Survived Day 1 of Daddy Daycare

I'm at home this week with the two-and-a-half kids (Kobe the dog counts as half a kid) while Carolyn takes a much-deserved vacation at home in Toronto. I've survived day one - five to go!

I saw that Nikon has released the full-frame D3 SLR - the one with the insane ISO 256,000 setting. It's a good thing that I don't own any DX lenses :)

As I approach my 40th birthday, I've started riding again. I spent a lot of time riding as a kid and got pretty good at it. About 8 years ago, I bought a bike that I would have killed for when I was serious about riding, and rode it maybe a dozen times. Now that I live in a bike-friendly town and within easy commute distance (6 miles each way) I've started riding it again. There's no shortage of hills around here, which makes that 6 miles, um, a bit more challenging than 6 miles in Toronto (had to swap out the 12-23 for a 12-27). I figure that I should drop about 25 pounds or so to get into a good power/weight ratio for riding the hills around here - plenty of time to make that happen.

Don't worry, IronRuby is in good hands with our devs. The Rubyforge sync script is done, and we're finishing off a few more foundational features before we go live at the end of August.

Comments

[joshdavey]

It seems that everyone who moves out west starts riding their bike in to work.

My dad as well started biking in to work every day. We live in North Vancouver and he bikes all the way to downtown Vancouver. I don't know how he does it.

[Nair]

I wish I could do more biking like you do. Here the drivers are not that friendly.
Also I am so relived to learn Ironruby development is going on.. :)

[Fredrik]

Hi John,

Wishing you a relaxing vacation at home.

How about blogging a little on currently available good IDE's ( Text Editors)for Iron Ruby to start with.

You must be having few good IDE's that can work smoothly on DLR.

This blog will really help us.

Thanks

[John Lam]

@Josh: There's a ton of bike lanes around here, and lots of ways of routing around busy traffic. It takes longer to get to work, but being able to get a workout in both directions is well worth the extra time.

@Fredrik: We don't have any IDE support for IronRuby today. There is a language service available for IronPython in VS 2005. We'll investigate writing a language service either as something we do or something that we help someone in the community to do. Lets revisit this topic once we ship the source on Rubyforge at the end of the month.