Laurence A. Lee's Page

Despite the fact that Ruby on Rails has been around since 2004, I'm still surprised and dismayed at how many "Amateurs" (or non-Passionate Coders as Stephen McMahon recently blogged about) are trying to get into Ruby on Rails. Much like what Stephen encountered, I seem to be rescuing a lot of Rails Projects recently, with Ruby code made to "look like" an older, more established language. One recent code snippet I came acros… Continue

In case you missed it.. http://starbulletin.com/2008/09/21/business/engle.html. Congrats, Kari and Eric. I hope your success story inspires others to make their own success stories, doing something they truly enjoy. Sadly, though, my cat won't eat cheeseburgers... but she LOOOOVES her kakimochi. In fact, she won't leave me alone when I break open a bag.. see? ;-)… Continue

Sorry, but I had to get this off my chest. All these last-minute bullets are flying around in the Mayor's Race, with respect to Panos Prevedouros and the StopRailNow effort. At the heart of the issue is a controversial website, FirePanos, which smears Panos and the SRN Campaign with poorly Photoshopped images, and inciteful language that's not worth repeating. Suffice it to say, it's another ASS (Anonymous Smear Site) hiding behind the First Amendment. Of particular interest is the speculation… Continue

First, let me say that I'm not trying to short-sell Tech Businesses in Hawaii. On the surface, it just seems to me that Hawaii is not the ideal place to incorporate in order to operate a SAAS (Software as a Service) Business. This glaring fact echoes in my mind louder and louder, as I'm approaching Critical Mass on "Project TokiDoki". 'Doki is one of my self-funded software projects that I've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into. OK, maybe not blood and sweat.. but it sure was a hell of a… Continue

I found this little blip in my Google Reader this afternoon. Apparently, Longs Drugs is being bought out by a much larger Pharmacy Chain, CVS. Back when I was living in Las Vegas, I was a lot more involved in the "Hardware Hacking" scene, and got hooked on the Camera Hacking scene. Fortu… Continue