Curated
Rich Kilmer speaketh
Ruby’s Best Feature? Rich Kilmer is one of those uncanny developers who can crank out orders of magnitude more good code than your average developer. When he speaks, I always listen.
Awesome writing
I want to take that video behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
You need more Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett is quite possibly one of Texas' finest exports. If you’re not hip then you’re missing out. Heck, I was missing out; consider a couple of his appearances on the Johnny Carson show.
Make it a…cheeseburger.
Do I wish that I could sing like Francine Reed or Lyle Lovett? Every day.
Our trip to Germany in pictures
Here are four of my favorite pictures from our trip to Germany:
From top to bottom we’ve got the cool elevator at BMW Welt with glass doors, an old building in Munich with rather modern wings added on, a pygmy hippo at the Berlin zoo and a cool video wall at the BMW museum showing numbers that might appear as model numbers.
You can “look at all my pictures”:flickr.com/photos/th… or “check out”:flickr.com/photos/co… “Courtney’s”:flickr.com/photos/co… “pictures”:flickr.com/photos/co…
Pretty Parallax
jParallax - a JavaScript gizmo for composing images using a parallax effect. In other words, insanely cool.
"with" for Ruby
Use with caution:
That said, @with@ is discouraged in JavaScript. If you can, its better to have methods return @self@ so you can chain like so: @people.get_dressed.put_on_music.and_party!@
Last.fm's shame aggregator
Most Unwanted Scrobbles - Last.fm aggregates the tracks and artists that people don’t want the internet-at-large to know they listen to. Britney Spears appears twice in the top five songs, along with Nelly Furtado, Amy Winehouse and Avril Lavigne. The Beatles, Radiohead, Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne are the top 5 arists (along with Unknown.)
So I guess Last.fm users are just too damn cool to admit to some of their tastes. Me, I’m fine with letting you know I listened to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Mack Daddy in its entirety this week.
Interview with David Flanagan, part 2
The second part of my interview with David Flanagan is online. This time around we talk about the craft of programming in general. Its good stuff.
Catch up with 30 Rock
OK, here’s the deal. If you’re not watching 30 Rock, you’re not watching the best show on TV. There I said it. Fortunately, you’ve got time to catch up; the show doesn’t come back until October 30th. To whet your appetite, I give you clips summarizing the “lives” of the two main characters, played by Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey.
Interview with David Flanagan
Last week I interviewed the author of The Ruby Programming Langauge, David Flanagan. We posted the first part of it today - Five Questions with David Flanagan, Part 1. The second part will go up next week. Enjoy!
Program is information.
Its retro, its cool. It’ll come in handy when I need slides on the sameness of code and data in good programming languages.
Via Square America.
Realtime challenges
beyond rest - if publishing data in realtime, XMPP, Comet and scaling HTTP services pique your interest, this thread is an excellent read. Lots of smart people disagreeing here.
Some Grieg
Please to enjoy, Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. Brought to you by Artur Rubinstein and the London Symphony.
The rest of the first movement, the second movement and third movement, also for your enjoyment.
Thor and agility
Watching Thor at his agility classes is really interesting. It’s fun to see the dogs constantly looking up to their person to see what jump or obstacle to go to next. Of course, the class is half dog training and half people training.
I’ve noticed a distinct change in Thor’s obediance since he started taking the classes. He’s more receptive to good boy/bad boy commands now. And, of course, he’ll do anything for food!
Here’s some video I took of Courtney and Thor doing their agility thing.