Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07sep2006
Rush to Rails 1.2 Adds Tons of New Features, Bob Silva made a list.
JRuby Steps Into the Sun, “The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month. Our charge? You guessed it…we’re being hired to work on JRuby full-time.”
Dirk, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. “Dirk currently knows of 1883 things with 3109 connections.”
call_stack 0.1.0, making ruby-breakpoint/Rails’ breakpointer work with Ruby 1.8.5. Mauricio rescues the breakpoint-using world.
All I did was have a bit too much to drink
And I picked the wrong precinct
Got picked up by the law
And now I ain’t got time to think
— The Who, My Wife
Sigh, so right, Patrick.
Magic is a simple web application framework inspired by web.py, Ruby on Rails, Emacs, and Apache. Magic is written in Scheme, a Lisp dialect, and serves pages through any web server that supports SCGI, such as Apache or lighttpd.
Powerpoint bullet numbering trivia, who’d have thought that.
Things I’ve learned in law school, part 1 of… well, a lot, “Fear is a wonderful motivator.”
Why do we keep on using C++?, true honesty: “I keep on using C++ because Amarok is written in it, which can’t be changed easily. And that’s about the only reason.”
I’m just a dreamer, I dream my life away, today
I’m just a dreamer, who dreams of better days, OK
I’m just a dreamer, who’s searching for the way, today
I’m just a dreamer, dreaming my life away
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
— Ozzy Osbourne, Dreamer
My Most Important C++ Aha! Moments… Ever, chosen by Scott Meyers. My favourite: “Understanding what problem Visitor addresses”.
Massiver Serverausfall beim CCC, RAID ist halt auch kein Panazee.
CouchDb: document oriented persistence, by Harry Fuecks. Good review.
Cistern, “McMillan Reservoir, in Washington D.C., is one of the largest undeveloped tracts in a capital invaded by convoys of construction cranes.”
Kidnapper’s retro computer offers scant clues, terrorists, use a C64 too!