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Why does the Arizona Republic capitalize the words “white” and “black”? | Phxated - http://phxated.com/2009...
I've wondered about this as well. All it seems to do is call more attention to race and make it more of a dividing factor.
- James Britt
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The Death of Cool - http://metrodad.typepad.com/index...
There's something amusing about public declarations of "I'm past caring about cool".
- James Britt
@sleuth I've read 37 books this year (according to my list in Goodreads). Most were borrowed from the library. Should I get a Kindle?
Do you like to own books, or are you OK with essentially renting books from Amazon under vague terms and conditions?
- James Britt
I see that the Glassfish 0.9.6 gem now works correctly with standard config.ru files, Rack middleware, and Ramaze, with no hacks. Nice. I have to update my Rack/Ramaze examples project to the current state of Glassfish gem and warbler (though I think warbler has already been fine for Ramaze). Have to say, though, that *finding* the glassfish gem...
It seems that glassfish gem development happens in a different realm than more typical Ruby development, which is a shame as it makes it harder to grab the attention of Rubyists not already "in the know."
- James Britt
umandroide, Itachi, Yasin Müderrisoğlu and 23 other people liked this
Custom buttons is a go.. Still working on the photos, work in progress. Will need beta testers soon. Sign here.
- Tim Hoeck
first
- Matthew DeVries
Room open at: http://friendfeed.com/andfeed
- Tim Hoeck
Sign me up for the beta. Can't wait to test it out!
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I want in!
- Christopher A Carr
Sign me up too - posting from G1
- David K
I'm so in.
- Aaron D'Souza
count me in....let me know when the beta is
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Sign me up 4 beta testing. :)
- Adrian
I'd like to beta-test it, please!
- Christoph Studer
I'd happily pay for such an app. Fiddy sent would be fine. (Once out of beta)
- Matthew DeVries
Would love to help test =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'd love to beta test this too :-)
- Christian Cable
I so want in. Would love to beta test this app.
- Naomi Williams
Me too!
- Eph Zero
hah! It's in the room! It is considered very Pre-beta.. still broken stuff.. but I want to know If I should continue on this path, or make a drastic change.. http://ff.im/4DGzk
- Tim Hoeck
good stuff!
- Sham Hardy
Hi, I'd like to give AndFeed a try!! Sign me up for beta testing, thanks!
- DvD
Hi Daniel, as soon as I have a new version ready to test, I'll include you.. recently, I've been a bit busy, and haven't been able to work on it.
- Tim Hoeck
I'd love to beta test too! sign me up...
- Dylan Lorimer
+1!
- Tassoman
I know guys, I will get there, I promise! I had to put things on hold for a bit, to move and to finish my ADC project..
- Tim Hoeck
@Tim Ok, of course we understand. I'm anxiously awaiting the beta version for testing.
- Naomi Williams
If not too late, would like to be a tester.
- Tim Rowe
Would love to beta test. :)
- Adrian
Looks amazing. I just need an Android device.
- Zachary TG
@Tim activated my andriod today (HTC Hero) and would _love_ to be able to try out this app. seems you're busy right now - that's cool. just let me know when you have a beta to test and i'd be happy to give you feedback. cheers!
- MikeAmundsen
Yes, I hate that I haven't had time to get back to this.. but I have something a bit bigger planned, we'll see how it pans out... congrats on the phone :)
- Tim Hoeck
@Tim: no problem. now tha FF is kinda on the downslide, i can see that something like this project might need to move to the back burner. the "something bigger" tease is cruel, tho<g>.
- MikeAmundsen
If you're still looking for beta testers, I'd love to give it a whirl.
- James Britt
please count me in!
- milus
yes, please!
- Sean O'Connor
I'm willing to test it - let me know
- Matt Ellsworth
What's the latest on this, anyway?
- Andy Bakun
Yes please.
- Sean O'Connor
if by chance you still need beta testers, I'd like to be counted in. :)
- PaperDoll
If you still need beta-testers, count me in)
- Nina Stawski
So what's the suggested development environment for Android? Eclipse with an Android plugin? Anybody want to point me in the right direction?
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OK, I'm downloading Eclipse Gallileo 64-bit now. I guess I install that, install the Android Development Toolkit (ADT), then see where I go from there.
- Jason Huebel
I downloaded the PDT version, since I also intend to use Eclipse for PHP development. I like to keep all my development under one IDE. All I need for PHP is syntax highlighting anyway. I'm also hoping for decent Git and SVN support within Eclipse.
