Mission… accomplished?!?!

Time is actually running out between my fingers quite too quickly lately… we’re approaching the end of January in just a bunch of hours. Unbelievable! I don’t know if you’ve realized of this triviality or not, but I assure you that every time I notice it I literally go over the edge due to all the things I’ve promised myself to do during the current year and which are still on my to-do list. Anyway, today’s topic is not about ranting on how quickly the time passes away and how unproductively I leave my time escape away from me but, still, I will definitely use this weird and improvised opportunity to leave you take a short break with this song. I suggest you to stop watching your screen for a couple of minutes, just sit back in the most conformable couch you’ve at your place and enjoy the melody…

Well… a couple of interesting events took place during the last couple of days all around the globe. I think the most important one, from my particular point of view, is the departure of this extremely peculiar character that was haunting that huge White House down there in Washington DC, USA. Yes, I really like the guy who took over last week but I’ve to admit that some part of me is already missing that kind of “special” charm and silliness the previous guy had. I’m referring to that kind of weird personality that make us hit our faces against the wall with his completely out-of-this-world quotes during his speeches or amaze us with his Spiderman-like reflexes when the flying shoes were going his way no matter where in the world he was standing. He was such a great yet undercover stand-up cowboy comedian looking for the respect and appreciation of his peers -imagine how tough can be an audience conformed of minority-complexed presidents, ever-loving prime ministers, petty dictators and egomaniac journalists from all over the world no less!!!-.  Yet, he survived against all odds just to make us laugh until we drop and, yes, his most important achievement is, undoubtedly, the great legacy he left behind: Lil’ Bush, Resident of the United States of America. This animated TV series summarize the last 8 years of adventures starring the most wacko president the world have ever seen. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the countless hours and hours of joyful entertainment Dony, Condy, Dicky and specially you have provided to us all. Mission accomplished!

The legend himself!

One high priority matter for those films and video games lovers who are currently living in Amsterdam or nearby areas (let’s face it… every part of The Netherlands is nearby this city so everybody should get the first train to it at the station near your place tomorrow afternoon!). Tomorrow, January 29, one of the biggest personalities of the seven art will be signing films, DVDs, VHSs, posters, photos and some other crap you would like him to sign at the Fame Music Store next to the Dam. Now you’re wondering who’s the person I’m talking about, right? Well… I’m talking about the magnanimous, brilliant, talented yet misundertood German-born director… Uwe Boll! For those of you who are not familiar with his art and work, here I leave you a short list of his best must-see movies, inspired by renowned video games franchises such as Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Postal and House of the Dead. Say no more! Tomorrow afternoon I will be there and I want my photo with the legend himself! In the case you’re not living nearby (I mean, you’re living in another country…) or you’ve urgent matters to attend, please I recommend you to read a couple of articles dedicated to one of the greatest director in the history of films (this one and this another one), enjoy one of his best interviews (done while having dinner), go to the Mr. Boll organization website and don’t forget to help him get the attention, status and respect he truly deserves.

Now, talking about myself for a little bit -very egocentric, you could say…-, the last couple of days I’ve been playing with a small yet powerful web framework known as Sinatra. It is developed with Ruby and it is not based on MVC philosophies. It aims to simplify the creation of both small/medium sized web applications and services as much as possible by defining a DSL that interact directly to the Rack instance installed on your web server.The argument I use to defend the use of this framework instead of other popular web frameworks such as Rails or Merb in this particular case is the lack of complexity defined in the design of my website as well as avoiding the overhead implicitedly added by such frameworks. What I really would like to know is how can Sinatra would react in cases of extreme complexity in a web application or service, but I expect to answer myself this questions in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I’m developing my personal website from scratch (including graphic design content creation with Illustrator and Photoshop… it’s being a long time since the last time I’ve played with this babies!) but I would integrate a couple of RESTful services that I’m requiring to it shorty. Of couse, I will keep you informed of any update I would be finding along the way during this development.

As well, I’ve finished most of the existing translations for the Merb Open Source Book project, which you can check and consult in my fork of this project on Github if you are one of those few people who are able and willing to help me a little bit on that. Even tough there were some content update lately, it is scary to see how the amount of activity fell considerably after the Rails-Merb merge announcement of last December. Particularly speaking, I still don’t see how the current content is going to be properly transformed in order to use it in Rails3 but these point is something that I would be asking to the project leader this week. For the moment, I will not discuss this matter any further in this current post.

Anyway, I think I’ve written too much again… and my question is: did I have accomplished something with it today? Only Time (not the magazine, of course) will tell…

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