Entries with tag "development"

In an age of technological progress, I take two steps back

Posted on January 2, 2006 at 12:10 AM in 'Dear Diary' with tags 'photography, development, darkroom, jessie, kevin, camry, charleston'

Ever since high school I've always wanted to learn to develop my own film, but the interest was always relegated to the back of my consciousness. But a few months ago, on a trip to Charleston to visit Jessie, I spent some time talking with her friend Kevin who's got a darkroom in his house, and he really revived my enthusiasm about processing my own film. Now that the construction at home is nearing the end, and the use of my bedroom (and, more importantly, bathroom) are restored to me, I'm revisiting the idea.

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Changes roll along the horizon

Posted on August 11, 2005 at 5:46 AM in 'Miscellaneous' with tags 'binrock, ruby, rails, development, programming, blog, photo_gallery'

For the last month or two I've been toying with Ruby On Rails, a web application framework based on the Ruby programming language. It seems like a very cool way to build web applications; coding is much easier and actually fun, and maintenance should be simpler. It's cool enough that I'm actually considering rewriting the blog and photo gallery in Rails.

Originally I figured I'd just reimplement the existing setup so that, aside from some possible URL changes, most visitors wouldn't even notice the difference. But as long as I'm rewriting things from scratch, I'm considering rethinking the photo gallery's layout.

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