October 2009
44 posts
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...
Oct 31st
Google Groups is dead →
Oct 29th
Refactoring: Ruby edition →
Just bought it.
Oct 29th
snip →
(via @joshuaclayton)
Oct 29th
browser tools
Firebug Live HTTP Headers
Oct 26th
The Real-Time Web (and Other Buzzwords)
Oct 23rd
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“He honed his computing repertoire while studying the universe’s fundamental...”
– no:sql
Oct 21st
pickling →
Python object serialization and byte streaming. Does this exist for Ruby?
Oct 21st
I want to be a platform →
“it is infinitely harder for a platform to spawn value added applications than it is for an application to evolve into being a platform.”
Oct 19th
Full text search on Heroku using Postgres →
Oct 19th
Gibbon →
Gibbon “apes Cucumber’s take on Given/When/Then Templates” for RSpec.
Oct 19th
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jQuery Sparklines →
Oct 17th
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Hosted Mongo →
By Fred Wilson. Union Square Ventures has funded 10gen, the maker of MongoDB. Common Thread seems to be the company making MongoHQ.
Oct 16th
The Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers Booklet
The Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers Booklet
Oct 16th
Oct 15th
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Sprockets →
Javascript files concatenated in production into one file. Used with gzip, this seems like the “right” approach. Minification seems unnecessary.
Oct 15th
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WatchWatch
nine-year old scores amazing goal. (via bcardarella)
Oct 15th
Facebook API info
Users.getInfo Storable data Understanding User Data and Privacy
Oct 15th
“I don’t feel like speaking anymore. I just want to go out there and play....”
– Gilbert Arenas
Oct 14th
Queue-Backed
Nice series by Adam Wiggins: Building a Queue-Backed Feed Reader, Part 1 Building a Queue-Backed Feed Reader, Part 2 Background Jobs with RabbitMQ and Minion
Oct 12th
“remove the messenger and take the message”
– RZA, when asked how he can reconcile the dogmas of Eastern religions, Christianity, Islam, Five Percent, numerology, comic books, kung fu, chess. “Everything is teaching us all the same path. It’s just that one religion was good for these people because of their living conditions.”
Oct 12th
Oct 12th
“Let me tell ya something. Nowadays, everybody’s gotta go to shrinks, and...”
– Tony Soprano
Oct 12th
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Full-text search with MongoDB →
Oct 11th
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GNU Screen →
For remote pair programming.
Oct 11th
The New Media Workout Plan →
Oct 10th
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Oct 8th
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Video: Edward Tufte on iPhone interface design →
Oct 7th
5 tags
UNIX man page sections
1 Commands available to users 2 Unix and C system calls 3 C library routines for C programs 4 Special file names 5 File formats and conventions for files used by Unix 6 Games 7 Word processing packages 8 System administration commands and procedures
Oct 7th
2 tags
Unicorn DESIGN →
philosophies on UNIX, I/O, sockets, syscalls, etc., when called from Ruby
Oct 7th
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books by Richard Stevens →
Oct 7th
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Oct 3rd
“if Larry Bird had ever played against the Celtics, I would have wandered the...”
– Bill Simmons, discussing Brett Favre playing as a Viking against the Packers on Monday night
Oct 3rd
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Oct 1st
Official "Shotgun!" rules →
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st