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Thu Jul 02 19:30:08 PDT 2009
I've been working on a Ruby database driver for Ingres. Most of the work has been in C, but I finally have my Ruby code (via C) fetching data from the database.
Now I'm starting on the Ruby on Rails portion. It involves adding a lot of additional calls that I didn't have in place. It's actually a pretty big test suite
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Thu Jul 02 19:30:05 PDT 2009
Color me shocked, but IBM has just rolled out
a cloud computing offering. For the short year
that I worked at IBM I argued many times for IBM to enter
SaaS, but to no avail, so it's great to see them finally
entering the field. Now this is IBM
and those bureaucratic genes run deep, so don't expect to
just whip
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abbyjess
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Thu Jul 02 14:41:41 PDT 2009
[durham|holidays|durham county|babies and toddlers|abby]
Even if you aren't heading to the beach for the holiday weekend, there is still plenty of fun happening right here in the Triangle. Here in Durham you even have parade options for the younger set.Your first option is to participate in a 60 year running parade of children over in the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood.
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minter
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Wed Jul 01 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
The @tweetdeck “sync” feature is full of #fail - not syncing columns to my iPhone, & everything on the desktop keeps showing up as unread. #
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Wed Jul 01 19:30:08 PDT 2009
One my college buddies, Eric Star is at Evoca, a very cool startup. I'm not going to try to tell you everything they do... I'll just say that they let you post audio "blogs" and make them searchable. There are free accounts and professional level accounts as well.
Here's an article about them over at TechCrunch.
Eric
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Wed Jul 01 19:30:05 PDT 2009
An upfront disclaimer, I work for Google. I am not involved in Wave in any way
and all of the things I discuss below are based on external documentation.
Before getting into the specifics of the issues I found, I want to point out
that I'm very excited by Wave, I believe it has
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roller
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Wed Jul 01 08:35:26 PDT 2009
[general]
IBM Rational has just released a 64-page book on Collaborative Application Life-cycle Management (C/ALM) that explains in detail how Rational's Jazz-based tools fit together to support the full software development and delivery life-cycle.
You can get the book at InfoQ. Registration is required (and free):
Scaling
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Susie budziszewski
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Wed Jul 01 03:00:00 PDT 2009
[durham|shopping|durham county|parenting]
My typical method for coping with being home with children
all summer is to simply not be home.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a homebody at heart but I find that keeping us
all out of the house as much as possible is best for everyone’s mood. Out in the world, either at the museum,
pool or the river, I find
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minter
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Tue Jun 30 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
Silicon Florist thinks that TeamSnaps deserves more respect. http://bit.ly/17n7e8 #
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Tue Jun 30 20:07:02 PDT 2009
[silverlight]
If you’re interested in Silverlight 3 and building business applications you’re not
going to want to miss this excellent free Silverlight training opportunity!
Join us at Advanced Home Care on Tuesday, 7th July, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. (Dinner
& Meet & Greet: 6-6:45 p.m.)
Directions link: (4001
Piedmont Parkway,
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Tue Jun 30 19:30:08 PDT 2009
I finally got myself a MacBook Pro. This is the first Mac I've every owned or spent any serious time on, so I guess I'm what the Mac folk call a "switcher". Given that I've spent a lot of time on Windows and Linux boxes, I thought my impressions might be of interest to others thinking about this new Intel Mac
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Tue Jun 30 19:30:05 PDT 2009
We got a gift in the mail of some Kansas City Steaks. The
kids' reaction was "We got dry ice!"
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Susan
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Tue Jun 30 00:57:00 PDT 2009
Several folks are organizing a dramatic reading/recording of this awesome Eric Frank Russell story: http://www.abelard.org/e-f-russell.php Participation will be by a mix of 'phone and live (still pondering the details; I'm afraid this will be another one of those tedious 'learning experiences':)Since I
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minter
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Mon Jun 29 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
@NickLongo Welcome! in reply to NickLongo #
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Mon Jun 29 19:30:08 PDT 2009
A short article I wrote entitled The Cornerstone of a Great Shop was published in the spring edition of Methods and Tools. It's a great online only magazine, available via PDF or HTML.
