November 2009
1 post
October 2009
3 posts
Good Ruby Times →
Some interesting stuff here on good and bad things to do with Ruby. Perhaps someday I will be proficient enough that I can worry about these. ;)
What Batman can teach startups
nabeel:
A little while ago Brad Feld turned me on to the book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Basically, it’s a book, about comic books, that is about entrepreneurship.
I have no idea if this passage is going to translate for those that have not read the book, but it is as good a piece of startup advice at the early idea stage as you’ll hear. The context is that the two main...
“The whole VS package is rapidly turning .NET programmers into a hide-bound...”
– Redmond Developer News
September 2009
11 posts
“This is why we’ve hit the limit with industrialization. Industrial IT assumes...”
– The Agile Manager
This is why I never want to work in a big corporate IT setting again.
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of... →
One of the more amusing Mac vs. PC articles I’ve read. If he’s not exactly pro-Mac, he’s not exactly giving Microsoft a ringing endorsement either.
Topic : Missing Minimize on all windows →
I’ve seen this bug before — I actually thought it was an issue with VMware Fusion, not with OS X itself. Maybe it’s because that’s the only app I really use heavily with Spaces…
You know you're out in left field on climate...
Exelon Corp. CEO John Rowe dropped the news in a speech before the annual meeting of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). “Exelon is so committed to climate legislation that Rowe announced during today’s speech that Exelon will not be renewing its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce due to the organization’s opposition to climate legislation,” the...
“When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result, his men...”
– Captain Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October
Integrating Warbler and Buildr into Scala, JRuby,... →
Looks intriguing if you want to mix up a bunch of languages into your Ruby apps.
Migrating to Snow Leopard for Rails Development: A... →
This was very helpful for me in getting my MacBook set up.
“Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to...”
– Caterina Fake