September 2009
55 posts
RT @stringbot: Palm is doomed. You really can’t afford to alienate your developers before you even have users. http://bit.ly/2JEMI
As much as I like TextMate, it seriously has the most horrendous system halting “Search/Find in Project” feature in the history of software.
Which best describes using the Visitor Pattern with Flow-Based Programming in a functional paradigm? Nomadic Monads or Monadic Nomads?
So is this what whytheluckystiff is up to now? Way cooler than Shoes (maybe not as cool as Bloopsaphone though) http://www.why-yachts.com/
Am about to go medieval. Just discovered that there is actually something worse than PHP. That is PHP on Windows. 3 more crap-filled days
Had to go to a command-prompt in Windows today. “ls” FAIL. “cat” FAIL. “tail” FAIL. “ln” FAIL. “grep” FAIL. This feels so alien to me now.
I know pear has mirrors, but none of them seem to mirror the pear installation script. :-p Which means I still can’t use them.
pear.php.net has been down for a day now. Kinda messing with the final deployment we’re trying to do. Talk about crap de grâce. #php
10 Awful IE Bugs and Fixes http://bit.ly/4MHXu (useful bookmark) (via @joe_carney) Really useful stuff. Pop em all in a file called ie.css
Lexical Scope and Class Name assignment http://gist.github.com/192949
Why does Windows 7 have a “shake” gesture for mouse users? Accelerate your repetitive stress injury with Windows 7!
EXTREMELY looking forward to starting my new job at CloudCrowd.com on October 1st.
Actually, I *will* consider coding PHP again, but only for $10,000 an hour.
Okay, If not elitest, the @rubyconf capacity of 440 is, at best, stupid. Monthly SFRuby meetup is 60-120 people, and that’s just one meetup
This years @rubyconf == FAIL. There is no excuse for limiting the size of the conf to 440 people. It’s elitist and doesn’t help Ruby.
I learned to code BASIC on my TRS-80 Model III so I could get Group6 access and emancipate the systems of the world from the MCP #selftaught
Am I the only San Franciscan who is pissed off at #RubyConf because there isn’t even room to register for the waitlist? Get a real venue!?
Who thought switching MySpace from CF to .NET was going to make it better? Like getting healthy by switching from McDonalds to White Castle.
My javascript implementation of the super keyword for overloading/around_methods http://gist.github.com/189370 Is there a better way?
If your programming language doesn’t support implicit-virtual-lazy-multi-continuation-macro-meta-monad-closures, then you FAIL!
RT @noradio: “Facebook has nearly no overhead.” @NPR on how Facebook is able to be profitable. I consider $.5billion a yr in costs overhead.
I find it sad that someone is just squatting on imgonnaletyoufinish.com without at least the equivalent of a http://rubyonrails.ytmnd.com/
The worst thing about JavaScript, really, is the name.
Just spent a couple minutes looking for a color theme for syntax highlighting that could make PHP not look like crap. fg:#000 bg:#000
Adobe really shouldn’t have added persistence to Flash aka Flash cookies that circumvent browser policies without considering privacy issues
Doing something only once is *actually* more efficient than doing something 1000 times, 1000 times faster.
Apache Bench comparing serving an EMPTY PHP file vs a mongrel providing FULL Rails stack rendering a HAML template: PHP ~0.9ms Rails ~2.1ms
Benchmarking PHP MVC frameworks to deliver empty pages vs running Rails to deliver empty page shows perf numbers significantly Rails favor
I am so disinterested in trying to prove that performance/scaling arguments against Rails are outdated and ignorant.
http://restpatterns.org
First videos of the SICP replacement course at MIT: http://bit.ly/14pstT (thanks for the post, @mfeathers)
Crossing my fingers that I might actually convince my superiors to allow me to use Ruby on the next phase of this project. Wish me luck.
It’s like JQuery, but in PHP. http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
Why is it that every time I wind up having to google for a way to do something with PHP I inevitably discover there IS NO WAY. #phpmustdie
There is no excuse for not using <label for=”x”> with a checkbox in 2009. I’m looking at you, Apple.com
Pro-tip: Only hire developers that code fluently in several programming languages.
In a meeting yesterday, someone was talking about Black-Box vs White-Box testing. What’s the difference if they’re both OPAQUE? “Glass-Box”
OH: “The prudent mariner prepares for the unexpected.” (via http://bit.ly/3MRw4) (via @noradio)
Just wanted to say that automatic dependency injection is really really really really great.
It would enable some interesting control structure options if there was a way in Ruby to trigger the calling context to return.
Interesting approach to code around “the dog-pile effect” in Rails apps, though there is no solution for an empty cache http://bit.ly/1xxh50
Javascript Paradox: typeof(NaN) == “number” #javascript #paradox
Having finally looked into the issue and given it much thought, I am totally horribly disgusted by HTML 5’s “data-” Attributes.
Not sure how I feel about XML literals via E4X in JavaScript 1.6. I assume this is ActionScript’s fault.
RT @bemaniac typeof(“ceci n’est pas un string”) == “string” #javascript #paradox
Best HTML5 feature so far is the doctype: “<!DOCTYPE html>”
Whoever came up with the syntax for XML DTDs and Qname modules should be KILLED.
Am presently enjoying writing HTML for some reason.
No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick.
Google QSB is actually not bad as a Quicksilver replacement. http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/