July 2009
41 posts
“A tiny minority of paid users subsidizes the service for everybody. It is this...”
– Freemium-Shmeeium
The Future of Free →
Businesses making money on the Freemium model.
June 2009
28 posts
WatchStartup Junkies: Earth Class Mail
1 tag
How to Build a Startup →
JSONQuery'ing your Rails responses →
by John Nunemaker. Includes Shoulda-style macro.
effen: A jQuery plugin for Morphic programming →
(via technicalpicklejar)
Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST →
5 tags
Oniguruma cheat sheet →
Ruby uses the Oniguruma regular expression library. This is a comprehensive cheat sheet for it.
Massachusetts Noncompete Law →
MA Bill 1794
Startups stifled by noncompetes
kevin:
peterwknox:
Thanks to the beauty of the...
1 tag
Netflix prize close →
Alice & Kev: the story of being homeless in Sims 3 →
Smalltalk Daily Screencasts →
Shopify API →
Ruby at ThoughtWorks →
This article is an instant classic. An important reference in coming years for “selling” Ruby to organizations using other technologies.
Ruby client for Google Wave
For review later…
Wave protocol whitepapers
Google Wave Robots overview
Ruby client for Google Wave
How not to manage your brand on Twitter
Last night, I saw a tweet from Dr. Nic about a new tour of a “powerful project and task management” web app called Orchestrate. Interested, I read through the tour.
After looking at it for a couple of minutes, I had my impression of the app:
A product tour failed in its purpose: to get me to try the app. Why?
The interface is the first thing a customer sees
(screenshot from...
3rd party Ruby code to evaluate for 1.9 readiness
I’ve gone through all Rails apps for which my company gets paid and gathered a list of unique gems & plugins which need to be evaulated for Ruby 1.9 readiness.
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Phish, Fenway Park, March 31st, 2009
A week after Memorial Day & summer is in full swing. The circus came to town.
(via edwardshepard)
After a five year hiatus (not counting Hampton in March), legendary jam band Phish returned at Fenway Park in my hometown to launch a summer tour.
One thing I love about this band: less than 24 hours after the show, it’s available for download.
(via fpharpua2002)
While I lost the...
8 Ways for a Legal System to Fail
by Lon L. Fuller
The lack of rules or law, which leads to ad-hoc and inconsistent adjudication.
Failure to publicize or make known the rules of law.
Unclear or obscure legislation that is impossible to understand.
Retroactive legislation.
Contradictions in the law.
Demands that are beyond the power of the subjects and the ruled.
Unstable legislation (ex. daily revisions of laws).
...
Powerset in Ruby using the list Monad →
by one Mike Burns, my left-hand man.
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Dr Nic's "Future proofing your Ruby code" →
Installed Ruby 1.9 over the weekend to play with some things. In particular, I wanted to try simulating Smalltalk’s keyword messages using 1.9’s new Hash syntax.
Smalltalk:
at:put: (Integer)
at: index put: value
Ruby:
def at(index, put = {}) end at index, put: value
Well, I installed it from source which meant I came in this morning and work Rails apps are breaking. I basically...