Kestrel's Nest

Just stopping by to note that it’s been over a year since I wrote anything here. Huh. All my action these days is on Twitter (and echoed on my right sidebar under the old musty photos).

Just popping in to say that the Food Network deadline was extended again, to November 15. I think the reason is the unexpected departure of Mario Batalli from the network. As one of the Iron Chefs, they needed to replace him. Which they’re doing with a show very similar to “The Next Food Network Star”… Continue reading More Delays

I got some great feedback on my video, and I’ve made another cut to reflect them. I inserted 11 seconds at the beginning to set up the local food idea (something I’d cut out earlier in the editing), and to make up for that time I trimmed 11 seconds in several bits throughout the rest… Continue reading The Final Cut (Maybe)

So, I’ve been watching “The Next Food Network Star” on (of all places) the Food Network, and I get to thinking, “Hey — I can do that better than they are!” And a little ad comes up saying that the network is now looking for contestants for the next season, and all it takes is… Continue reading Another Victim of Reality TV Syndrome

The last week has seen a lot of changes to the Slingshot codebase that have made much of my previous work obsolete. That’s OK, though… the newest code takes care of a lot of the troubles I had getting things going. I’m going to be doing a live demonstration of Slingshot in its entirety tomorrow… Continue reading Live Demonstration of Slingshot

When I last left you, I had moved a scratch copy of my application to a shiny new Joyent Accelerator, brought it current with Rails, and was preparing to migrate new created_at and updated_at columns to my database. All that went well. Several of my models already had created_on (date) fields, but Slingshot needed more… Continue reading Slingshot On Target

Last Friday, I received the Slingshot SDK (Software Developer Kit). About an hour later, I had a copy of my Rails application running in an off-line, fully self-contained environment. Of course, that was only the beginning, but it did right away show that you could use Slingshot to quickly deploy stand alone Rails applications. Slingshot… Continue reading Exploring Joyent Slingshot

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Dylan Hears a Who! I’ve been meaning to post about some of the fine, fine music I’ve found here and there on the ‘net recently. I just started listening to this a few moments ago, and had to rush here to tell you all about it. This is far, far better than it had any… Continue reading Dylan Hears a Who!

Here’s a letter I sent out to my mailing list last night: — Hello again! It’s Eric, the fellow working on the on-line farmers’ market software you were at one time interested in. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written you, so I though it was time for an update. The system has come… Continue reading Just a few more weeks…