November 2009
15 posts
Please Donate to Help a Friend
Josh, a very close, long-time friend of mine was in a serious lawnmower accident the day before Thanksgiving (11/25/2009).
As a result of the accident, he suffered very severe damage to his primary hand including the loss of several fingers.
Josh and his wife have two young daughters and could use any help possible during his recovery.
All donations will go directly to Josh and his family...
Chalk One Up for the Web →
via chrisbowler:
Amidst all the discussion about native vs. the web, Neven Mrgan shows what can be done with a web app.
Nice webapp from Neven Mrgan
Watchjared:
Neil Young sings The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Developers only now realizing that Android is not... →
Another sad but true knock on Android
“…despite the attention given to objects, messaging is the most important...”
– Smalltalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
cashto's blog : It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests →
(via Instapaper)
Android is an abomination →
somewhat disappointing as I had (and still have) high hopes for Androids potential.
It's the Bible, not the bible
Personally, I HATE it when people don’t capitalize the word Bible on purpose.
Most often it happens because someone doesn’t agree with the Bible and as such, to prove their point, they don’t capitalize the word Bible and instead write it as “bible.”
This is clearly done on purpose to show disdain and demean the Bible. The fact remains, however, that the Bible is...
ruby -rubygems
dstrelau:
You know, I’ve always wondered why requiring a library on the command line is ruby -r library but you can require rubygems with ruby -rubygems. Here’s why:
[rubygems-1.3.5] cat lib/ubygems.rb
# This file allows for the running of rubygems with a nice
# command line look-and-feel: ruby -rubygems foo.rb
#--
# Copyright 2006 by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim Weirich and others.
# All...