Today I posted the first screencast in Engine Yard’s AppCloud Screencast series on how to Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic RPM on AppCloud.
It was a lot of fun putting this together as it brought together my skills in audio/video that I’ve not used in quite a while and I still enjoy. I’m quite proud of the result and thus I share it with you here on my site.
Ruby Heroes 2010 from Tyler Bird on Vimeo.
After Yehuda’s keynote Tuesday night at RailsConf the Ruby Hero awards were presented by Gregg Pollack and Nathaniel Bibler from Envy Labs.
The Ruby Hero awards was created in 2008 to highlight people in the Ruby community who have passionately helped make better the tools in Ruby we enjoy everyday.
This year’s winners were:
Gregg’s post with his video can be found on the Envy Labs Blog. He continues on with an important challenge that I didn’t include, which tied into Yehuda’s keynote about setting “impossible” goals for yourself. That what might seem “impossible” today, might be very possible tomorrow if you work hard and keep trying.
Also watch the end for more information about Rails 3.
So last year I thought that writing online, on a daily basis, would be a way to make this blog a better thing. But it’s just another way to fail. And fail publicly.
Well working with my therapist, I’ve learned to try and correct my valuation of outcome versus progress.
When you value outcome only, then you’re only able to evaluate things against the final outcome or results. For example, if you want to lose 100 pounds (not an easy task), and you start to gain weight instead of lose weight for two weeks in a row, you may suddenly give up because you decide that you’re no longer going toward your outcome.
But if your able to step back and look at progress and see that before those two weeks you lost weight, and know that you can lose weight again if you accept what has happened. Then you’re ready to begin living a progress mindset.
That’s the power of Quality over Quantity. And thus I’m retiring the “Daily” category here on the blog and will be planning more quality posts on the two subjects of this duality blog. Film and Programming.
This is my first blog post from my iPhone. Holy crap I love technology.
I’ve consistently been facinated with the content and quality of Geoffrey Grosenbach’s peepcode screencasts.
And now I’ve finished watching his screencast on how to make your own screencasts I’m still impressed. The difference is that now I want to make my own sceencasts.
So I’ll be working on this and some future posts will be in screencast format.
