- Smoothies w/ Bernie: Bernie’s blog, Nalo Hopkinson tells it like it is about survival and creating, Oops! Also add one cup of frozen (or fresh) pineapple chunks!
- Music Stuff: Billie Ray Martin launches Komputerliebe, Ledisi’s message board, Raul Midón debuts at The Kennedy Center, Patti LaBelle and Chaka Khan (featuring the fabulous Karen Bernod!) bring the Brooklyn Summer Concert Series to a close, Soul Summit Music Festival
- Kenyon on Kanye: my exclusive interview with Kenyon Farrow about that Kanye West interview (also check out his article for the Black AIDS Institute), Lloyd Boston’s Men Of Color (and we forgive the obvious oversight of excluding designer Ozwald Boateng)
- Coming Soon: Please attend the official launch party for the Rashawn Brazell Memorial Scholarship Fund. See you there and at In the Life Atlanta for Labor Day!
- Featured Music: Sarah Vaughan’s Bridges, Kraftwerk’s Computer Love, Common’s Electric Wire Hustler Flower, Stephanie Mills’ Put Your Body In It (12” version)
August 2005 Archives
Last night/This morning I made the push: I upgraded my blog to Movable Type 3.2 and moved it to a new subdomain. For the most part, it’s been great (especially that 10 second upgrade process!) but there’s still a lot of customization to be done. You may notice broken links and/or images scattered about; I’ll get to them as soon as time permits.
So, yes, we were talking about moving. Well, last week while looking through job announcements, I gave some serious thought to leaving New York City. Bernie’s post on “aging out” really struck a nerve; I kept asking myself “Honey, are you getting what you need out of this experience?” I’m struggling - and I’ve been struggling most of my adult life. And I know I shouldn’t have to be struggling like this.
Continue reading Moving On Again.
Just imagine creating an entire blog engine from scratch in less than 15 minutes. You can do it with Ruby on Rails. (And if you use Dreamhost, most of the work is already done for you!) With its immense ease of use, Ruby on Rails is poised to change the landscape of the Internet by allowing users to create dynamic, database-driven applications much more quickly than was ever possible before.
Ruby is not your garden variety object-oriented programming language; its creator, Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto, created it about 12 years ago to "maximize the joy of programming." (Did I mention that Ruby is free?) And now we have it on Rails, the open-source (read: free!) web framework brought to us by hacker extraordinaire David Heinemeier Hansson that uses Ruby to make it really easy - even joyful! - to create entire web applications. On the fly - with a gigantic emphasis on the reuse of code so that you Don't Repeat Yourself. I am so in love!
Okay, so maybe that was a lot of TechTalk™: here's an easy-to-read introduction complete with cartoon foxes!
I know it's been overused, but Whoa ...
- How To Podcast: Plantronics DSP-400 headset, Audacity, Griffin’s iTalk, Apple’s podcasting guide, RSS Validator
- The Tea: Donnie cut from Motown/Universal while we wait for Maxwell’s “Black Summers’ Night”
- Photography: hrlm: pictures, Choose Your Great Day In Art In Harlem
- Featured Music: Sarah Vaughan’s If You Could See Me Now, Donnie’s The Colored Section, Sylvester’s I Need You, Amel Larrieux’ Infinite Possibilities
