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.
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
Apparently, policical and religious ideologies control the Texas text book approval process. Even if you don’t live in Texas this matters to you because, as the article explains, Texas has a disproportionate influence on text books in the US. H/T Martin over at The Atheist Experience
Cunning realist expresses my thought about the health care debate rather concisely. … in the United States we are getting near an era of civil unrest with hussein Obama pushing Socialism/Nazism on the people … During the past few weeks I’ve alternated between alarm and uninterested contempt. I’m still not sure which is more appropriate. [...]
I just read Blame Turned Upside Down1 by Robert Wright. I don’t think i have ever felt quite so uncomfortable while reading as i did during that essay. Its thesis is easy to apply to daily life and it quite handily explains the reactions of myself, and others, to many situations i have experienced. It [...]
When there’s no law, there’s no bread – Benjamin Franklin I am not sure which way the causality goes in that statement. I fear that it is a self re-enforcing where a slip on either side causes a slip on the other. I fear that because we in the USA are already well on our [...]
Today is my first on the job at ID Watchdog. After the normal pleasantries of getting a desk, etc, i had the pleasure of over hearing a conversation of some ops people in the kitchen. Apparently, a not so nice person provided the police with the identity of one of our clients rather than his [...]
I just received my unemployment insurance debit card, the default payment mechanism in Colorado. After dutifully reading the fee schedule i am appalled. If you are out of work it is quite likely that you need to make every penny count. But the debit card carries an obscene level of fees and usage charges. Here [...]
I am on the job market again. If you needs some help exposing your applications functionality via REST web APIs, we should talk. If you need some assistance developing, deploying and managing a Ruby application, I have the skills you need. If you need someone that can learn your code base and your business processes, [...]
I recently read Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Overall, I give it a 4 out of 5 – an excellent read. It is an interesting story presented at a reasonable pace and, most importantly, it introduce me to a couple of intriguing ideas. I definitely scrimped a bit on my sleep while I read it, not [...]
My name is Peter Williams. I am a father and software developer. (I do a few other things, of course, but family and software are what I am most passionate about.) This blog is primarily a place where I can rant without scaring too many people, but occasionally I record things of interest to my family here.
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