This thing happens to me pretty often: i start a story, work on it for a while then something urgent comes up.1 The urgent thing needs to be fixed right away but i have a lot of changes in my working directory. Unfortunately, the changes i have made are incomplete and non-functional. The usually suggested [...]
I have been using Resque quite a bit recently. It is a really nice asynchronous job system based on Redis. Resque checks the queues for jobs to process in a fixed order. (In alphabetic order, to be precise.) This turns out to be a problem is you want predictable handling time for jobs. For example, [...]
Rails 3 withdraws conneg support, http://is.gd/efmM9. Conneg is just not that difficult. Been thinking it might be time to move on, anyway.
I am a fan of polylithic architectures. Such architectures have many advantages related to enhancing evolvability and maintainability. When you decide to create a system composed of small pieces how do you decide what functionality goes into which component? Principles The goal is to sub-divide the application into multiple highly cohesive components which are weakly [...]
Anyhow, I’d just conclude by asserting that my new Emacs/Gnus/Org/ERC setup beats my old vim/mutt/nothing/irssi to the death with a baseball bat. :-) – Julien Danjou
A friend of mine recently described why he feels ruby is immature. I, of course, disagree with him. There is much in ruby that could be improved, but the issues he raised are a) intentional design choices or b) weaknesses in specific applications built in ruby. Neither of those scenarios can be fairly described as [...]
That is utah’s slogan, apparently,which is where we are today. We spent the last few days at the grand canyon and lake powell. Both are awe inspiringly beautiful. So much so that I will skip posting the completely inadequate pictures my phone captured. Elliot and Audrey are keeping travel journals. So far Elliot has ended [...]
Today we visited petrified forest national park today. We started in the painted desert area of the park. What desolate, beautiful landscape. After that we moved on to the petrified wood portion of the day. That stuff is just cool. It is amazing how wood like the permineralize type is. The fully petrified type is [...]
Vacation with the family has begun. I am very excited. We are going to see tons of interesting things in the southwest US over the next week.
Once you start using opensource at your day job you are going to want to improve it. Many improvements are going to be generally useful and should be contributed back to the community. A few of these changes may be quite specific and of no value to the community at large. Changes that are generally [...]
