Nathan Herald

Notes from my upgrade to the DataMapper next branch (as of today)

• Assiciation class names are now specified as :model => "User"

    belongs_to :owner, :class_name => "User", :child_key => [:owner_id]
  

• Belongs to associations have a :nullable => false by default, so you gotta do :nullable => true if you want that sort of thing

• #relationships on a Resource instance is now private, so you gotta do instance.model.relationships
• Do author.books.new instead of author.books.build (which makes more sense anyway)

• Has many through has changed and is better explained by example:

    has n, :subscribers, :through => :subscriptions, :model => 'User', :via => :user
    # :via => :user tells it to use the association named user
  

• new? and not new_record?

• original_attributes and not original_values

• database.yml has changed a bit:

    adapter: mysql
    path: db_name
    host: localhost
    user: root
  

Want: Graphic Design, Referenced

Happy birthday Jenny.

I need to be more effective with the tools that I use. Very rarely do I use my available toolset to it's fullest. Anyone got any tips? Here is a list of a few things I use all the time:

• MacBook Pro
• iPhone
• Basecamp
• Textmate
• Dot Grid Notebook
• Backpack
• Highrise
• Transmit
• Twitter

All of these things I love to use, but I feel that I use them at a fraction of their potential. I forget about todo's in highrise, I leave backpack pages out of date, I forget to twitter, I leave notes on my phone for months, and I really don't think I could ever use my macbook pro to it's fullest.

I mean it's great to have all this creative potential around me. Just need to make better use of everything.