CodeSmack: Announcing T-Shirt Tuesdays
1. We will design new shirts and release them on Tuesdays
2. We will sometimes feature existing t-shirt designs
3. We will discount the t-shirts featured on Tuesday until the next Tuesday
Head on over and see this week’s newest designs and featured shirts, including one of my new favorite designs: Ready. Fire. Aim. (Hint: listen to its inspiration from RailsConf 2006) Buy ‘em this week and you’ll get a $2.00 discount over normal prices. Enjoy!
We are pleased to unveil to you, codesmack.com, home of the funniest programmer t-shirts. We have over 15 different designs that can be paired with different shirt/color combinations to dress you out in style. Our designs try to bring humor to the IT world, promote good programing practices and add a little good natured smack talk to your wardrobe.
We welcome any feedback you have regarding the site design (treat it gently; it’s brand new), t-shirt ideas, or any other comments you would like to make. If you like a shirt, we won’t even complain if you buy one (or more).
Hope to see you in a CodeSmack t-shirt!
–Tim and Aaron
http://codesmack.com
With this little announcement we let our family, friends, coworkers, and open source associates know what we’ve been up to for the month or so. We’ve got a great selection of designs started, with plenty more to come in time. Digg your favorites soon and you just might get a chance to pick one up at RailsConf.
I’ve been silent again. I know, it’s not what I intended at the beginning of the year. It’s just that it’s so much fun to go off and build stuff. I get sucked into all sorts of side projects outside work that are interesting and time consuming (not to mention time spent with the fam — two under the age of 2 is both a joy and a handful!).
So here’s one glimpse into my recent projects. I’ve been hacking away at another WordPress site. It’s a volunteer project I do mainly on the weekends. It’s been interesting to fiddle with PHP more in depth while still doing heavy Rails stuff in the evenings. I forget how functional style programming tends to work. Shared variables abound, and one file melds into another. PHP seems really good about working with files, though. It’s really amazing how easy it is to say, “now go use that file”. I’ve done stuff like that in JSP and other languages, but it’s pretty darn simple in PHP. The mental concepts of assembling a web page seem to be all about choosing the file that renders a certain part of the page. That’s different from JSF where you think mainly about assembling components, and different from Struts where you often think of Actions or logical forwards, and different from Rails where you think of the method in your Action and the responds_to block.
So it’s not likely that I’ll hang out in PHP land for long. Nor is there any danger of me evangelizing it, but I look at this as simply one of many recent experiences I’ve had while building something that confirms another of the Pragmatic Programmer’s axioms: learn a new language every year. I’d add, Do it while hacking something together.
