Archive for the 'Wes's Boring Life' Category

SR-410 MP 107 10-11-2009

SR-410 MP 107 10-11-2009

Originally uploaded by Washington State Dept of Transportation

It takes a giant landslide to destroy a quarter mile of road way. It’s the end of summer, it hasn’t rained yet here… what was the tipping point for it?

Cleaning up your Address Book on OS X with Ruby

Lately I’ve been working on mailing out wedding invitations. The easiest way to print address labels on OS X is to select contacts or a group in Address Book, hit print and change the Page option to “Avery Standard” then select the label type. Easy. The hard part is getting all those [...]

Exploring test driven development with Javascript: A look at jsunit, JSSpec, and Screw.Unit

I gave a talk at Seattle Code Camp on testing Javascript about TDD (test driven development) in Javascript using jsunit, JSSpec and Screw.Unit. One thing to come out of this is a github project that is setup to allow you to test your javascript against all three frameworks in one package:

http://github.com/wesmaldonado/test-driven-javascript-example-application/tree/master

Just [...]

Seattle’s Interbay is no South Lake Union

“You can’t compare this to South Lake Union or downtown,” he says. “Not all areas are created equal.” Jeff Thompson, of the Freehold Group, the development company that has spearheaded the Dravus effort Seattle Times: Red tape fences in Interbay overhaul

Have a look at this google map for a compare [...]

I’m not crazy, the thing on the wire is real… unfortunately.

For the past week Jodi has seen “something outside the window” and I didn’t believe her. Finally yesterday I saw it also. I couldn’t just sit by while a rat/mouse was running on the wire so I had to stalk it and get its picture. Tonight I sat on the deck camera [...]