Author: sroot

  • EuroCon I'm going I'm going!

    This is not something I expected to be writing last week. It’s not even something I expected to write two days ago but life moves in mysterious ways, so here I am, Laptop, Book, Coffee, sitting on the SeaFrance Rodin Dover Calais Ferry, writing for my blog offline because I don’t have internet access. Well,…

  • Hero lost, hero found

    One of my childhood heroes died last week. I’ll always remember how he taught me to ski, lessons so memorable I remember them over 20 years later. I’ll always remember how he was the one who picked me up and carried me over 100m down the ski slope when I fell and broke my wrist…

  • Ruby woes: NameError and uninitialized constant

    The thing I hate most about learning a new programming language is the time it takes to do the simplest things… something goes wrong and it takes hours to figure it. Sure, it’s worth it once you know but boy do I hate that time consuming learning process. Meet today’s problem. NameError in StoryController#index uninitialized…