Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

22apr2008

Kiss yourself, PNSFW but awesome.

Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails, by Michael Slater at A List Apart. “The combination of the language (Ruby) and the framework (Rails) means you can do more with less code.”

by travistysouth

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails, by Dan Benjamin at A List Apart. “This article isn’t a Rails programming tutorial. We won’t be writing code here, but I will introduce you to some of the important concepts critical to understanding how the Rails framework functions.”

When I’m drowning in the sea, I am
When you’re looking down at me, I am
When I’m walking in the streets, I am a bullet
When I’m looking and I find, I am
When I’m purer than the sky, I am
When I’m fucking with your mind, I am a bullet
— Kidney Thieves, Black Bullet

Wikipedia goes print, Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut bringt Wikipedia-Lexikon heraus. Nett.

Afghanistan swaps heroin for wheat, “with wheat prices doubling in the past year, and the street price of heroin falling, it is now more cost effective to grow wheat.” Plus you can make beer from it.

Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb tutorial, nice walkthough.

Screen by Darkeroom

If I could be anything
I’d be a machine gun
‘Cuz everytime I see you
I’m sorry I don’t own one
— Bang Sugar Bang, The Machine Gun Song

Hackystat is an open source framework for collection, analysis, visualization, interpretation, annotation, and dissemination of software development process and product data. A long range goal of Hackystat is to facilitate “collective intelligence” in software development, by enabling collection, annotation, and diffusion of information and its subsequent analysis and abstraction into useful insight and knowledge. Hackystat services are designed to co-exist and complement other components in the “cloud” of internet information systems and services available for modern software development.

Tidbits 1, by Chung-chieh Shan. I hope Anarchaia will end up like this when I can’t keep it up daily anymore.

NFS vs. CIFS for VMware, Dustin Puryear reports his experiences. Isn’t it amazing there is no network file system that doesn’t suck!?