Chad Woolley

"And, on a chilling (for me) twist, if they took stem cells from a woman, they could generate some sperm for her, thereby allowing her to impregnate herself ." "The BBC is carrying a report from a team of researchers at Newcastle University who claim to have developed a the first 'artificial' human sperm from stem cells. The research, reported in the journal Stem Cells and Development, involved selecting meristematic germ cells from a human embryonic stem cell culture and inducing meiosis, thus producing a haploid gamete. The authors claim that the resulting sperm are fully formed, mature, human sperm cells but the announcement has been greeted with mixed reaction from colleagues who claim the procedure is ethically questionable and that the gametes produced are of inferior levels of maturation." - Chad Woolley

Submit ideas for the 2009 Rails Rumble and try to win the championship belt sponsored by thoughtbot. Vote for good ideas. Find teammates. - Chad Woolley

...But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. - Chad Woolley

export DISPLAY :0.0 ssh -Y remote.system.com # in my case a Linux box And any X-Window app I start on the remote system is displayed on my Mac. The -Y tells the other side that this is a Trusted system and can improve performance, which is why I use it instead of -X The ssh -Y (and -X) tunnel the X11 ports to the remote system and establish a DISPLAY environment variable that will redirect any X11 output into the tunnel back to your Mac. And while you are at it, I strongly suggest you read the Mac OS X X11.app preferences with respect to mouse button behavior on the Mac. It will make your life easier if you get to know this information. And it can be even nicer if you have something like USBOverdriveX and customize your mouse buttons for when X11 is the "Focus" app. - Chad Woolley

"Your welcome to come see our system that gets a lot of use." - Chad Woolley

Rip is an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for Ruby. - Chad Woolley

Keybindings that don't make your head hurt - Chad Woolley

Me! All ME! - Chad Woolley

Me! All ME! - Chad Woolley

Visual Search Engine. This is awesome. - Chad Woolley

Simple scripts to install and configure various versions of Ruby from scratch on bare-bones machines. - Chad Woolley

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Vera Fonts. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development (see authors), under a Free license. - Chad Woolley

geminstaller.yml ftw - Chad Woolley

What is Ganglia? Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages widely used technologies such as XML for data representation, XDR for compact, portable data transport, and RRDtool for data storage and visualization. It uses carefully engineered data structures and algorithms to achieve very low per-node overheads and high concurrency. The implementation is robust, has been ported to an extensive set of operating systems and processor architectures, and is currently in use on thousands of clusters around the world. It has been used to link clusters across university campuses and around the world and can scale to handle clusters with 2000 nodes. - Chad Woolley

They're all on IRC. This kept coming up at the conference - teams are on some chat tool like IRC, Skype chat LINK, or Campfire LINK. * Important events are piped into IRC, so you'll be right in the middle of a conversation and an alert will pop in. - Chad Woolley