- Jason Huebel
That's really your only option, unless you want to do all the building and invoking the emulator by hand. It's actually pretty good. I don't use Eclipse much, but it really helped with learning the API.
- Andy Bakun
That's what I thought. I briefly considered seeing if there were any TextMate bundles for ADT, but why add the additional learning curve?
- Jason Huebel
So my first project for Android 2.0 will be a Cisco Type 7 password decryptor. Kinda my version of a Hello World program. :-)
- Jason Huebel
I prefer the command line and vim, and wrote Andi to automate assorted tasks: http://github.com/Neuroga...
- James Britt
Not a vim fan. Emacs either. I'll stick with the typical development environment until I get used to Android development. :-)
- Jason Huebel
Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers - http://sivers.org/zipit
"Once you've told people of your intentions, it gives you a “premature sense of completeness.”"
- Jay McGavren
For some; for others, quite the opposite. http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
- James Britt
Yeah, I had always heard you needed to publicize your plans and publicly commit to deadlines to motivate yourself. Maybe if you omit the deadline part it has the opposite effect. Anyway, I figure it's good to be aware of both sides of the argument.
- Jay McGavren
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The State of XML Parsing in Ruby (Circa 2009) - http://www.engineyard.com/blog...
Ah, rubyxml.com ... I should probably shoot it once and for all.
- James Britt
Limelight - http://limelight.8thlight.com/main...
"Limelight is a rich client GUI framework unlike any other. With a unique angle on GUI development, Limelight harnesses the power to develop a wide range of applications from business tools to games. One Language Unlike many other frameworks, Limelight applications are built using only one language: Ruby. Every aspect, from the screen structure and styling, to control logic and business modeling, is written in Ruby."
- Jay McGavren
One language? No C or Java under the hood? If you can't get to that, and add your own widgets, extend it at will,you're stuck. It's like a mix of Shoes + HTML 3.2.
- James Britt
BTW, with Jimpanzee + Neurogami::SwingSet you can write GUI apps using One Language: Ruby. Not to knock Limelight (too much), but making a point of the "one language" things comes off as a pretty weak argument.
- James Britt
I actually haven't had a chance to look at the API at all - their GUIs just looked slick. If the code is crap then I'm happy for an excuse not to have to learn it.
- Jay McGavren
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I wouldn't say the code is crap, just that you're locked in to the handful of widgets the project owner decides to grant you. Last time I checked, it was on par with HTML 3.2. It's the typical trade-off: making a few things stupid easy means making other things either stupid hard or impossible. I prefer tools that make things doable for reasonably skilled developers. Hand-holding ends up becoming a hand that holds you back.
- James Britt
Hm. I am increasingly being contacted via Facebook instead of email. I wonder what we can infer or conclude from this.
I've had people treat Twitter DM like E-mail when contacting me. It's a good way to reduce the odds of any real communication.
- James Britt
Yet another reason why Kempten rules.: "YouTube - kempten-dance" #kempten #allgäu - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Is there a trick to unicode or UTF-8 hastags?
- James Britt
I found that '#allgäu' works from search result view: http://twitter.com/#search... (searching by another hashtag). Twitter-ish? :-)
- NaHi
from f2p
Odd. I used the Twitter Web site in Firefox to create a post that included #allgäu and the resulting search link was broken when I checked my tweet. But that same tweet, when viewed on the twitter search page, is fine.
- James Britt
Unfortunately I cannot get my Ramaze apps to run on ruby1.9.1 due to severe adapter failure. Rewriting all my website code for Sinatra #ruby
:(
- Michael Fellinger
Adapter failure? How does using Sinatra help?
- James Britt
I cannot get Thin, or Mongrel, or Ebb working with Ramaze under ruby 1.9.1 but Sinatra works. And I have a site which must be live by tomorrow. I'll convert back to Ramaze later if I can get Ramaze to work on 1.9.1
- Clive Crous
Luckly Views and Models remain mostly unchanged ;)
- Clive Crous
Which OS? I had loads of issues trying to work with ramaze using ruby 1.9 while on debian. The issues melted away using arch...
- nickrw
Thirty Conversations on Design - http://thirtyconversationsondesign.com/
" We’ve collected the thoughts of 30 of the world’s most inspired creative professionals. Architects, designers, authors and leaders of iconic brands. We asked them two questions: “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” Their answers might surprise you. But hopefully, they’ll all inspire you. Discover what they have to say. Then share your thoughts. After all, this is a conversation. We’d love for you to join."
