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No Relation: Mixed Blessings of Non-Relational Databases
Master’s thesis from Ian Thomas Varley at the University of Austin.
Harvard paper: two-sided matching market
Basis for some of Google’s auction techniques is a Harvard paper.
The Madison Ave Hangover: Goodbye Broadcast
The next step in advertising is starting in Boston with a little company called Shortbord.
markup & style research for new projectbluebook.fm
background pattern & transparency, Trina’s Starlight Lounge
typography & smart phone styles, What’s on Draft
javascript audio player, Muxtape
gist: 220908 - hubcut
Gist to migrate gems from Github to Gemcutter.
update rubygems output message
This is nice. I recently saw something similar I liked with the heroku gem, where it forced me to upgrade to the latest version when I tried to use it, and outputted the gem update command.
[~] sudo update_rubygems
Installing RubyGems 1.3.5
RubyGems 1.3.5 installed
=== 1.3.5 / 2009-07-21
Bug fixes:
* Fix use of prerelease gems.
* Gem.bin_path no longer escapes path with spaces. Bug #25935 and #26458.
Deprecation Notices:
* Bulk index update is no longer supported (the code currently remains, but not
the tests)
* Gem::manage_gems was removed in 1.3.3.
* Time::today was removed in 1.3.3.Refactoring: Ruby edition
Just bought it.
