Archive for June, 2006
YM4R for Rails
I haven’t actually implemented this yet, but I should have more news on it in an hour. Looks awesome.
You: What is YM4R?
Me: Why, Yellow Maps for(4) Ruby.
You: Why would I be interested in it?
Me: Honestly, I don’t know. If you don’t want to map things in Ruby, I can’t imagine that you even [...]
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If you want to use the scoped_access plugin for Rails, install Ruby 1.8.4.
Otherwise, you’ll get the following error:
NoMethodError: protected method `scoped_methods’ called for Member:Class
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excellent quote
Ruby makes all of this possible because the Ruby runtime system is completely introspectable and modifiable. This ability is lacking in almost every other programming language, save Smalltalk. This fact led Stuart to say one of my favorite quotes from the conference: “The notion that you’d never want production systems to be introspectable has to [...]
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http://tadek.pietraszek.org/blog/2006/02/26/geolocating-ip-addresses-for-free/
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http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=d0235a70-33f1-45b3-803b-829b1b3542ef&
That's from CANADA, yo…
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"there is an equal or greater likelihood that the project is a nightmare that could only be completed in 3 months by a team of ninjas on amphetamines" — Sam Schenkman-Moore
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The original post on this can be found here.
Jeremy Flint suggested it be a non-techie presentation, to cater to the good third non-techie users that will be there.
As a vote tally, looks like I have the following:
2 Action Web Services
1 RJS
1 Benefit of Ruby/Rails over other languages/frameworks
1 What it takes to get a dev environment [...]
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I just saw Al Gore on ABC's World News Now talking about his new OMGSCARYumentary, An Inconvenient Truth, with an interviewer (heck if I remember the guy's name). The interviewer would ask (and this is my honest effort at representing him correctly, but will inevitably be a paraphrase due to my having seen this [...]
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Free Crypto course
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
sweet.
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