@dhh offered a patch to rubygems to adjust the default behavior to not generate local ri and rdoc. The main motivation in my opinion is that it's horribly slow and almost always unnecessary.

I think it's required to explore various programming languages from time to time. After dedicating myself to Ruby and loving it for the last couple of years, I've started to look at a few other languages that have been out for a while.

Ahh yes, writing blog entries...for whatever reason writing blog entries takes time I don't have. But here are a few things going through my mind right now.

2008 was a busy year. I haven't blogged in a while, but I thought I would share a few thoughts about what I'm looking forward to in 2009.

No, it's not the iPhone, but I still love it. In fact, we purchased our latest phones because we're waiting for the 3G iPhone rumored to be released in the June/July timeframe. They were supposed to be temporary "good enough" phones, but having used my phone for about a month, the next-gen iPhone is going to have to be pretty darn good to make me switch.

Nine Inch Nails releases Halo 27.

Despite widely regarded as obsolete and at best, inaccurate, the waterfall model of software engineering still persists. I believe this is true because the waterfall model is the best for management; the only problem is that it's probably the worst for building useful software.