clipboard and exits without showing it, etc. On a phone things are similiar. My thought was that without direct manipulation of the RAM, the password, and parameters that generate the password, would not be stored, and everything would be local and ephemeral. Not so with a web app. An API requires calls, and calls are logged, thrown about on external servers, and mostly sent in plain text. You could make it an SSL or TLS connection, I guess, to encrypt the call, but that seems like a lot of trouble for something that would be easier to secure on the device and seems to gain small benefit from being available as a web app. You'll have to really explore the security aspects of it being a web app, and see if the API approach can be made secure enough.

Mettadore / Secure password generator-as-manager without single-point failure

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:12:33 +0000

Techwraith - Awesome idea John, I'd love to try to make it a web service with an API. I'll look into it :)

Mettadore / The @TwitterAPI kids say "size doesn't matter"

Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:16:53 +0000

Metroknow - I think you're right - and I think it's a pretty brilliant move on Twitter's part. There must be a camp that is opposed to the idea - I'd like to know the downside. Ultimately _somebody_ is collecting all that tasty data, why not Twitter?

Mettadore / The @TwitterAPI kids say "size doesn't matter"

Wed, 9 Jun 2010 01:19:08 +0000

Techwraith - Spot on John. It seems at this point that twitter is innovating faster itself than the large twitter app ecosystem itself. Perhaps it is because of this ecosystem though.

Either way, I would love to get my hands on that database.

Mettadore / RedGreen gem conflicts with Autotest when using RSpec

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:27:10 +0000

Bruce - You should check your ~/.autotest and remove require 'redgreen/autotest' from it to get rid of this error. [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value.

Mettadore / Ruby Can't Scale!

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:25:13 +0000

Steve - I think I found a scale in my espresso. Oh Barista? BTW, what's GitHub? (Great post John - and yeah ok. I'm getting back to work now. No really!) [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value.

Mettadore / RedGreen gem conflicts with Autotest when using RSpec

Sat, 5 Jun 2010 04:19:48 +0000

Amy - You should check your ~/.autotest and remove require 'redgreen/autotest' from it to get rid of this error. [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value.

Mettadore / Rails, Authlogic, and strange errors like "user_url"

Mon, 31 May 2010 21:43:53 +0000

Data Controllers - this was suuupr hepful thanks so much ive been looking all over the place for this error!

Positively Glorious! / Wolf Leaves Salmon's Tail

Thu, 20 May 2010 04:06:07 +0000

Danno - dont know who joe is, but i also enjoyed the artistic way you placed the other animals inside the salmon. iv been looking for pics to modify more to my personal style of life. dont get me wrong you work needs no alteration, but i do enjoy to put my own spin on somthing that is going to be mine forever. i too was hoping to use your art for a basis to work on. like the wolf, im from idaho, but i would like to place a mule deer in place of the raven, and other minor changes obviously. my email is cheifyoyo@yahoo.com

Positively Glorious! / Barrett's Esophagus

Wed, 12 May 2010 14:58:42 +0000

thomas - hey i also feel ya im 19 now and have just got diagnosed with be and have to go back every year. the good news is if you keep taking the medication you might not get cancer "thank god" but ya i feel ya and gl mate.

Positively Glorious! / European By Day

Tue, 4 May 2010 12:40:49 +0000

karol - I do not know what you think about it but i would like to take it for me, i mean can i use it for my tatto. it's realy great idea this tattoo means a lot neve touhgt that would be possible to find this gold core to describe who am i and here it is simple and perfect.

Positively Glorious! / Barrett's Esophagus

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:40:42 +0000

kim - I feel your pain. I was diagnosed 12 years ago with BE, or maybe I should say BS. Anyway, I do the endo every 2 years also. In fact, I am scheduled for tomorrow. Tired of worrying about it, but what do we do. I don't want my esophagus yanked out with cancer. I also had the fundo. wrap. So my gut is also rapped around my esophagus. Anyway, maybe talking about it a bit will make it not feel so damn bad. Kim

Mettadore / Pivotal Tracker gets better with Github, Get Satisfaction, and more!

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:59:33 +0000

knoopx - hahaha, i would do it if someone creates a ruby plugin host for quicksilver

Positively Glorious! / Ben Hur and The Devaluing Of Jesus

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:53:28 +0000

kmcdade - Hold on, there's a hot, blond guy walking by... Seriously, this post delights me because these are the same kinds of things my husband and I (who do consider ourselves Christians) discuss often. And I agree about Ben Hur not really being a story of the Christ. And I think Lawrence Fishburne is teh awesome. And so are you.

Positively Glorious! / Wolf Leaves Salmon's Tail

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:12:51 +0000

John Metta - What kind? Bit of a weird question. Uh, the blogging kind?

Positively Glorious! / Wolf Leaves Salmon's Tail

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:05:14 +0000

Joe - What kind of Native are you if you don't mind me asking?

Mettadore / Ruby Can't Scale!

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:40:01 +0000

Scott - Hey, great article! I just wrote a follow-up: http://blog.sentientmonkey.com/post/470450184/rub...

Mettadore / Ruby Can't Scale!

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:48:33 +0000

Metroknow - I think I found a scale in my espresso. Oh Barista? BTW, what's GitHub? <ducking> (Great post John - and yeah ok. I'm getting back to work now. No really!)