- James Britt
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Trying out KDE4. Yikes. It makes even Vista seem well thought out.
Yet KDE3 is soon not to be supported by anyone. Sigh.
- Pistos
I know. :( Linux desktops have the same forced upgrade cycles as Windows and Macs. xmonad is looking more and more attractive.
- James Britt
heard about http://posterous.com/ from @hoosteeno - we are considering using it for @dojo4 - any experiences?
I use posterous for Neurogami. It's easy and good. http://posterous.neurogami.com/
- James Britt
On Twitter, I'm listed as; "Ruby committers", "ruby-committers", "Oya-baka", "programer", "fast_140", "follow", "Rubyist", "Ruby", "Mainly On FriendFeed", "rubyist", "Ruby/Rails_ja", "asakusa.rb" and "japanese".
"japanese" could be a very large list. :)
- James Britt
Quick poll: What should #fast_xs escape? a) [<>&] (ASupp); b) a+["] (current Hpricot); or c) b+['] (JRuby fast_xs). http://pivotallabs.com/users...
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Why would it escape any quote characters?
- James Britt
[#JRUBY-4218] jruby loads src/builtin/generator.rb ahead of any other file named generator - jira.codehaus.org - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse...
This breaks assorted code, such as rawr and roir; anything that expects to do a relative load of a file named "generator"
- James Britt
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Unemployed - http://ericalucci.com/unemplo...
Interesting news. Suggests a lack of foresight from redPear that they cannot find a spot for you. Their loss.
- James Britt
Economic needs in USA are all taken care off, and we have too much money anyway. "Clinton offers U.S. aid to help boost Muslim ties" - http://in.news.yahoo.com/137...
"The programmes Clinton announced on Tuesday include a $76 million project to boost economic opportunities in Yemen, a $30 million project for vulnerable young people in Jordan and an entrepreneurship summit in Washington next year to bring Muslim innovators together with U.S. business leaders." Muslim innovators? WTF has religion to do with innovation? Are they cloning winged horses?
- James Britt
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This is mind boggling. "open -a /Applications/MacVim.app file.txt" Really? All that just to edit a file from the cli? - http://osdir.com/ml...
And the "solution" ends up having other quirks as well. Are there better ways to run Mac Vim from a shell?
- James Britt
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So, thanks to suggestions from @rayniemeir I have an improved solution. Pushed "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/" onto my PATH, and then use a bash function to call MacVim with a shorter name and some noise suppression.
- James Britt
Also, @benatkin suggested I locate and use the mvim script.
- James Britt
now there's another worthless stat for the twitterholics..Number of Lists you are in..I'm in 9. you?
How would you know?
- James Britt
When was the last time you were followed by a real human in Twitter?
Not sure, but I now run a script to semi-automatically block followers, and I may make it fully automatic.
- James Britt
"What Eric is talking about is making mocking easier by treating all IO as streams of input as Observable objects, which are also monads. This way, you're segregating your pure functions from your environment and state, and making it easier and more readable to unit test." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
UI framework changes in Android 1.6 - http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009...
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Interesting. BTW, I ran into a weird issue when using 1.6. I was getting class cast errors in my code when referencing UI items, until I made sure that I referenced them in the same order as they were defined in the layout XML. I've never seen any docs say that the order mattered, though.
- James Britt
What a dickhead. "McCain introduces bill to block FCC's net neutrality rules - Network World" - http://www.networkworld.com/news...
State uses tax dollars to build massive infrastructure; State-sanctioned corporate entries get to use it with artificial protections (thanks to the State). Yet the State cannot now ensure that private businesses do not manipulate traffic over public utilities?
- James Britt
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My "Better Ruby through FP" talk at #strangeloop starts in a few minutes. Need to start writing the slides...
Emphasize immutable state! Scare the crowd.
- James Britt
Hope I did that ;)
- Dean Wampler
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@jamesbritt Hmm...maybe saw some mixed comments..that's why I thought of watching. Did you get a chance to watch?
I was put off by the reviews. Maybe when it comes to the library I'll grab it. But there's much else to watch.
- James Britt
Was trying to download "The Time Travelers Wife" but nobody seems to seed it..Am I on wrong torrent?
Maybe people are doing you a favor ?
- James Britt
Found via HN: http://geocitieslycostripod.com/ Be sure to put on sunglasses first. No, seriously, put them on.
And sweet domain name ...
- James Britt
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