Automata — Anything to do with machines that can be wound up and set loose, and which will surely never murder us in our beds, because we’ll long since have been wiped out by some genetically-engineered actual virus set loose by some Script Kiddy.
Microsoft is [obviously] not going out of business any time soon, but it’s gotten to be just too much of a hassle for them to continue to support their PlaysForSure Digital Rights Management scheme that they pushed on device manufacturers and customers for years, before deciding that it wasn’t good enough for their own Zune. […]
I am a long-time fan of P.G. Wodehouse (author of, among many other things, the Jeeves and Wooster stories and novels), for which I have to thank my old friend, Industry Figure Larry Helmerich: I own, I believe, about 50 of his novels or collections of short stories.
I am also a long-time Douglas […]
So the question to be answered was: can a WordPress blog (my blog, in fact), be updated from an iPhone?
And the answer is…yes, and no. I could edit text, and take photos, but I couldn’t upload photos — I had to e-mail the photos from the iPhone to an actual computer, and then post […]
…and here’s some terrific news from Forbes about how Circuit City’s rotten mass firing of experienced (and higher-paid) staff, in favor of untrained teen scum, has totally failed!
The company has floundered after experiencing a devastating third quarter loss, reported last December 21, of $207.3 million, or $1.26 per share, from $20.4 million, or 12 cents […]
The FSJ (fake Steve Jobs) weighs in. The ‘About Me’ section makes me laugh.
I was reading one of my Ruby on Rails texts (Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Ed.), and I came upon something that made me laugh out loud:
(code snippet):
user = self.find_by_name(name)
This code uses a clever little Active Record trick. You see that the first line of the method calls find_by_name. But we don’t define a […]
I'm working on a little Ruby on Rails (RoR) learning project, which is just a flashcard system for practice in learning (human) languages. Nothing too terrible, but complex enough that by the time I’ve implemented my project, I’ll know RoR pretty well.
I have a nice example about why I like Ruby on Rails so […]
So, as an example of just the latest stumbling block in my Ruby on Rails learning project, I wanted to set up my database tables with proper Foreign Key constraints. But I keep seeing signs that the RoR mainline developers just totally don’t bother with this. Signs like: it’s not really supported very […]
As I work through my Ruby on Rails starter projects, I’ve found quite a few helpful resources — so many that I’m beginning to forget where they all are (or soon will, at least).
So I’ve started collecting these resources on a separate page, here: now you can benefit from my diminished mental capacity!
My buddy Chris Ravenscroft says that Apple’s recent ad lampooning Windows Vista’s security exactly captures his Windows Vista experience. True, after 30 minutes, he got kind of disgusted, and threw Vista off a cliff, so maybe that 31st minute would have been outstanding! — we just don’t know.
See the Apple Ad:
Click here, which takes […]