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Choose Your Own Adventure - http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/
As a child of the 80s, the Choose Your Own Adventure books were a fixture of my rainy afternoons. My elementary school library kept a low, fairly unmaintained-looking shelf of them hidden in one of its back corners. Whether this non-marquee placement was an attempt by the librarians to deemphasize the books in favor of ‘serious’ (children’s) literature or was simply my good luck I still haven’t worked out. But it meant there was a place that I could retreat to and dive into unfamiliar worlds without distraction.
- Nick Sieger
Are Google employees being discouraged from using Python for new projects? - http://groups.google.com/group...
Mathea at Lake Hattiet - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Performant RDBMS requires use of stored-procedures? I've got good money that Stonebraker has never done web dev. http://cacm.acm.org/blogs...
Pushed out a new hpricot release, 0.8.2. Enjoy. http://blog.nicksieger.com/article...
@jamesbritt I think that's the crux of my question. According to Sam Ruby, the original author of xchar.rb that's behind ASupp, they aren't.
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
@luislavena No, and why didn't I think to look at those before! Thank you.
OMG do you have to shave a dozen yaks to get a suitable MinGW build environment on Windows just to build Ruby. Horrible, horrible.
I'd be avoiding the windows stuff with JRuby if I could, but I'm now a co-maintainer of Hpricot and am about to push out a new release.
So sorry to hear Frank! Hope you find something even more engaging. RT @fwierzbicki: Leaving Sun :( http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2009...
Project Guest VM - http://research.sun.com/project...
We define a Java guest to be an implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that runs directly on the hypervisor para-virtualization API, i.e., without the traditional operating system layer. Many commercial environments today run application suites that are entirely implemented in Java, or in languages that compile to Java bytecode. Many of the other non-Java processes are related to network management that could be abstracted into the guest or a sibling OS. There are opportunities for both simplification and performance improvement in a guest that is tailored to a Java-centric application mix
- Nick Sieger
Voted. You should vote too, chances are the lines are as short at your local polling place as they were at mine.
Back from saying goodbye to "Unkie" Jeff. Didn't realize how much I looked up to him. Already miss him so much.
Arrived in BOS. Thinking of a diversion to the North End for pizza and pastries before heading to Maine.
BigRecord - http://www.bigrecord.org/
Distributed computing is messy. Nodes go out of sync, data gets lost. There is no mature distributed database option. HBase, Hypertable, Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, Voldemort… They all have sharp edges. You are going to get cut and you are going to bleed. It takes about 12 hours to upload our database to EC2. But our data is growing. Soon we’ll have to actually ship hard drives to Seattle: http://aws.amazon.com/importe.... On that up-beat note, Ruby coders, you are finally invited to start playing with BigRecord, your window to the world of Bigtable-esque data. Which, for now, means HBase. Click here to get started.
- Nick Sieger
Ok, so the report of Object#returning's of demise was premature: http://github.com/rails.... Seems I may have hit a lazy-load or load order bug.
Remember when Object#returning was cool? http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006... aww yyyeahh. Time to excise all usages now - it's gone in Rails 3.
Finally cleaned out my inboxes after a couple of yucky weeks letting stuff piling up.
Put out a sneaky 0.9.0.1 release of ar-jdbc today for those of you who want an upgrade path to JRuby 1.4+ but are having issues w/ 0.9.2.
zfs-macos | Google Groups - https://groups.google.com/group...
Welcome to the ZFS MacOS refugee camp. Our mission here is to keep ZFS working on our macs. We fear no data loss. We see no storage limits. To get started, grab the latest package and check out the getting started page. To file bugs or get into development, check out the google code project.
- Nick Sieger
@jeffreydamick Good question. I'll do some investigation on it if you suggest a real-life example. Deal?
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