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ChrisOei

  1. Reading _Eloquent Ruby_.
  2. Reading _The RSpec Book_.
  3. Reading _The Little Book on CoffeeScript_.
  4. Reading _Rails AntiPatterns_.
  5. Reading _The Well-Grounded Rubyist_ by David Black.
  6. Reading _Rails Recipes_ (Rails 3 edition) by Chad Fowler.
  7. Playing around with the RubyMine 4 beta release. So far, it looks so good I'm probably going to switch from TextMate.
  8. Reading _Programming Ruby 1.9_ by Dave Thomas (the pickaxe book).
  9. Reading _Metaprogramming Ruby_ by Paolo Perrotta.
  10. Reading CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Ed.
  11. Reading _The Rails 3 Way_.
  12. Playing around with machine learning and Twitter: blog.eluctari.com/2011/08/bayesi…
  13. Finished building my new computer and installing software on it. AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor, 8 GB RAM, 2 TB hard drive.
  14. Tweaking the Interactive Brokers' Java client API: github.com/chrisoei/Inter…
  15. I built a version of GLEW that works with Visual C++ 2010. The results are in github.com/chrisoei/glew. See the downloads section for the zip.
  16. Started learning a little OpenGL from openglbook.com/the-book/chapt….
  17. Trying out the TopCoder.com practice rooms. Seems like a great way to hone my programming skills.
  18. Reading _Just Spring_ by M. Konda.