My buddy Kyle and I just got finished rolling out a new version of the YumDrop.com Lingerie site! Its super easy to navigate now and there’s lots of new product for people to look at and buy. Here are just some of the new features in this version!
And don’t worry, we’ll be hard at work on new features for upcoming versions!
After a long period of waffling, I finally ordered myself a 17″ MacBook Pro. I just couldn’t pass up on the clearance sale MacMall was having on them. $1970.69 after I upgraded to FedEx Priority Overnight shipping, it cost me less than the PowerBook Pismo G3 I purchased in 2000 ($2000 plus tax with an education discount). The best part of the whole MacMall experience was the fact that I ordered it around 7:00 PM EST and received it by 10:30 AM EST the next day! Talk about service!
As I said in a previous post about integrating WordPress with my Rails site, I’m a huge fan of things integrating easily. I wanted some pictures on my site and I have some on Flickr, so what would be easier than using the Flickr API to show photos on my site? So how to do this in Rails? A quick Google search turned up this!
Whoa, look at that!
Install a gem, make sure the new files are in my railties lib directory (because my application is frozen), get a Flickr API key, write four or five lines of code, and I had this! God I love ease of use and reusability.
So I’m probably one of the last people on the planet to see Borat and probably the last (well, maybe not really) to review it. I’d have to say it was definitely worth the $5 I paid to see it (ok, my girlfriend paid, but I bought dinner!). Would it be worth the nearly $10 it’d cost to see it the first month it was out? Maybe…probably…ok, yeah!
Parts of it were definitely hilarious (why I find two naked guys wrestling funny is beyond me) and there are parts that I was just like, wtf is wrong with this guy. The people who are sueing him are stupid…you got what you deserved (stupid college guys…stupid even for drunk college guys).
The most interesting part of this movie to me anyway is how successfully he portrays different groups of Americans for who they really are. Do you think the church goers at the end of the movie will realize how ridiculous they appear? Or how about how stuck up the people at the dinner party are? And again the college guys on the road trip.
Somehow I doubt it…and that’s the sad part.
A while back, I finally decided that I needed my own presence on the web. Something that had a nice layout and not the plain black & white sites I’d had in the past. Already having put together part of a site built in Ruby on Rails, I didn’t want to start over, though WordPress is basically a “Web Site in a Can.” So what I did was integrate WordPress with my Rails site. Wow was this easy. Not nearly as painful as it was trying to integrate Typo with a Ruby on Rails site, as I had tried a few months back.
Since my site is hosted on Dreamhost, I just had to create a new MySQL database and complete the one click install. The only “gotcha” was having to set up the .htaccess file in the blog root directory. Previously with Typo, I was stuck integrating two Ruby on Rails applications in one web root, mucking with .htaccess files and Rewrites, and that didn’t even include getting the blog posts easily accessible from the root web application. Hey, maybe I just didn’t take enough time to figure it out, but I figure these things should be easy!
WordPress and Rails integration was no big deal at all!