Moving to Louisville
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Update: Scratch that, I'm staying in Oklahoma City
Now that I don't have a "job" I have freedom to live where ever I want, which is awesome. I will really miss all of my Oklahoma friends, my house, and the band I play in.
I am looking forward to a lot of old friends in Louisville. I love it here.
I Don't Have A Boss Anymore
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As of May 8th, I will no longer work for LifeChurch.tv. I am leaving (on good terms) to get out there and do my own thing. Everyone there has been very supportive of this decision.
This is a scary and exciting time for me. In the short term, I'll be doing freelance work full time. I already have about 3 months of work booked. It was awesome get that much work lined up just days after I officially resigned at LifeChurch.tv.
Most of the stuff I'll be doing is iPhone and web apps. The end goal will be doing Trimonix (my company) full time. I absolutely love creating my own software. Freelance pays the bills and is fun because you get to work with lots of different people and learn new things, but I'd rather make my own stuff.
My Take on using Ruby on Rails
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So I recently decided to give Ruby on Rails another chance. For many of the same reasons I gave jQuery a chance. I'll use this decision as an example, so bear with me for a second.
I was a huge fan of MooTools (and still am), but I decided to give jQuery a chance. I liked MooTools better. I thought it was superior to jQuery in its organization and many other things. You have to admit that MooTools's animations look way better.
All of that said, two things made me switch: the amount of code I didn't have to write and the huge community around it.
OpenBeta and OKCCoCo
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Tonight I went to OpenBeta with some friends from work. I met a lot of super cool people too. It's always cool to connect with people in person that you have only met via Twitter.
OpenBeta is an unconference focused on web development, software development, and design. There were over 200 people there. It's awesome to have such a community here in Oklahoma City. I always love meeting other iPhone developers in person. So far, I've only met two.
Another really cool thing happening here in Oklahoma City is OKCCoco. OKCCoCo is the Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative:
Linus Torvalds on git
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Just watched this video on YouTube. I thought it was really interesting. I've never heard Torvalds speak before. He's a funny guy. I liked how he told people to google how to use git if they didn't know. Good stuff.
If you're not already using git for source control management (or not using source control management at all, which you should be doing anyway) you should check out git. There are tons of great resources for getting started on git's website and in GitHub's guides.