I had a heck of a day! I spent the day working out of [Carrboro Creative Coworking](http://www.carrborocoworking.com/), which I recommend. I ran into friends there, and knocked out a prototype of an app I've wanted to build for a while. The cool part is that I used a bunch of technologies I don't normally use. I'm using [Haml and Sass](http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/), [Compass](http://compass-style.org/), and [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Home) with [MongoMapper](http://github.com/jnunemaker/mongomapper/tree/master). I've had a hate-on for Haml for a while, but I wanted to try Compass, and since I was using that, I thought I might as well try Haml, which is required by Compass. So far, I have lost my hate for it. I'm not up to even strong-like yet, but there's definitely weak-like. I even [made a patch for MongoMapper](http://github.com/crnixon/mongomapper/commit/7b4bd7f1be50361422aefdf3c2955a6602698faf) and sent a pull request. Any day I contribute back to open source is a good day.