Jared
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Mon Jun 29 19:30:05 PDT 2009
It's been a while since the URI Template draft has been updated, and in the interim
there has been some implementation experience:
http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/08/rest-in-spring-3-mvc/
http://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/wiki/Implementations
In the intervening months two things have
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roller
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Mon Jun 29 18:54:59 PDT 2009
[barcamprdu|general|triangle]
BarCampRDU 2009 is rapidly approaching (August 8, 2009) and the event is sold out with 250 registered attendees. Problem is, we're only about halfway to our funding goal. I guess it could be the economy or maybe it's event overload; doesn't it seem like we had a heckuva lot of tweetup-camp-athons around here
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Cyndi
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Mon Jun 29 13:44:42 PDT 2009
[raleigh|food and drink|cyndi]
The following essay was my entry for the Edy's Slow Churned Neighborhood Salute.
I'm so excited to be a grand prize winner, which means I'm one of 1,500
people across the country who get to throw an ice cream party for their
neighbors courtesy of Edy's. Hooray for free ice cream!In
August 2003, my
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minter
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Sun Jun 28 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
Discovering that all the migration scripts from UW/mbox to Cyrus were written before 2002. #
@mshuler That looks good, but it goes to the Maildir format, not Cyrus. :-/ in reply to mshuler #
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Sun Jun 28 19:30:08 PDT 2009
A project that I've been working on has involved calling C code from Ruby code. It was much easier to do than I anticipated and I thought others might find it interesting.
Why would you do this? Suppose you have a bit of Ruby code that's too slow in a key portion of your program? You can easily move that bit of code
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Sun Jun 28 19:30:05 PDT 2009
The video for my design patterns talk at PyCon 2009 has been posted:
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Paul
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Sun Jun 28 19:13:18 PDT 2009
[general]
We were over on the hill behind us called Southern Village eating the great food we’d picked up at the Carrboro Taco Truck (the one near Fitch’s) — great home made tamales pollo con salsa verde since you asked — and listening to the Ramblers or Watson, Hicks Carver and Newberry if you prefer
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Paul
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Sun Jun 28 13:14:36 PDT 2009
[general]
I was in Charlotte yesterday to attend a memorial service for the father of an old friend when I ran into a whimsical statue of another old acquaintance. Hugh McManaway used to direct traffic from the median of Queens Road at Providence Road across from his church, the place where he used to eat (once the Town House
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Sat Jun 27 19:30:08 PDT 2009
In a meeting today AJAX was mentioned and several people asked what it was, so I thought I'd pass on a just a little bit about AJAX.
AJAX just means that the web page you are hitting is getting updated without reloading the entire page. Think about most web sites. If you click on a link, or a tab, or anything, the
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Sat Jun 27 19:30:05 PDT 2009
The impetus for this post in part comes from a conversation
I had at PyCon. A developer had admitted that in
the past he had served up a high-traffic web page that was the same
for every visitor, but then used a bit of Javascript to pull up
the users information separately to customize the page, but he
felt
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Fri Jun 26 19:30:08 PDT 2009
I saw a great post on Ed Burnette's ZD Net blog about developing
software The Eclipse Way. It had some great quotes and the ideas can be applied nearly anywhere. It's not Eclipse specific
by any means. It's about developing good software.
Some of the good quotes:
Project health is stronger than saying "quality".
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minter
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Thu Jun 25 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
@rjamestaylor Sorry to hear about that. in reply to rjamestaylor #
I got to interview @kr8tr about building43 and The Rackspace Cloud today on the Rackspace radio station. Awesome all around. #
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Thu Jun 25 19:30:08 PDT 2009
I was so tired the week that I wrote My Long Week that I left off the best story. I wouldn't have even remembered it but I told it to someone at work and he reminded me.
Again, as with the original story, if you disgust easy, don't read this one. If you want a hint, just look at the Google Adsense ads I have on the
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Thu Jun 25 17:03:43 PDT 2009
15:08 @tbeckett just saw Amanda H here at Ipas!! #Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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Paul
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Thu Jun 25 08:36:39 PDT 2009
[general]
Did quite a bit of talking with Vadim Lavrusik for a fairly long article on “10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media” in Mashable which also features Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Sree Sreenivasan, and a couple of others. Very good company and some very good ideas for teaching.
