Educate. Liberate.

DHH posted today about the recently released preview release for rails 2.0. One notable piece of the update is introduction to a rescue_from directive that provides an easier interface to handling errors than rescue_action_in_public. If any of you have used Exceptional, you know this is very similar to what exceptional provides. Not surprisingly, both the core team and me drew our inspiration from John Wilger who as far as I can see came up with the original idea.

It’s cool to see that the core team made similar improvements to the idea that I did. That tells me that at least I wasn’t clueless in my designs for the plugin.

I guess this means exceptional will fade off into the sunset. I know it has been good to me, and will live on in past projects. I imagine that we at Satisfaction will replace it with the core code when we upgrade to 2.0.

Obviously I haven’t been posting much on this blog. Looking at the time stamp of my last post it was just before one of my brothers flew into town to spend his summer training with me. I figured I wouldn’t get any posts done during, and I was right. No big deal, I’ll start up in August again after he takes of back to AK. It turns out I was a little too busy with things until now.

You see, I work at a pretty cool company that makes Satisfaction. We’re an application that helps bring people together with similar problems and help each other get customer support. ‘People-powered customer support’ is the Hollywood pitch. Well, we had this little launch that we were planning for September 15th and we still had a lot to do. We worked right up to the line, 9PM on Sep. 14, but we got it out. We even had this cool video of the very first page load of the home page on my Macbook pro. Too bad Thor wasn’t actually recording (I’ll be guilting you for years on that one).

Also, as you can see, I’m back to Wordpress. Mephisto was nice and did what it needed to do, but unfortunately it’s not worth $40 a month for my hosting plan just to run a blog. I’m switching back to dreamhost.