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12sep2006

RailsConf Europe attendee

Off to RailsConf Europe 2006, chris blogs and Anarchaia will resume publishing on Sunday, September 17.

#ruby-lang
21:23 <chris2> mycase.pack(*stuff); Britain::London.travel { |there| there.attend RailsConf::Europe.new(2006) }; myroom << mycase.unpack

Ruby Performance Revisited, by Joel Spolsky. Oh!

Design patterns of 1972, found by Mark Dominus.

CardMeeting is a free-form sandbox for simultaneous long-distance collaboration. Looks good.

london calling
london calling by francisoh

Voluntary Technical Debt, very pragmatic: “To make progress so quickly, we cut a lot of corners. We didn’t implement any tests. We only programmed for the best-case networking scenarios. We let bugs creep in.”

Democracy Player, your Internet TV. Gonna give it a try.

World Record #4: Peristaltic Action, an 8 meter turd. WJW. PNSFW.

Strongtalk has gone fully Open Source! The virtual-machine source code is now available, as of September, 2006. Win32 only, at the moment.

Woke up this morning with light in my eyes
And then realized it was still dark outside
It was a light coming down from the sky
I don’t know who or why
— The Byrds, Mr. Spaceman

The Black Hole Theory of Design, James Gosling doesn’t seriously want to claim that closures are more complex than inner classes, does he?

Connecting with people in six steps isn’t true! My world view shatters!

Dynamic Languages Symposium at OOPSLA 2006. Awesome talks, it seems.

Languages used in Ajax development: the most – Java, the least – Ruby, by Hari K. Gottipati. Great. So what?

The history of a templating engine, some day I’ll write something like that too.

IMG_6474
IMG_6474 by tenn516

Happy September 11, a poem in Perl.

ThoughtIf Subversion 1.4.0 crashes for you trying to access http repositories, update libneon and link against the updated version.

Naan is a round flatbread made of wheat flour.

Text-Resize Detection, by Lawrence Carvalho and Christian Heilmann at A List Apart. “Use JavaScript to detect your visitor’s initial font size setting and find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.”

To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven
— Pete Seeger, Turn! Turn! Turn!

A Standardista’s Alphabet, by Jack Pickard at A List Apart. Neat.

#ruby-de
16:56 <eTM> achja, eine sache noch geb ich dir auf den weg
16:56 <eTM> wenn du als rails typ zurückkommst, dann übernehm ich den channel und schmeiss dich raus

The ruby-lang.org redesign went live. Nice.

CouchDb-Ruby, a Ruby based API for working with Couch’s flexible document store.