February 2010
42 posts
“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said:...”
– The iPad Will Rule the World
Creation of new state of matter gets Nobel Physics... →
Mohonk Preserve (New York's largest non-profit... →
We safeguard and manage nearly 7,000 acres of mountain ridges, forests, fields, streams, ponds, and other unique and beautiful places. Education programs for children and adults promote understanding…
slipping through neon / casting electronic spells / twixt time and terra. #haikuaday #haiku
RT @N3W_Media: iPhone 4G in June WWDC announcements perhaps?
jquery rails demo app →
Snippets Tagged 'Rakefile' by noah →
Robby on Rails : git-svn is a gateway drug →
Valley Spawn: Social networks to make your baby an... →
What Really Motivates Workers? →
In a recent survey we invited more than 600 managers from dozens of companies to rank the impact on employee motivation and emotions of five workplace factors commonly considered significant:…
LiveMarks →
Choosing an Enterprise-Class Wireless Operating... →
This paper will explore some of the key criteria necessary in a mobile OS so that enterprise use of the device will not compromise the integrity of the company’s security and put it at risk for…
Reactor - Software Design Pattern →
The reactor design pattern is a concurrent programming pattern for handling service requests delivered concurrently to a service handler by one or more inputs. The service handler then demultiplexes…
Gem Weight →
gemweight.rb is a script to calculate the memory use and load time of a given gem. This is a pretty off-the-cuff measure - it doesnât consider dependencies loaded (or not loaded, if the gem loads…
mio →
a l’il tiny subset of Io all in Ruby for your own careful and private delectation w/ friends of the the family, if you want to.
Are You a Software Architect? →
The line between software development and software architecture is a tricky one. Some people will tell you that it doesn’t exist and that architecture is simply an extension of the design process…
EventMachine →
EventMachine is a library for Ruby, C++, and Java programs. It provides event-driven I/O using the Reactor pattern. EventMachine is designed to simultaneously meet two key needs: * Extremely high…
Wee and Continuations →
The last couple of days I spent refactoring my web application framework Wee, a Seaside-like framework for Ruby that I started back in 2004 with a lot of mental help from Avi Bryant (one of the main…
The iPhone App Developers' Blog: iPhone... →
Sweet.
Ruby Draft Specification - Issues - Ruby Draft... →
Comments on the Ruby Specification (Draft)
RT @ScienceChannel: New episode of #Lost on tonight. Check out @michiokaku take on the first ep of season 6. http://ow.ly/15ByI
Hammertime: Ruby Interactive Error Console →
Hammertime (GitHub repo) is a new interactive error console for Ruby by Avdi Grimm, modelled after those found in the Squeak/Smalltalk and LISP environments. It fills some of the same roles as…
Hijack: Get A Live IRB Prompt For Any Existing... →
Hijack (it’s still in a beta state, so be careful and don’t use it in production yet!) lets you to pry your way into a running Ruby process, where it drops you into a live IRB session running over…
Toto - The tiniest blog engine in Oz →
Everything that can be done better with another tool should be, but one should not have too much pie to stay fit. In other words, toto does away with web frameworks or DSLs such as sinatra, and is…
Google leaps language barrier with translator... →
Google is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly â like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy.
The Future of Content - Cheap and Plentiful →
Never heard of Demand? Youâve probably seen its products. The company has five times more video on YouTube than any other single source and over one million original articles floating around the…
Ruby Gets An Official Spec: Heading To Become An... →
It’s long been a bone of contention in the Ruby world that Ruby, as a programming language, doesn’t have an official spec (though RubySpec has been a noble, community effort to build an executable…
Varnish →
Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. It uses the advanced features in Linux 2.6, FreeBSD 6/7 and Solaris 10 to achieve its high performance.
“Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously...”
– MIT discovery promises clean energy future
“Home built power generation systems will help us move away from current...”
– Home Built Power Generation Systems - Do It Yourself
“I wonder what old Thomas Edison would say if he knew that his name is now being...”
– Toward a Clean Energy Future | The New York Observer
What if the Grid dies? →
There are two problems to face. The first is the modern electricity grid, which is designed to operate at ever higher voltages over ever larger areas. Though this provides a more efficient way to run the electricity networks, minimising power losses and wastage through overproduction, it has made them much more vulnerable to space weather. The high-power grids act as particularly efficient...
“The incursion of the plasma into our atmosphere causes rapid changes in the...”
– Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
“In the event of the power going off for an extended period, humanity’s...”
– Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge?
“Electronic records rot much faster than paper ones, and NARA must either figure...”
– The Fading Memory of the State
Digital information storage needs to catch up. We need a more permanent way to store digital information. Books and paper records have the benefit of being relatively long-lasting. If digital storage could compete with this—which, I think it can—and...
“89 percent of investigators agreed that a nationwide computer network should be...”
– Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data
You mean they don’t have one already?
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Take the Power Back: The Ecoenergy Initiative
We should band together to quit consuming newspapers and printed periodicals altogether in their present form. The publishing and premium content industries should be encouraged to transition to newer, cleaner tech—and develop new delivery methods in conjunction with the e-reader and computing platform manufacturing industries. The government could even possibly subsidize e-readers for...
Snow like fallout flocks / sidewalks—slabs the undead roll / on petroleum #haikuaday #haiku