October 2007
DTrace in Leopard with Ruby probes →
InfoQ: Debate: Why are most large-scale websites... →
circle-jerk
How Big Should a Function Be? →
Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick... →
via tumblefish
MEMRI: Wafa Sultan brings the smack-down. →
oh damn! (via drawohara)
cbs13.com - Apple Sends 3rd Grader Cease And... →
It’s ALWAYS a good idea to have lawyers acting as your interface with your customers. hahahaha
SkyandTelescope.com - See Comet Holmes Tonight! →
‘sup, Holmes!
Parsing X12N 835 Claim File in Ruby →
spgarbet at it again. word.
“I’ve entered the jaded agile phase. ”
– Wilkes
Motorhead Messiah - Fuel Efficient Cars -... →
via vinbarnes
“The problem is that the headless version won’t include .NET 2, because the...”
– What Hig[h] Coupling hath Wrought
The Agile Manager: IT Governance Maximises IT... →
take some decent advice, add buzzwords, shake, serve
Apple's Leopard rejects latest version of Java →
Meh. Good riddance — I’d use the extra 5GB for something more useful, like a .rar’d archive of Swedish-subtitled Mary Tyler Moore reruns. Anyway, I thought Java was “open source” now — 1337 J4v4 h4x0rz should just build their own. Ruby wasn’t supported on OS X until just now and it was always just a 30-second build away. What’s the big deal?
“We split over creative differences. I was creative, and Porter was different.”
– Dolly Parton, 1995 charity roast for Porter Wagoner
Country Legend Porter Wagoner Dead At 80 →
“There’s a guitar leaning on a Marshall stack used to sound like the sun...”
– Uncle Tupelo, “We’ve Been Had”
“I would never write (1..5).map &’*2’ in Java when I could write...”
– Raganwald, in the comments to his String#to_proc
Apple redesigning the MacBook Pro power adapter →
No doubt. I got 6 extra months by ripping the brick apart, re-soldering the cable, and building a custom case for it; but today the cable end closest to the laptop got hot and the shielding is melting off. It’s a pain in the ass to find a new brick on a Sunday, too: CompUSA doesn’t carry that stuff, local Apple Store doesn’t have them in stock, and MacAuthority is closed on...
Search and Browse Music Blogs > Elbows Music Blog... →
“In this sense, Oink was not only an absolute paradise for music fans, but it was...”
– When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide. Please read. (via drawohara)
Gisb: The Google Image Search Blog →
OfflineIMAP →
(for when my Gmailz finally gets the IMAP bit flipped — screw web browsers for editing email! — I want my mutt back, yo.)
赖洪礼的 blog » How the Ruby heap is implemented →
Jay Fields Thoughts: Rails: Unit Test without... →
“Try the ‘compressed cat cutlet!’”
– Just one of the sample “outtakes” from the Zagat / Today Show fast-food survey
Git Peepcode Screencast →
What's New in Edge Rails: Fixtures Just Got a... →
Magnolia Electric Co. » Live Archive →
How to play/convert FLAC files in iTunes →
of course, the open source VLC player plays these and basically anything else on the planet, straight out of the box. Go figure.
Marketplace Drama Theory →
the PDF on the site is worth reading
“I slipped my headphones off, and couldn’t believe the cacophony. If someone had...”
– Jeff Kay’s West Virginia Surf Report! 10/25/2007 (yeah, two surf report links in one day)
WhatsNewInLeopard - ruby - Trac →
A complete rundown of ruby as it exists on the new mac os. (via drawohara)
Jay Fields and Zak Tamsen on Domain Specific... →
“Garrison Keillor is only 65? I would have guessed he was at least 10 years...”
– commentor, on Stalking Garrison Keillor
Jeff Kay buys a Moleskine →
a #$^@ing must-read.
The Prize Is Won; The Simplest Universal Turing... →
Buddhism In a Nutshell: The Four Seals of Dharma →
“Buddhism is distinguished by four characteristics, or ‘seals.’ If all these four seals are found in a path or a philosophy, it can be considered the path of the Buddha.” (via drawohara)
The Great Pizza Orientation Test →
via vinbarnes
Office Pranks: Change the Default Message on HP... →
via the spassmeister
http://spawn.rubyforge.org/svn/spawn/README →
If you aren’t writing Matchers, you aren’t using... →
WHATWG to start work on "Bible5" →
Radiohead Said to Shun Major Labels in Next Deal →
booyaa
Huge pirate music site shut down →
What's New in Edge Rails: Filters get Tweaked →
Graphite Sequencer (2006) →
Graph Theory with Applications →
word, I haven’t seen this book in forever
King Corn →
via vinbarnes