January 2008
11 posts
New Git Hosting Site →
Another link from the previously mentioned RoR podcast. Looks really nice: check out the spiffy activity sparklines.
Now if only I could get a beta password…
FamSpam: Scooped! →
Well, the lesson to be learned here is that if you have an idea for a web app, you need to implement it immediately. The err free guys are pretty smart and it looks like they’ve done a heck of a job.
On their appearance on the Ruby on Rails podcast they talk about some of the problems they found with writing an application that had to integrate with email.
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"Phony" might be a little strong... →
…but this is pretty much my feeling as well.
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FuseFS on a Mac →
If you’re having FUSE problems I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but MacFUSE ain’t one.
Trying to get Ruby FuseFS to work on a Mac? Try this.
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Ruby gets a sub-reddit →
I’m not sure if I like the idea of fragmenting proggit, but I suppose if it means we get our own reddit alien I’ll come around to it.
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I've been playing around with FuseFS →
Here’s something on my macroblog to help out any other Ruby peoples trying out FuseFS.
The Wonders of Ruby's instance_eval
“You know what I’d like to see in Ruby?” my friend asked rhetorically.
“Ummm…”
“Multiple block syntax. Like in Enumerable#detect, I wish I could write the ifnone block the same way as the comparator.”
“Oh yeah — someone asked Matz about that at RubyConf. (ed: I believe it was here, but it may have been here.) He said he’d...
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C's typing: weak or just not-strong?
C is not a strongly-typed language…
K&R, p. 3
Backing up a moment here…
“So you’re a programmer, but you can’t do C?”, the imaginary person said to me.
“Well, I can, but it’s more like just C++ without objects”, I said. “I know pointers and stuff… and I guess I can collect my own garbage.”
Oh the shame of...
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