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25apr2006

Zog, The Devil and Me, “Zog decided to attend some adult education classes at the local university and learnt about the concept of falsifiable propositions.”

New from MAKE: CRAFT, from the creators of MAKE Magazine, a new magazine devoted to crafts! Highly creative naming, why not call it MAGAZINE?

The Future of Programming: An Interview with Paul Graham at ACM Crossroads.

What’s your dream job? and what to answer to job questions, by Phil Tomson.

Long way to Home
Long way to Home by lenny_farmer

And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
— Pearl Jam, Parachutes

Z, a ruined city lost to the jungles of time.

#rspec
18:50 <srbaker> there are no parallels between this and what the UML guys push
18:50 <srbaker> it's a different flavour of kool aid entirely
18:50 <srbaker> the UML guys are idiots.

Speeding Up Net::HTTP, OpenURI or Any Other TCPSocket Offspring, or just use plain IPs.

The Super Fat Client: I like it!, by Rick Jelliffe. Virtualization is the new hot thing, it seems.

Someone Like Me, by SocratesGhost. “I don’t want to be like that guy in the movie who talks to a volleyball.” A story I like.

#ruby-lang
18:23 <srbaker> there's an #rspec chan now for anyone that cares

Ruby Hacking Nights, pat eyler explains: “The general idea is that if you hold your meetings on a regular night, then interested Rubyists could gather on the same weeknight during the non-meeting weeks to hack on Ruby projects.”

Refactoring Everything, Day 10, by chromatic. “Today’s task is finishing the port of the parent node to Test::Class. Hooray!”

Life comes from within your heart and desire
Life comes from within my heart and desire
Life comes from within your heart and desire
— Pearl Jam, Inside Job

Debugging 101 at Hacknot. Lession: Avoid Debuggers.

Briquolo is a breakout with 3D representation based on OpenGL. Neat.

Fun with Ruby’s standard library, by Gregory Brown. Nifty.

CIMG0973
CIMG0973 by danlaz

People of Perl: Guillaume Cottenceau, interview by Bit-Man. Guillaume wrote Frozen Bubble.

rdup is a utility inspired by rsync and the plan9 way of doing backups. rdup itself does not backup anything. It only prints a list of files that are changed, or all files in case of a null dump, to standard output.

#ruby-lang
22:53 <nerochiaro> chris2: while at it, would it be possible to alter respond_to? so that it does similar thinking to method_missing and fake that knowledge ?
22:53 <chris2> yes
22:53 <chris2> and some classes do it
22:53 <chris2> most dont
22:55 <chris2> often you forget about it :P
22:55 <nerochiaro> chris2: if by "forgot" you mean "can't be arsed to implement it", then i agree ;)

Internationaler Bob Dylan-Kongress Frankfurt, gah, ich will da hin! ;-)

On Pokemonetisation…, a cool word minted by Simon Willison.

How to stop procrastinating, great hint by Dan Schmidt.