More locally, The
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minter
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Wed Jun 24 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
@JordanRinke Well, on Friday night, come out to ComedySportz! http://cszsa.com/ </plug> in reply to JordanRinke #
@jonpyle Hilarious! in reply to jonpyle #
Sampling the wares at our team salsa taste-off. Man, I love @rackspace. #
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Wed Jun 24 19:30:08 PDT 2009
Over the last two weekends I've been at conferences in St. Louis and Boston. (I've got to get another hobby!) At both locations I was involved with the Birds of a Feather session for architecture.
I found it very interesting that in both cities, SOA and it's usage was discussed. Teams using SOA technologies (like Web
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Cyndi
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Wed Jun 24 17:36:40 PDT 2009
[raleigh|cyndi|nature]
I'm not sure at what point in a person's career path one decides to become a tree removal specialist. Does your guidance counselor suggest that your propensity for strapping spikes to your boots could be useful for climbing trees? Or do you just feel that being suspended in the air with a chain saw tied to your
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minter
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Tue Jun 23 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
@wxcampbell Welcome to The Rack! in reply to wxcampbell #
@funnytshirts I think he hangs out with that rapper “Akron”. in reply to funnytshirts #
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Tue Jun 23 19:30:08 PDT 2009
Last week was a Long Week... and the story is pretty funny, so I thought I'd share it. However, be forewarned... this story is not for those with a weak stomach. :)
Last weekend I was in St. Louis on my first NFJS conference of the year. I called my wife Sunday morning to say good morning and she was in tears. She had
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minter
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Mon Jun 22 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
@armmer That’s a handy command! in reply to armmer #
@rjamestaylor Good call - @the_jamie rocks. in reply to rjamestaylor #
First time having dinner at the “Magic Time Machine” with the girls. Hilarious! #
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Mon Jun 22 19:30:08 PDT 2009
Ted Neward's blog has an interesting entry on evaluating a language based on the number of keystrokes (not even lines) that it takes you to express a concept. This should, naturally, lead to a more productive team, since more of the details are wrapped up the well-tested language libraries, not code that you've
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Sun Jun 21 19:30:08 PDT 2009
Lecando's Haven product is a continuous integration and continuous testing system; it runs your tests in parallel across many different machines. This looks great for anyone who wants commercial support for their continuous integration systems as well as massively parallel testing. It looks like a great idea, and like
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minter
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Sat Jun 20 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
@kgool If you figure it out, let me know. in reply to kgool #
@pop_icon I’ve got some gum for you next time I see you - remind me. in reply to pop_icon #
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Sat Jun 20 19:30:08 PDT 2009
Not only is it still alive, it's getting better! For those of you wanting to run Rails in a Java runtime, do not despair. Charles Nutter posted today with a JRuby Progress Updates: JRuby on Rails, IRB, and the Future.
It's a great read on several different levels. If you are porting any of the scripting languages to
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shertaugh
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Sat Jun 20 08:17:54 PDT 2009
A few days back, a federal grand jury indicted three tax attorneys, an accountant, and two bankers for tax-fraud conspiracy arising out of their advice about various tax shelters. I suspect their defense will be that they acted in "good faith" based on the available legal precedents -- which will be a matter for the
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minter
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Fri Jun 19 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[twitter|general]
That “health care reform” plans refuse to look at single-payer plans means that what comes out will be just as crappy as what we have now. #
@Lascurettes Texas? Wait, that doesn’t work. in reply to Lascurettes #
@Racker121 Ric Flair? Because to be the man, you gotta beat the man. WOOOOO! in reply
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Fri Jun 19 19:30:08 PDT 2009
If you haven't seen it, Amazon Connect is a new feature on Amazon that just recently went live. It's author's blogs hosted on the Amazon book page. It's a pretty neat idea, but I doubt that most of the people who are reading this would need to visit the Amazon page to track me down. :)
On the other hand, there are a
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Thu Jun 18 19:30:08 PDT 2009
Courtesy of Digg.com, here's a tutorial on Apple's Developer Connection titled Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X.
This Rails thing is getting more and more mainstream every day! ;) I think it might make it.
Enjoy!
Jared
btw, it seems that Mike Clark is the author.
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Ilina Ewen
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Thu Jun 18 03:00:00 PDT 2009
[politics|raleigh|wake county|parenting|ilina]
As a Rule...I don't get my haircut at places where all the stylists are wearing Crocs.I don't let anyone who looks like she's wearing make up give me a makeover at the Bobbi Brown counter. I never dated a guy whose butt was smaller than mine.I eat dessert every night (after the boys go to bed!).I don't
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