Unit Testing

I’ve finally got the hang of writing unit test cases in Ruby and going through refactor-compile-test cycles. Something I’d really like to see though is a GTK+ UI similar to JUnit/NUnit. I haven’t googled to see if anybody’s already working on it, but if not I may just have to add another Thing to my list.

Rails 0.12.1 is smooth

I did a ‘gem update rails’ yesterday and finally managed to get Rails cooperating with Apache and FastCGI. While the WEBrick script is convenient, I wanted to make sure I could deploy an application on Apache and FastCGI. For my “getting-to-know-the-Rails-API” application, I also switched the database backend from MySQL to PostgreSQL with some minor snafus regarding authentication. But all is well, and I think I’ll be playing with the new AJaX transition effects soon.

Nabi, the Korean input method for Linux

A couple weeks ago, I installed Nabi (which means 'butterfly' in Korean) that allows me to switch from typing English text to Korean text in X. I thought IMing in Korean would be another great way to practice vocabulary and sentence construction. I managed to teach myself to transcribe readings at a decent clip. I also noticed the keyboard layout seems to borrow some comfort and efficiency principles from the Dvorak keyboard layout. Now I just need to start IMing my relatives more often or hop on battle.net to have flamewars with Starcraft players.

No, I REALLY need to buy a digital camera

Last week, I was in my friend’s wedding. At the rehearsal dinner, I got to take a lot of pictures using other peoples’ cameras and I’m upset that I couldn’t bring the cameras home afterwards and import them into Flickr and F-Spot. Since I’m very selective about what kind of advertising I’m exposed to, I’ll just have to do some window shopping at camera stores and more reading on Photoshop to brainwash myself into prioritizing dropping the buck on a kickass digicam over rent and food.