January 2008
42 posts
GemStone and Ruby →
“We are applying our persistence to the Smalltalk Seaside framework. It will be released [Fall of 2007]. The approach in Seaside will be very similar to what we are looking at doing for Ruby and Rails.” Since much of ActiveRecord is there because of the impedance mismatch between objects and relational databases, a lot of ActiveRecord will be unnecessary. For example, belongs_to,...
Military strategy, military tactics
This is enjoyable: military strategy and a list of military tactics.
Prevalyer tutorial →
Object persistence in Java.
Ruby CSS →
Dynamic stylesheets based on the settings of a User, or other model.
Ruby RSS Aggregator →
For use in National Gazette, 2.0.
Thin →
Ruby web server, uses UNIX socket connections.
CSS Reference →
“None of our hands are clean. So let us say that on this day of all days, each of...”
– Barack Obama, speaking on the topic of race in Atlanta on the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Marshmallow →
Hook your Subversion commits into Campfire.
“25% of all Republicans and 35% of all Democrats have had more than 10 sexual...”
– Playboy
Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion →
Will offer support for enterprise customers.
MySpace still kicking Facebook's ass in terms of... →
The numbers are surprising.
assert_efficient_sql →
Really cool.
The electorate is waking up →
Dave Winer has some excellent comments on what has happened in the 2008 campaign thus far: What the electorate needs is to hire someone to lead us for the four years between elections. It needs someone who will ground our collective behavior in something resembling reality, so we deal with the problems that are collectively in front of us: The honor and prestige of our country (the equivalent of...
Obama, McCain win Dixville Notch
The Nashua Telegraph reports: Obama was the clear winner on the Democratic ticket with 7 votes. John Edwards won two, Bill Richardson one. Sen Hillary Clinton received no votes. McCain received 4 votes to Mitt Romney’s two and Rudy Giuliani’s one.
BigThink →
Videos from Big Thinkers. Needs an RSS feed.
“The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest...”
– Seen around the web.
Foxy fixtures →
Brushing up on the new(ish) fixture improvements.
Beanstalk messaging queue →
Comments indicate BackgrounDRb and ap4r are popular alternatives.
“I was in a bar tonight watching the results come in and a pundit came on the TV...”
– (via Andrew Sullivan)
Young and in Love →
The New Republic says the congressman from Texas has the race’s best batch of student volunteers.
The Left and Ron Paul →
A treatise from Counterpunch explaining their support for the “lunatic” Ron Paul.
_why's 2006 RailsConf keynote →
I like the people of the future.
Bringing encryption into your daily routine
From 37Signals: 1. Encrypted mail for Mail.app: follow this guide. 2. Adium for encrypted IM. 3. Knox for encrypted disk images.
Economic philosophies of Clinton and Obama →
One of the main reasons I’m supporting Obama.
“Google has no problem championing open standards in industries that it is hoping...”
– Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch
FairTax Facts →
The FairTax is proposed legislation in Congress that would replace the current federal income tax with a national retail sales tax. It would: likely make the American economy the most desirable place in the world to do business eliminate the Internal Revenue Service reduce complexity in the tax code not hit the poorest Americans the hardest it would dramatically expand the tax base, collecting...