I was reading this blog post the other day, and it tied in to some of the recent discussion on this blog as related to NIN's open approach to making music available. The notion put forward (and linked to) is that copy protection is pointless. The blogger goes on to point out that "the fact [...]
Read More »Avoid the Find.find method if at all possible if you are working on an app that may need to be deployed with JRuby (instead of a native version of Ruby). See this issue (specifically the comment that starts with 'This description is not actually true.') for details.
Read More »Here's a reason to ignore people who give flippant advice (in this case me). Following is an interaction I had with my co-worker Rod who sits right next to me this morning . [Out of silence, a very annoying ringing sound ensues. ] Random developer [seeming very annoyed]: What is that sound? Rod [looking down [...]
Read More »So, I swing by a Starbucks on my way into the office this morning and pick myself up a latte. Nothing out of the ordinary yet. Now comes the odd part. This lady behind me (who I had noticed walking from a table outside where her husband was sitting with their Dachshund – important [...]
Read More »Working in conjunction with my coworker Rod, we came up with a name for code like this: begin … rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid => error end We're calling it 'THIS IS SPARTA!' code, as in the scene from the movie 300 where the king of Sparta kicks the Persian messenger into the archetypal infinitely deep black [...]
Read More »So, the documentation that tells you how to do what I'm about to tell you already exists, it just wasn't easy for me to find. Hopefully you've ended up here by googling for something like 'jruby cruisecontrol.rb'. I needed to get our JRuby project going under CruiseControl.rb, and it didn't just work out of the [...]
Read More »So, I'm chugging along, enjoying myself, writing some RoR code, and run across one of the funnier method names I've ever seen. I had to make an effort to use it, so here it is… I'm using it in as many yml fixtures as I can. created_at: <%= 1.fortnight.ago.to_s :db %> Fortnight? A [...]
Read More »http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html So, this is interesting to me. Interesting only in that it is going to be annoying how much play this gets, particularly leading up to and at JavaOne. I can imagine it will be a large conversation point there, which bothers me. This is probably because (allow me to identify myself with marketing terminology) [...]
Read More »So, I go to install the SpringIDE plugin, using the Callisto installation directions. I get part of the way through it, and receive an error, informing me that an internal error regarding the update manager's zip deflater has occurred, and it can't go on. After a bit of googling… I find this entry on Colin's [...]
Read More »So, today was my first day at OpenLogic. I'm sitting directly across from a colleague I've worked with before, Scott Nicholls… who also started today. Scott and I shared the Situation Room at the last company we worked at. (The quick explanation for that is that we were traveling on business together, and were flipping [...]
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