July 15, 2011: Stale Links
The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice...
July 15, 2011: Stale Links
The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice...
Sep 3, 2010: Twitter for iPad and Other Craziness
Book Status RSpec chapter edits complete, a dozen or so errata squashed, and hopefully we’ll get beta 7 out. I suspect it’ll be after Labor Day, though. I’m pleased with how this one turned out. The RSpec chapter is a challenge — I’m literally squeezing a book’s worth of content into a chapter, but I...
RubyLearning Associates and Participants on Twitter and Facebook
RubyLearning Associates and Participants on Twitter and Facebook RubyLearning has been associated with some amazing, talented people these last 5 years. I am compiling a list (in alphabetical order) showcasing them; people who have either undergone some of the courses at RubyLearning or have been instrumental in taking RubyLearning to the next level. Australia Dr...
Sitting on the dock of the bay
No links post this morning, maybe later today. Meantime, enjoy me blathering abouta a couple of substitutions in my iPad dock: Position: RSS Reader Incoming: Reeder Outgoing: NewsRack An easy call. NewsRack is nice, but Reeder is: Smoking fast. Without a limit on downloaded articles per feed Much more accurate on sync — NewsRack has...
May 10, 2010: The need for eyeballs
Top Story Let’s start with this: there’s a small but embarrassing typo in the Pragazine article code. Especially since it was a) called out by the author of Mocha and b) was a direct copy from the book, and from the Lulu version before that, so it’s been public for about a year, and I’ve...
April 15, 2010: The Library of Congress Recommends the Following Tweets
Top Story As part of the Chirp conference, Twitter and the Library of Congress jointly announced that the Library will be storing Twitter’s entire public archive. I’m sure your expecting an easy joke about how many sandwiches the LoC now knows about in their archive, or about how scholarly papers about the archive will be...
20+ Clojurians to Follow on Twitter
What’s Clojure?
According to Wikipedia: “Clojure is a modern dialect of the Lisp programming language. It is a general-purpose language supporting interactive development that encourages a functional programming style, and simplifies multithreaded programming. Clojure runs on the Java Virtual Machine and the Common Language Runtime. Clojure honors the code-as-data philosophy and has a sophisticated Lisp macro...
Rails Rx Standup: April 12, 2010
Top Story For a while, it looked like the top story was going to be Apple’s new developer Rule 3.3.1, described here by John Gruber. More on that in a second. But the real top story is the news that Twitter has bought Tweetie, intending to rebrand it as Twitter for iPhone, and dropping the...
Shorty Awards: Honoring The Best People and Organizations on Twitter
“Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the…Shorty Awards” – The New York Times
The second annual Shorty Awards nomination process has begun! In January 2010, the community is invited to nominate Twitter users for excellence over the past year. The awards recognize each content creator’s entire body of work, not just...
Twizzle Your Deplizzles
In which I show how to easily update Twitter with deploy notices that include the environment and revision.
Double Shot #574
Busy weekend. Let’s unload some of these browser tabs.
Improving Code using Metric_fu – A concrete example of how metrics can drive better code.
Eventbug (alpha) Released – New firebug extension to help in debugging event-related issues.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 – Probably about time for developers to think about upgrading. I’ve been running 3.7 alphas with no...
