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 when you work for [...]
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
Gap recently redesigned their sites to support a single basket across all brands. Looks like every site is using a hidden iframe to register events that observe Prototype posts to the cart DOM element in the upper right. Probably some funky session stuff going on as well. Here’s my favorite feature: “Including the ability to [...]
Juno Pitchfork recommendations CSS frameworks Javascript libraries Insisting on always “rolling your own” (there’s a balance). Tagging A lot of Rails Plugins Most social networks Being a programmer Being a manager of programmers Being consistent Being right Having a strong opinion to blog about What else?
Once you leave your blog idle for awhile, it can be surprisingly difficult to want to go back.