May 2008
57 posts
5 tags
MagLev
MagLev is the Ruby-ized version of one of the best object databases in the world. Keeping a running list of MagLev posts:
Avi Bryant - “I started off by describing MagLev as a “full stack Ruby implementation”, in the same way that Rails is a full stack web framework. To understand what I mean by that, see my earlier post on the Gemstone architecture: not only does MagLev...
mod_rails on OS X →
The Obama Internet Presidency →
From The Atlantic … Abraham Licoln was to newspapers as FDR was to radio as JFK was to television as Barack Obama is to internet.
Postable →
Escape large quantities of HTML.
Web Applications - Spaghetti Code for the 21st... →
PDF from Sun Labs, coming out of the Lively Kernel group.
AR backup →
Check out the YAML files on that hose-hound!
Snap Ballot →
Dead simple polls. Wow. That’s nice work.
GPS.rb →
Reading GPS from Ruby.
WikiMedia.rb →
Hit the Wikipedia API from Ruby.
PR secrets for startups →
Plastic bag decomposed in three months →
Hell yeah, brother.
OpenBSD manual pages →
Talk about useful.
GreenFuel →
Bob Metcalfe (invetor of Ethernet) is interim CEO of GreenFuel, which aims to harvest CO2 in algae form, which can be used as feed (for animals), food (for humans), and fuel (for machines).
How to contribute patches to Rails with github and... →
Aye aye!
Rubinius runs Rails →
Big step.
ParenScript →
ParenScript is a small Lispy language that can be compiled to JavaScript. It also comes with client-side HTML and CSS generation libraries. This approach simplifies the development of web applications by enabling all components of the application to be written in Lisp, so that HTML, CSS and JavaScript code can all be generated with the full power of Lisp and its macros.
Watch
YAML and JSON over XML →
True.
Deductive reasoning →
conclusions are intended to necessarily follow from its premises
“Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. …...”
RFC Best Current Practices Series →
Feel like I stumbled upon the specification for the Internet.
The Hacker's Handbook →
Old, out of date, full of interesting opinions on hacker culture.
CIA page on Powerset →
Pretty cool, I guess.
Improvements Catalog →
Some cool stuff within.
NDE magazine →
Some kind of crazy lock-picking enthusiast magazine.
Freecycle →
Worldwide gifting movement.
“Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the...”
– [via the The New Yorker]
Better Partials for Rails →
Block form feels nice in Haml.
vi clone in JavaScript →
One Encoding to Rule Them All →
Unicode/UTF-8 hnow most popular encoding on web.
Portmanteau →
Engineers Without Borders →
Found the link in the Preface to the Ruport book.
Kick the plugin habit, go gems →
This is my favorite feature of Rails 2.1. Gems are becoming easier to use than plugins. Soon plugins shall be obsolete, like the /components directory or ActionWebService. Muah-ha-ha! My day is at hand! Plugins are an unnecessary system when we already have a perfectly good Ruby packaging system that should be leveraged: RubyGems.
Decentralizing Twitter →
Techcrunch’s coverage.
SSL in a Rails app →
Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? →
Richard Stallman
Hobo Railroad →
Lake Winnepesaukee, NH trains.
Green Mountain Flyer →
Vermont trains.