It’s far from complete, but launched a Twitter swap site tonight. The basic idea is to have creative folks offer their skills or services and swap skills with others to get things done without the taint of cash. We’ll see how it goes…..
Link to other Twitter mashups.
I might be the last person to know these things, but if you wish to invoke a rake task within another rake task, here’s the syntax:
Rake::Task["thinking_sphinx:index"].invoke
And, if you happen to get funky “bad minute” errors when trying to setup said rake task via cron, make sure your cron command fits on one line while ediiting [...]
What a great week if you’re a jellyfish or one of the world’s largest oil companies. Can’t be related can it?
Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him [...]
Great article from the NYTimes this morning about ridiculous sports salaries juxtaposed against recent layoffs at GM. Depressing stuff and one of the reasons I sorta hate professional sports as I get older. Of course, athletes and franchise owners aren’t the folks guilty of nonsensical greed. It just seems more ridiculous [...]
But I sure do get a ton of it on this site. Not sure which of my updates irked Messieurs bobeCoila, sadaamozy and gepedgerm the most, but they’re posting an annoying amount of comments that makes even coming to my sites admin page a depressing venture. The terrorists win again.
Arguments about multiple Ruby VMs
Discussions about Twitter’s demise
Clueless clients
Every self-important blog posting I’ve read this month
Everything I said in April and May
Excellent news from RailsConf regarging GemStone’s new Ruby VM. Although, with all this work, I do sorta wonder why can’t we just push Smalltalk more into the mainstream? Or is it already secretly mainstream?
If you don’t already know about it, check my blogroll for Harper’s weekly updates. They’re just too damn good (and often depressing). From this past week:
House Republicans began using a new slogan, “the change you deserve,” which turned out to be the slogan of the antidepressant Effexor.11
