January 2010
69 posts
“The best we can do is be kindly and helpful to our friends and fellow passengers...”
– Clarence Darrow
Exploring Dynamism →
In this presentation from the JVM Language Summit 2009, Allison Randal discusses what it means for a language to be dynamic, the spectrum between static and dynamic languages, dynamic typing, dynamic…
Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a... →
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2009, Billy Newport discusses the ways that developers interact with key/value (KV) stores such as memcached and WebSphere eXtreme Scale, entity vs…
RESTful API Authentication Schemes →
âEveryone feels the need to write a custom authentication protocolâ says George Reese, which he claims is one of the things he learnt working on a programming API for cloud providers and Saas…
Ruby VM Roundup: 1.9.2 Gets DTrace Support,... →
Rubinius 1.0 RC2 is available at the Rubinius website and now comes with binary installers, which make it easier for new users to give Rubinius a try. One reason to consider Rubinius are the results…
Ruby Creator "Matz" about Ruby, Functional... →
Yukihiro Matsumoto talks about programming languages design and decisions he had to take while designing Ruby. He also discusses other programming languages including Haskell, Scala, Python and…
“Let’s just be blunt: if you aren’t encrypting your API calls, you...”
– George Reese, on RESTful Authentication Schemes
“Word used by people who aspire to be hackers, but are too stupid to ever become...”
– hax0r -or- h4x0r (noun)
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On Ferris wheels / we shrink and tumble into / pink cotton candy. #haikuaday #haiku #oops
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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien
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Delivery man / flies by on a bicycle: / someone’s food is cold. #haikuaday #haiku
Using the New Gem Bundler Today →
As you might have heard, Carl and I released a new project that allows you to bundle your gems (both pure-ruby and native) with your application. Before I get into the process for using the bundler…
Ruby en Rails Conference 2009 on Vimeo →
All videos from the Ruby en Rails 2009 conference in Amsterdam. Checkout the full schedule at 2009.rubyenrails.nl.
Get Naked--It's Good for Your Brain →
Going shoeless is now recognized as an anti-Alzheimerâs, brain-boosting activity because the sole sensation entices your brain into growing extra, efficient neuron connections.
You're An Idiot For Not Using Heroku →
It is true. You are. Go try it now. That is an order. I can wait for you to come back and finish reading this post. I could end the post now, but I suppose Iâll go on and tell you a bit about my…
I Have No Talent →
It is true. I have no talent. What I do have is a lot of practice. And I am not talking about occasionally dabbling in Ruby on the weekends. I am talking about the kind of practice where I beat code…
mynyml's nanotest at master - GitHub →
“It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer.” —William of Ockham
How Pair Programming Really Works →
Pair programming has generated considerable controversy: some developers are enthusiastic about it, almost evangelical; others are dubious, even hostile.
“It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer.” —William of Ockham http://icio.us/dfdz1e
RT @ScienceChannel: Get Naked. No really, it’s good for your brain… http://ow.ly/ZlO0
How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page »... →
Beyond simple HTML you can also enter very simple FBML tags to simplify some of the process. FBML stands for âFacebook Markup Languageâ, and is meant to be a shortcut for use in Facebook…
Cars sighing, moaning / neon tails flowing—speed / crying, dying with the night. #haikuaday #haiku
Apple Tablet to Ship in March for Around $1000... →
Another potential reason for the price point: The tablet could include a nationwide Wi-Fi subscription service. If thatâs the case, the tablet becomes a lot more useful. Weâll have to wait until…
5 Industries an Apple Tablet Could Revolutionize →
The finance industry is a giant behemoth with many arms â trading, banking, personal finance, and investment banking, just to name a few. The tablet could have a dramatic impact on all of these…
Wired Is Getting Ready for Apple Tablet →
Snapping back to the real world, itâs quite obvious that Condé Nast, New York Times and others have been talking to Apple and yes, the tablet is coming. Its look and hardware-related details now…
Amazon to Launch App Store for Kindle →
All eyes are on Apple as the company prepares to unveil its Tablet device next week. But the dominant force in the e-reader market â Amazon â is about to shake things up in a major way by…
LackRack - an odyssee →
…the LackRack can be purchased easily. The whole procedure (including walking) only took about 20 minutes.
This provides you with almost 9U of rack space (per LackRack), and, as you can see, I’ve…
macfuse - Project Hosting on Google Code →
MacFUSE allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities via 3rd-party file systems. It is used as a software building block by dozens of products.
Dylan wailing on / scratchy vinyl recording / beer flowing on tap. #haikuaday #haiku
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“It may have been a fine cookie. But, since no single person played a central...”
– Malcolm Gladwell: The Bakeoff
For years now, whenever the subject of open source product design has come up in conversation, I’ve mentioned this 2005 Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker piece about Steve Gundrum, a tech-minded Silicon Valley baker who decided to pit three software development methodologies...
#haikuaday #haiku: outside smoking, cold / breath makes ice molecules / grey spectre smiling
Show all files in the Finder | Software | Mac OS X... →
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
13 Year Old Boy Has Time Machine Plan That Works |... →
If you had magnets in front of each other and had one beam of blue light that had been traveling for thousands of years and put that in the middle of these two magnets then turned on lasers on each…
Oops: Backscatter x-ray machines "tear apart DNA"... →
…researchers have found that terahertz radiation may interfere directly with DNA. Although the force generated is small, the waves have been found to “unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in…
Google Earth →
Browse around and zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae
#haikuaday: deafening crackle,
the wind soars, electric blue
arcs of sky fire
“On Rake” by John Barnette →
Iâve been reading a lot of Rakefiles lately, and itâs obvious that the folks writing them think of Rake as An Engine For Encapsulating Tasks. Thatâs fine, but itâs only part of what Rake can…
Irony mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The irony mark or irony point (Ø) (French: point dâironie; also called a snark or zing) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be…
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“Before the Internet, I made more trips to the library and more phone calls. I...”
– How has the Internet Changed the Way You Think? - O’Reilly Radar
How To Hack Google →
This tutorial shows you security issues with Google that can allow you to hack other people’s sites. The only intention of this video is to point out security flaws so that you can make sure your own…
Google: The Word of the Decade →
The American Dialect Society (ADS) has named google - the verb - as its Word of the Decade. According to the ADS, the verb google (meaning to “search the Internet”) won out over blog, which,…
kevinrutherford's reek at master - GitHub →
Code-smell detector for Ruby…
ScrumNinja™ - Agile Software Project Tracking for... →
Your lifeâs work is developing high-quality software. And doing it quickly, easily, and efficiently is paramount to your organizationâs success and competitive advantage. Enjoying how you do it…
Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street... →
The patent describes a two-step process for identifying potential advertising real estate in these images. Google’s software first identifies interest points in the image (e.g. the edges or corners…