August 2011
1 post
Maslow 2.0: A New and Improved Recipe for... →
It seems his pyramid is pretty flat after all.
February 2011
3 posts
Beatles mockumentary from the year 3126 →
Wikipedia — TimeBoxing →
“…Timeboxing can be a favorable type of contracting for projects in which the deadline is the most critical aspect and when not all requirements are completely specified up front.”
“The system is insolvent if no one knows what to do next except repeat the...”
– Gordon Gekko, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (via taitran)
January 2011
1 post
Comment faire des scénarios de revenus... →
September 2010
1 post
Apple's open standards, but only on their products →
“Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™….”
August 2010
1 post
Ground Zero: Exaggerating the Jihadist Threat →
National myopia poses a bigger challenge to the U.S.’s long-term stability than terrorism ever will.
July 2010
3 posts
Trop d’antibiotiques dans la viande →
Santé Canada aux consommateurs: “Incitez les agriculteurs à ne donner des antibiotiques à leurs animaux qu’en cas de nécessité.”
How facts backfire →
Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
Following on the same subject as one of zboing’s post, The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)…
Les nouveaux vernis à eau : sains et durables →
June 2010
1 post
Lord Martin Rees: Humans too simple to understand... →
Directly related to zboing’s mention of The Anosognosic’s Dilemma. Rees talks about the specific subject of understanding the universe as a whole, while Dunning talks about the subset of that universe that most people perceive as being whole.
May 2010
3 posts
Demistifying what computers can (and cannot) do
Just stumbled on this blog post by a developer for the Cuil search engine, in which he tries to readjust the expectations of some users about their new automated encyclopedia feature (so they call it), called CPedia. One phrase, which greatly depicts one of the main problems with natural language processing, caught my attention:
“The notion of the identity of objects is not a settled matter...
“The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that...”
– Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare...”
– Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
0 posts
Google Wave API - Google Code →
April 2009
2 posts
I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com →
“We are too lazy to change subjects every daay, please buy our products”
– Received as an actual spam message subject line in my junk folder!
March 2009
1 post
userfly — instant web usability testing →
This tool provides a virtual “Over the shoulder” approach to usability testing. I must say I’m impressed.
January 2009
1 post
method_ni - GitHub →
December 2008
1 post
Raphaël—JavaScript Library →
November 2008
2 posts
4 tags
VoxOx.com | Take Control →
3 tags
Rails authentication - Authgasm →
September 2008
3 posts
Log Rotation with Mongrel →
4 tags
Rails - Query memcached →
Google Chrome - Download a new browser →
August 2008
4 posts
4 tags
Mozilla Ubiquity In Depth →
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity →
4 tags
The Dojo Offline Toolkit | The Dojo Toolkit →
4 tags
Joyent: Slingshot →
July 2008
4 posts
4 tags
Cuil - The World's Biggest Search Engine →
4 tags
The Rails Documentation App - Rails-doc.org →
3 tags
SWF searchability FAQ →
3 tags
Improved Flash indexing →
June 2008
5 posts
5 tags
Subversion batch rename
To rename a series of files which are under SVN control, simply use this command at the Windows command prompt:
for %A in (*.rhtml) do svn rename %~nA.rhtml %~nA.html.erb
In this example, I changed the extension from .rhtml to .html.erb, to make things cleaner after I upgraded my Rails app to version 2.1.
Next step would be to scrape the whole app/views dir tree and do it all at once. Maybe...
3 tags
Wordled Rails
4 tags
Erubis: fast and extensible eRuby implementation →
5 tags
tru2way →
Successor of the OpenCable spec, it’s said that this middleware platform will be builtin in many new Consumer Electronic products. Too bad I ditched Java.
4 tags
RubyNode →
RubyNode is a library that allows read only access to Ruby’s internal NODE structure.
April 2008
2 posts
Petro-Canada earnings increase 70% from last... →
I had to mention that one. That’s a profit of $1 billion in 3 months. Yet, we still drive our cars as if we had to contribute more.
4 tags
Microsoft Surface →
March 2008
4 posts
3 tags
Passenger and other Ruby frameworks →
4 tags
Monit makes Mongrel play nice! - igvita.com →
4 tags
TDD Proven Effective! Or is it? →
Go on read that post, as I totally agree. Especially with this statement:
“Ask yourself this, which unit tests are going to be better, the ones created before you’ve implemented the functionality or those created after? Or, considered another way, at which point do you have a better understanding of the problem domain, before implementing it or after? If you’re like me, you understand the...
2 tags
PragDave: The 'Language' in Domain-Specific... →
October 2007
2 posts
August 2007
5 posts
3 tags
flow|state: OpenID: Great idea, bewildering... →
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2 tags
iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity,... →