Enjoy the Holidays with a new 1.9 Dev Release. Apparently Mongrel and Rails are fairly close to being compatible…. Nice overview here. Update. PragDave has some rather pragmatic advice for approaching the 1.9 development release. And yes, the last time I looked at my first year college compositions, I noticed more than a few tautologies. [...]
Alex Russell discussing why the W3C cannot save us: To get a better future, not only do we need a return to “the browser wars”, we need to applaud and use the hell out of “non-standard” features until such time as there’s a standard to cover equivalent functionality. Non-standard features are the future, and suggesting [...]
The future is parallel. No pretending otherwise when NYTimes is writing about it. Erlang, here I come…that is, if I ever get around to finishing this. I suppose I could also just listen to Paul Graham and relax… Except in special kinds of applications, parallelism won’t pervade the programs that are written in a hundred [...]
If you’re seeing the message above while working with RSpec and/or Restful Authentication generated code, try commenting out the following line in your Rails environment.rb before running the code generators again: config.active_record.observers = :user_observer. You should hopefully see your error message go away. I’m hopeful, at least.
So, you have your nifty new Rails 2.0 site up and running on a cluster of Mongrels proxied by Nginx and decide that you want to add a sub-domain to your slice to host a blog describing what your site does, since its “Web 2.0″ name doesn’t make a lick of sense. First you set [...]
24 Ways to impress your friends, assuming they’re web design dorks of one form or another. And I mean that in a good way. Happy Holidays!.
Fascinating, somewhat terrifying recent article from The New Yorker entitled Darwin’s Surprise: The process might take tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of years, but Darwinian selection would ultimately favor such mutations, and provide the opportunity for the evolution of a fitter human population. “If this were to be the outcome,’’ Villarreal wrote, “we would [...]
XP is about social change. It is about letting go of habits and patterns that were adaptive in the past, but now get in the way of us doing our best work. It is about giving up the defenses that protect us but interfere with our productivity. – Kent Beck If you haven’t read Kent [...]