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Wiki-riffic

Rather than go and pay for something as huge and as feature-laden as Confluence, I’ve decided to go the open source and free route.

I ended up using MediaWiki for HanMeta, but I’m not fully satisfied. Lacking in AJAX and using Dreamhost to host this wiki really doesn’t make it too responsive. I am however, enjoying relearning the insanity that is MediaWiki markup (Wikipedia uses this).

TiddlyWiki is an amazing feat of ridiculous JavaScripting, but seems to be missing some features… one of which is extremely important to me: history. I feel like a wiki isn’t without this feature.

Anyone know of any desktop Mac applications that does change history? I looked at VoodooPad, but that doesn’t seem to have that feature.

Seriously, anything that’s stable and exportable will be awesome, be it online or off. Change history is huge for me, because, as always, I need to know and be prepared for everything.

3 Weeks Remain

The long four day weekend was mostly spent on one of two things: Rock Band 2 and setting up for projects. And the Rock Band 2 stopped as soon as I completed the game in solo guitar mode. And no, I didn’t count the Endless Setlist… unless I can get 3 other kids to go all out for hours and hours on end.

This weekend was a blur. I don’t remember much of it. A lot of late night talks with Dean didn’t help the project progress, but was beneficial. As a sidenote, he’s my third impromptu roommate after I started living solo (I guess I should count that Jong-Sun kid, because he was over constantly, so four).

Moving on, I’m hoping to get the whole development environments set up tonight. It seems like my forearms aren’t even happy about my typing this entry. We’ll see if I’ll sleep happy or not.

Summary Of Said Weekend

I have these artifacts as evidence to the caffeinated stupor I was in.

The Six Cans of the Apocalypse

Remember, the green one’s the most tasty.

But yeah, working ’til the week hours of the night/morning, I popped on the sysadmin hat and rocked out. Finally after having installed MediaWiki (it’s a little slow, I need something faster… any suggestions?), I started to document the insanity.

I bought a new”er” slice at slicehost. I love how close to the metal all of the insanity is. I finally got to see how Derek worked his magic during the days of StatusFix… er… more like I copied and pasted commands, all the while man paging everything that went past my eyes. Lots to learn and screw up on so that I’ll learn even more.

Still need to work on Capistrano deployment from the git repository. Hoping to get this done tonight. Still not sure where I should be developing… should I be using my computer for both dev and test? Hmm.

Lots to chew this week. But indeed, only three weeks remain.

Time to Start

Sitting in front of my computer. 8 PM. I have the next 4 hours to rock out on any projects I would like.

Eyes hurting. Wrists burning. Ankles twitching. Whatever.

I really haven’t done a project in a while. It’s interesting to start up again.

Too many things swirl up in my mind. The biz hat. The dev hat. Do I have to wear both? I guess for a little while, I’m going to try and develop this thing on my own. It’ll be a good experience to see how much I know and how much more I don’t.

I have a large amount of past diagrams and outlines I’ve created, just for this moment. Months and months of planning. Just planning. No code. Just diagrams on napkins and dreams in my mind.

My skills in JavaScript is lacking, but I’ve already decided on jQuery as the library of choice. My skills in Ruby is lacking, but I’ve already decided on Rails as the choice (and even though I hear lovely things about Merb).

Stressing the Intro

I remember in high school, I was told to start with the body of the intro-body-conclusion style essays… That it helps somehow in the formation of the essay.

I could never do it that way. I had to just start. Start from the intro. Just start busting it out. Then an impromptu list would begin to form, out of thin air. I’d start formulating the arguments and throwing down the supporting points.

In that same way, I have to just start.

What’s really making me afraid is I’ve never written a book in this manner before. The fear is that I’ll be going down the wrong path.

No, I don’t want to hear about Rails not scaling. It’s not that at all. It’s the fact that this initial plan might somewhere along the line hamper the projects growth. The fact that, if I don’t position my first step correctly, I’ll sprain my ankle and miss out on the season to come.

But to run… even that marathon… I guess each step is a risk. All of life is a risk.

So suck it up. And be awesome instead.

Goals for tonight?

Start coding. Even one line will do. Just one. And then we’ll see where it goes from here.

Chances are, I’ll end up throwing that single line away anyway. Don’t think too much about the source management tool you’ll end up using, the bug tracking system you’ll end up working with, the browser incompatibility you’ll have to deal with…

Take a holistic approach. This is sometimes a problem of mine, and it applies for anything as big as this. I think that’s the way with a lot of people.

