Kudos to the Carsonified crew for crafting up a few free Macbook and iPhone covers and giving them away for free to a lucky select few. Submissions for those wanting to shield their Macvices (better than a device, it’s a Macvice!) from the cold, harsh realities of the world had to be in by yesterday (nooooo!) but in any case, the covers are still nice to look at. Even nicer is the story of how HugMyMac came to be. The Carsonified-ers basically shut-down their office for a week to just jam on a creative and fun project. HugMyMac was the result. Hooray for fun!

As far as Rails blogging is concerned, I have moved permanently from my old Ruby on Rails blogging get up at NoobOnRails over to this here, Ok with Failure. I didn't really do as much blogging back then as I would have liked but I was really in cram mode trying to learn as much as I could about any and everything web related. Now that I've got a full on Ruby on Rails gig at the oh-so-awesome integrum, I've decided to jump back into this whole "blogging" thing and give'er a good what for.

The Ruby on Rails landscape has changed quite a bit since I stopped posting at NoobOnRails, and there's a lot on that site that doesn't really apply anymore. For anyone who's read anything I wrote on that blog, here's a quick rundown of what is or isn't important or what has or hasn't changed.

First off, acts_as_taggable is long gone my friends. Once upon a time, there was an acts_as_taggable plugin that was pretty nifty when it came out. It did it's thing for a while, then everyone freaked out when there seemed to be an "official" acts_as_taggable plugin coming from DHH himself. Well, they're both pretty much "dead". The plugin may still scratch a few itches out there, but that old hotness has been replaced with Evan Weaver's "has_many_polymorphs" hotness.

Second, I'm still learning awesome MacBook tips everyday. A good one I've learned recently is that you can zoom in and out right there on your desktop. Just hold "ctrl" and do the two-finger scoll thing on your trackpad and watch your world get rocked. It's been great to have something that easy to fine tune CSS placements. All I need know is a "do that thing I could do on my pc, no, not that, yeah, that one" shortcut of somekind and I'll be set.

Third, hmm, well, I think that really covers anything that anyone may have read on my other blog so yeah, I'll get back to posting goodies here.