6th
Jul
Google’s explanation for six hours of downtime was basically, “Shit got ill”.Ted Dziuba
3rd
Jul
The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News
why you can’t write StackOverflow in a weekend. The point about developers just seeing two DB tables rings true.
30th
Jun
Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
As much about why industries die out because of disruptive change as SciPub.
24th
Jun
10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug
a useful set of tools - I wish I’d found these sooner.
16th
Jun
Easy Markup Validation
A simple gem to ensure valid markup. It can also take a schema to validate XML.
13th
Jun
Lightning talk on Sinatra and Rack
There was a great dynamic languages evening at the BCS this week - people from the php, perl, python and ruby communities gave a series of lightning talks. I did one on Sinatra and Rack - focusing on the benefits of simplicity.
Web simplicity: Ruby, Sinatra & Rack View more Microsoft Word documents from knaveofdiamonds.
2nd
Jun
Dudes all over the world, in every city, even ones that haven’t banned plastic bags know C.Joel Hayhurst on writing web applications in C
26th
May
22nd
May
rhomobile
found out about this at londroid last night - write mobile apps in ruby.
20th
May
Without split-testing, your product tends to get prettier over time. With split-testing, it tends to get more effective.Eric Ries
19th
May
Presentation on Treetop
I gave a presentation on Treetop last night at lrug - seemed to go down well. There aren’t many examples of treetop grammars I’ve seen, so it might be useful if you find the main site’s documentation a bit impeneterable.
Treetop - I’d rather have one problem View more presentations from knaveofdiamonds.
13th
May
Demystifying Irb's Commands
irb has a lot more to it than I thought.
9th
May
Multiple Sinatra applications in one process
a neat way to compose applications
6th
May
Oberon
a ZUI that apparently you can get to run under parallels. Need to check this out.
