13 New SD Ruby Podcasts Up
They’re all up at once. Wow.Mine felt good, but it’s long. Rather long. 50 minutes fairly non-stop, ~600 megs long. Find some time before watching.Episode 036: The Return of Kevin Clark Kevin Clark...
View ArticleThis is too entertaining not to share
I’ve apparently “hacked” someone’s unborn children. Or something.And, among the lists of names, includes someone who goes by the name of Kevin Clark. And, if you were to take it even one step further,...
View ArticleDepth First Search
Because I hadn’t implemented DFS in Ruby before, and it’s just so damn easy.Update: Phillip rightly pointed out in the comments that with the yield at the end, it’s actually post-order traversal, not...
View ArticleSecret Incantations
Install the do_postgres gem against postgresql82 on MacPorts:Make sure that /opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/ is in your path. You need pg_config easily accessible. Then run:sudo gem install do_postgres...
View ArticleRubinius Runs Mongrel
Reposted from my message to rubinius-dev. Congrats to the whole Rubinius team. This was entirely a group effort, and one hell of an achievement.Here's the first Mongrel handler running on Rubinius:...
View Articlepostgresql gem on Leopard stock gem system
This fails horribly.The solution is to make sure you’re only building for your architecture:Odysseus:ext kev$ sudo -s bash-3.2# ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386' gem install postgres Building native extensions....
View ArticleReally Simple Git Deployment with Vlad
Just drop this in your Rakefile. This is slightly modified from something I’m using in production.Disect! Enjoy! Explanation (read: spoilers) after the...
View ArticleTechCrunch's Twitter Article Translated from Arrington-Speak
With apologies to Gruber.Original text from TechCrunch.It doesn’t really matter if Twitter’s Chief Architect Blaine Cook was fired or resigned. The important thing is that he’s gone now, and this gives...
View ArticleHoly God, Powerset Launches
We’re out, searching Wikipedia and FreeBase. Proud doesn’t begin to describe my feelings about what’s been created. I think it speaks for itself, and I’ve been using it instead of Wikipedia for the...
View ArticleMicrosoft to Aquire Powerset
There’s details here. Sounds like they’re keeping us intact, and there’s something to be said about having an additional 10k machines behind you.We’ll see what happens.
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