Sidenote: I have to understand that some of my weaknesses and downfalls are presented in the whole human race. I need to stop thinking that my problems are so much more important than others.

One line. Time to get cracking. Oh, that one line, and maybe a couple posts or something.

Letting the Anger Simmer and Fuel TWNBT

It’s one of those posts, isn’t it?

You betcha. Josh Kim’s patented really-vague-for-everyone-else-but-to-the-point-for-those-that-it-applies-to post. I mean, I could have just as easily not made this public, but that just isn’t as fun.

What triggered it this time?

Certain memories have re-entered into the front of my mind. It’s pretty intriguing to see how they ended up there. Going into how they ended up there would reveal too much of whatever I’m talking about. (And to the tell you the truth, it’s just a lot of little things. Nothing like me running over someone with my car or anything.)

At this point, I’m wondering how much I can wonder. I’m questioning just how much more I can question. Won’t I ever get tired of this? The thing is, though, that questions borne new questions. But even more meta than that is the amazement at the number of CPU cycles I’m squandering at this ridiculous past.

But I must retain, at the same time, what needs to be retained while forgetting

I’m not learning to forgive: I’m just forgetting to remember. I’m losing this skill that I thought to be a gift.

Sidenote: I’m realizing that I no longer writing in questions. I’m writing in sentences, often starting with “I’m”. Hmm.

Pain was dealt to me. Pain was dealt to others. Unfairly or not, the pain exist. The fact is that there was and (if I can help it… or not… do I want closure?) will not be closure. I’m still not sure if it’s the lack of closure that’s bothering more or the fact that things didn’t end up anywhere close how I envisioned them to end up being.

Sidenote: At one point in my life, people mattered. They mattered so much that a lot of things were thrown out the window: Then reality set in. I became even more bitter than I was before.

Brought to you partially by: John Reuben’s “Time to Leave”

Be alert, pay attention

(One day) Even your friends will become the competition

Trust no one but do remember this, never burn any potential bridges

Know who’s who, and what they can do for you

And don’t feel bad cause’ in the end they’re gonna do it to you too

Remember life’s not fair

In order to maintain, your gonna have to let you sensitivity be trained

A machine more than a human being

What you say doesn’t always have to be what you mean

Tell them what they want to hear if it’s to your benefit

And words beyond closed doors are insignificant

Push yourself, never be satisfied

Even if you don’t get it, at least you died knowing you tried

Born, live, strive, succeed

Gain it all, bye, now it’s time to leave…

Now, all we see is now.

So lessons? Takeaways?

I’m still learning from it all. I’m learning that I have to start from square one, yet again, with people. I have to give it another chance. And I have a feeling I’m going to have to give them another chance again later down the line.

For some reason, my closest friends I do not regard as people. This statement was why I got into trouble in the first place. Being able to figure out who your friends are is an amazingly important trait that I thought I had. Too bad I had to learn it in such a harsh way.

To give without the thought of taking, and knowing full well that they will do the same. It’s amazing when two or more people meet with that in mind.

You’re yammering away. Back to the point.

Right. Point.

As I continue with HanMeta, a company that will have to deal with users of its products, I’ll try to look back to this said event with a very sober eye. It’s really hard, though, because people will be (hopefully) using the products. People.

If only my view on humanity didn’t die with my friendship with these people, things might be a little different.

This post has no structure, Josh Kim.

Yeah, I know. And I’m pretty sure I’m not even going to fix any grammatical or structural errors. I just had to write it down somewhere.

Is my hope that someone reads this and figures it out? Eh. I think the side of me that wants closure does. But the side that wants to go kill a whole bunch of people doesn’t. Heh. Fuel. I love it.

I need to find a purveyor of caffeine, so I can get cracking on this GadgetGet business. Or write a post. Or something.

Legend… wait for it… “air”-y.

It has happened. It took me quite a long while to do this, but, I pulled the trigger. Now to spend the rest of the night configuring the darn thing so I can actually start doing some work.

Sidenote: I love Time Machine. It’s just the restoring part that’s a little painful and untrustworthy. Time to do what I do best: Go and bring a machine back to its awesome state after a reformat (in this case, a new purchase).

Another Sidenote: I haven’t posted on the blog using the actual Wordpress interface for a while. Doesn’t seem to shabby, but I still prefer the TextMate bundle.

A Third Sidenote:  Wordpress on Safari doesn’t like to retain html tags in the visual edit mode. That’s why the post before without paragraph tags. What’s the deal…