CodeWarrior's Cruft

So I was watching Lost (720p) yesterday on my PC, and that thing would drop frames like there's no tomorrow. I started off trying it with Totem, then VLC, and then I got so upset with the quality of the playback, I installed and tried Mplayer. Wow... just wow... I used to use Mplayer on my laptop a year ago (on the FreeBSD install) but I haven't tried it out since. Its amazing how well the playback quality was with almost no dropped frames at all. Tells you a thing or two about how different well written software is.

So I really needed to get a todo list up and running VERY quickly with minimal hassle. Rails to the rescue! With 2.0.1, you can do the following:

rails todos
cd todo
rake db:create:all
script/generate scaffold Todo title:string body:text done:boolean due:datetime percentage:integer 
rake db:migrate

And then, if you want, add a bit of CSS like I did (screenshot!) to create that progress bar, and voila! Insta-TODO. I plan to make the CSS and any other modifications I add to this little Rails-one-liner public very soon (as an update to this post).

So I did some code and cosmetic upgrades on this blog. Testing it out for a while now before I roll it out completely. I've been doing some work on RFC 2812 in my spare time - the results should be public soon. In other news, more work, more gym, and just more life really. In terms of music, I've been enjoying some of DJ Code's music - its quite good.