August 2007
25 posts
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Of 30 Rock fame
“Someone in some locker room is going to say, you can’t win them all if you...”
– John Madden, blaming his love for obvious soundbites on “someone in some locker room”.
“It’s a Small Wonder, like Vicki, why I’m picky”
– BLACK STAR - HATER PLAYERS LYRICS — Talib Kweli is my hero
“But that should not be a *technical* distinction, it should be a *social* one,...”
– Linux Torvalds (Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists [LWN.net]). He might be a jerk, but at least he sees the important distinction between technical and social problems.
Undo changes in Subversion
Everytime you look it up in the Subversion book, an angel gets its wings: svn merge -c [changeset] - .
Exploring Erlang →
Bonus points for tasteful use of LOLcats
“Aliased by quacks_like”
– Docs for Mocha’s responds_like: Class: Mocha::Mock. The Duck Punching juggernaut rolls on!
The rantings of Clinton Forbes: Doctest for Ruby... →
Thanks, but no thanks.
“Most of the dancers at Penthouse are independent contractors compensated by the...”
– $1 Bills OK?; emphasis on “independent contractors”. Also, strip clubs have “house moms”? Don’t sorority houses have house moms too? Hello, connection!
The Secret Sauce of Highly Productive Software... →
Its all about turning the learning up to 11
“Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation’s largest Southern Baptist...”
– Baptist seminary launching homemaking program |
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“Beauty is an idealistic fantasy: what really matters is the quality of the never...”
– Alarming Development : Beautiful Code
“Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.”
– Bike sheds and C. Northcote Parkinson - (37signals)
An under-the-hood look at the new Backpack -... →
Notable if only that it proves Sam Stephenson still exists ;)
“Unlike databases, jokes, the other form of knowledge on the Web, reveal what you...”
– Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberber
Thou shall trust thy infrastructure →
Email as microbes →
A really rad visualization
Note to self: Rails’ development and test environments are not completely de-coupled. When you run tests via Rake, the database is cloned from development to test. So if you migrate your test database and then run tests, it will blow away the migrations if you haven’t migrated your development database.
Forehead smack!
“People Are the Ultimate Leaky Abstraction”
– People Over Process » Java’s Fear of Commitment