Well since I’ve been unemployed I’ve been working pretty feverishly on the events site and have a deadline for go live now – August 31. This is pretty exciting because its the first time I’ve actually gotten past all the boilerplate and into the actual coding of a rails site, even though I’m still more or less Googling on how to do a lot of it. So far I think the partnership is going to be amazing, the other guy is really determined on the marketing front and will probably end up being a big part of the site’s success. I’ll post a link here when there is something to show.
Programming
Yesterday I found a site, Sphere Online Judge, that has a ton of programming exercises on it that I’m going to try my hand at solving. While going to the meetups is a good thing, it isn’t actually making me the better programmer that I thought it would. Actually going through and solving programming exercises in some language (Ruby of course) should make me a much better programmer all around, no matter what language I get a job using. Maybe even get me some nice code samples to send out.
Body Fat Percentage?
I downloaded a heart rate monitor app on my iPhone just to try to get a picture of what my heart rate gets to and a rough estimate of how many calories I’m burning when I work out, and I found something interesting out. The method it uses to determine body fat percentage is “the navy method” which I guess does some calculation based on your neck measurement and waist measurement. Using those two measurements (17.5/34 respectively) it says I have a body fat % of 9.6 which is a lot less than the ~22% that the scale upstairs is giving me. From now on, on Mondays I’m going to give both figures and see how they trend. I know they’re both not completely accurate, and having over a 10% difference is ridiculous, but if they’re trending down they’re trending down and either one could be a nice indicator of progress.