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“ That poster may as well be titled “Fucked 6 Ways From Sunday,” because that’s what you’ll be if you buy into any of this.

— Silly season [dive into mark]

“ The library is called Rebar (Ruby to Erlang Bridge And Runner). Rebar has two parts: an Erlang server and a Ruby client. The server listens for JSON-RPC requests, calls the specified Erlang function, and responds with a JSON-RPC response. The Ruby client object simply accepts any method name, captures it with method_missing, wraps everything up in a JSON-RPC request, fires it off, waits for the response, and then extracts the result out of the JSON-RPC response, returning it like a normal Ruby call.

— Ruby is Awesome—{ :ruby => “awesome” }

Sorry for the gap, I was in Rome on vacation.

» Each of these case studies spammed Google only to act surprised when they are marked as spammers in the index. They blame it on accidents or outside consultants: SEO snake-oil salesmen. I'm sure they didn't think of what they were doing as spamming but one of them sums it up when they explain: "you have to keep on the cutting edge". well, consider yourself cut.

» This bug is keeping dhcp from working on my laptop. Workaround: use a static address. no big deal.

“ This web site is generated entirely using .htaccess, simple CSS and XHTML, and local file system navigation. We wrote it to test the feasability of powering a content management system entirely in Apache.

— Apache Demonstration

» DHH talks in metaphor now. Some rails fanboy will code an implementation of this soon.

» Microsoft Google Algorithm Interview Questions [Steve: I believe almost all of these are banned now]

“ The fight for USENET was earlier — much earlier. I think the first “imminent death of the net” call was about 1984, in fact. Those of us involved with the Backbone Cabal, as it became known, fought the fight for many years.

— Chuqui 3.0: KATHY SIERRA: A history lesson from Usenet - Valleywag

“ the fact that Scala is statically-typed (and potentially other aspects of Scala) led to a requirement of 60% of the tests that were needed for the equivilent Ruby application.

— etapic.name » Lines of Test Code