Do you understand documentation? 14 Dec 2012

OS X Developers fool as me can't read this doc well:

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Learn Ruby on Rails 21 Aug 2011

I started to learn Ruby on Rails in 2006, when I was still a full time .NET developer. At that time many ASP.NET and C# projects had began to implement features borrowed from Rails, since I had some Ruby experience back in 2003 I asked myself: why not try Rails. So I just dit it and never regret.

As many other developers I believe Rails should be quite easy to learn, especially if you have seen this ruby rails vs java web book stacks picture (you should have if you are a Rails developer from version 1.2 or earlier):

Path of Gmail Notifr 27 Jul 2011

I started Gmail Notifr in Oct 2008 to learn RubyCocoa and OS X Cocoa programming. From day one, I myself was an end user. I felt more productive when I was able to receive new gmail notifications at a longer interval - I don't need instance disturbing - that was the most important feature I wanted to build.

After a couple of long nights, I released v0.6.0 (Lion test build) and v0.6.1 (Lion compatible). It has been 11 months since the last release (v0.5.2)! Although no version has ever been released since 0.5.2, I've been refactoring the codebase actively. Not surprisingly, 0.6+ is a toy written in MacRuby, which needs no introduction.

家人的在留资格通过了 28 Aug 2010

收到了入管局寄来的老婆孩子的家族滞在在留资格。下周EMS回去,他们就可以去大使馆申请签证了。

我过来已经两个半月了。日语基本上还没入门,不过这边什么都方便,所以日常生活和工作都很顺利。同事朋友帮了无数的忙,今后恐怕还要经常劳烦他们。肉麻感谢的话就不说了,内心是十二分的感激的。

消息一枚:东渡工作 01 Jun 2010

几年来我一直在做 freelancing ,接的项目基本上都是 Rails 工程。虽然收入会有起伏,工作上也难免会有大大小小的烦恼,但比起窝在办公司里全职上班要舒服很多。我有更多的时间看书,学习感兴趣的东西,结交不同行业的新朋友,参加有意义的社区活动; 最重要的是,有更多的机会看着儿子出生、一天天调皮的长大。

因着 twitter 和 mac 开发,我结识了 乐乐 @xu_lele徐哲 @xuzhe。他们在日本创业,公司 Rakuraku Technologies, Inc. 目前主要从事教育行业 iPhone/iPad 软件开发和互联网应用开发。我们非常谈得来,我也慢慢的有了加入他们去日本全职工作的想法。

如何轻松慢跑5公里 21 Apr 2010

近来朋友中开始跑步锻炼的人越来越多了。我从去年秋天开始慢跑,锻炼两个月后(每周三次左右)能够不间断跑5公里,这在之前是自己不敢想象的。学生时代我就非常厌烦跑步,觉得这是一种既枯燥乏味又很辛苦折磨人的锻炼方式。临近30岁(现在已经30出头了,哈),突然发现自己喜欢的其他运动或锻炼方式(滑板,篮球)要么就是凑不到伙伴一起玩,要不就是太受条件限制无法坚持。

稍作“研究”后我发现慢跑是一种比较合适的体育锻炼方式──只要我能克服自己对它的无端厌烦情绪──有氧运动,不容易受伤,受条件限制少(主要是天气,下面会说到),既可以一个人玩也可以几个朋友一起进行、资金投入也不多。