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Raucous street music with yummy Panjabi rhythms. - Nick Sieger

Open Core, if you’re not aware, is being pushed by many start up companies as a new approach to delivering products combining open source and proprietary software. There may be others nodding in agreement that this in fact a dazzling new business model. Regardless of the way that vendor struts, you should trust your instincts. You’ll soon realize that the fabric making up the garb of their stated innovation is a fabrication. They’ll then be exposed for exactly who they are – a good old fashion software vendor. Just like every other one you’ve come to know. - Nick Sieger

We accidentally implemented our entire beta product in one week, with zero prior Ruby or Rails experience. - Nick Sieger

ØMQ looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry whole messages across various transports like inproc, IPC, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fanout, pubsub, task distribution, and request-reply. It's fast and small enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has over twenty language APIs and runs on most operating systems. ØMQ is open source and fully supported by iMatix. - Nick Sieger

Our neighborhood wine guy! We love his approach to affordable, curated wine choices. - Nick Sieger

In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now - Nick Sieger

In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now - Nick Sieger

Wanted to plug a URL in and have it un-suck-ify the page for me. Almost but not quite. - Nick Sieger

Congrats Francis! - Nick Sieger

Sounds eerily like the background story in the book The Namesake. Does this sort of thing happen in India all the time? - Nick Sieger

Lately on the #code4lib IRC channel, several of us have been knocking around different versions (in several programming languages) of programs to read in a ginormous file and do some processing on each line. I noted some speedups related to multi-threading, and someone (maybe rsinger?) said, basically, that to bother with threading for a one-off simple program was a waste. Well, it turns out I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with threading in jruby anyway. And I think I have a pretty elegant solution — a generic “threaded each” I’m calling threach. - Nick Sieger

Lately on the #code4lib IRC channel, several of us have been knocking around different versions (in several programming languages) of programs to read in a ginormous file and do some processing on each line. I noted some speedups related to multi-threading, and someone (maybe rsinger?) said, basically, that to bother with threading for a one-off simple program was a waste. Well, it turns out I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with threading in jruby anyway. And I think I have a pretty elegant solution — a generic “threaded each” I’m calling threach. - Nick Sieger

My own experience shows the same. - Nick Sieger

Ruby always holds the reference to a class as well as self. But there is no way to retrieve it directly. It is more implicit than self. If you define a method without giving an explicit receiver, in other words, if you define a method with the normal method definition syntax, the default definee will have the method as an instance method. - Nick Sieger

Ruby always holds the reference to a class as well as self. But there is no way to retrieve it directly. It is more implicit than self. If you define a method without giving an explicit receiver, in other words, if you define a method with the normal method definition syntax, the default definee will have the method as an instance method. - Nick Sieger

Apparently still not working: http://code.google.com/p... - Nick Sieger

Just an update for record. Now it should run on GAE/J. Test site: http://jruby-pki.appspot.com/ Source: http://github.com/nahi... - NaHi from m.ctor.org

In this article we’ll quickly walk-through the process of creating a CSS3 animation of an AT-AT Walker from The Empire Strikes Back. We’ll start off by reviewing some CSS3 properties that made this animation possible. Then, follow up with a list of the sections required to construct the AT-AT and the CSS3 code to move each section. I wont go too deep into the explanations of CSS3. There are various resources online to get you up to speed with CSS3. - Nick Sieger

In this article we’ll quickly walk-through the process of creating a CSS3 animation of an AT-AT Walker from The Empire Strikes Back. We’ll start off by reviewing some CSS3 properties that made this animation possible. Then, follow up with a list of the sections required to construct the AT-AT and the CSS3 code to move each section. I wont go too deep into the explanations of CSS3. There are various resources online to get you up to speed with CSS3. - Nick Sieger

Use bcrypt. - Nick Sieger

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/ - Nick Sieger

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/ - Nick Sieger

Throughout the last year or so we’ve had the pleasure of creating and sharing a series of extremely popular Lightroom Presets via the X=Blog. - Nick Sieger

Throughout the last year or so we’ve had the pleasure of creating and sharing a series of extremely popular Lightroom Presets via the X=Blog. - Nick Sieger

Will be avoiding PayPal from now on if at all possible. Looking for a good alternative way to send money. - Nick Sieger

Yeti is ML style functional programming language, that runs on the JVM. - Nick Sieger

Yeti is ML style functional programming language, that runs on the JVM. - Nick Sieger

LLJVM provides a set of tools and libraries for running comparatively low level languages (such as C) on the JVM. - Nick Sieger

LLJVM provides a set of tools and libraries for running comparatively low level languages (such as C) on the JVM. - Nick Sieger

So you want to build the latest Ruby on Windows. Maybe, you’re working on some new RubySpec tests or would like to see what’s coming with Ruby 1.9.2. At any rate, building Ruby on Windows is much easier than I originally thought, and you don’t even forced to install Microsoft compilers at al - Nick Sieger

So you want to build the latest Ruby on Windows. Maybe, you’re working on some new RubySpec tests or would like to see what’s coming with Ruby 1.9.2. At any rate, building Ruby on Windows is much easier than I originally thought, and you don’t even forced to install Microsoft compilers at al - Nick Sieger