Posted by Andrew
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:07:00 GMT
It is indeed a pleasure to support John, Sean and the rest of of the team of committers to Radiant by hosting their site. For those who don’t know, Radiant is the fast and elegant CMS built with Ruby on Rails, which is used by the Ruby site itself.
You can read John’s announcment here.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, AVLUX | Tags hosting, radiant, rubyonrails | 2 comments
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:12:00 GMT
AVLUX today announced that it is now providing free accounts for the wonderfully simple web-based email management program, MAILROOM.
Posted in Tech Talk, AVLUX | Tags avlux, email | 3 comments
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:52:00 GMT
from xkcd.com
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags humor, lisp | 1 comment
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 14 May 2007 21:38:00 GMT
Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags humor, java, rubyonrails | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 14 May 2007 20:47:00 GMT
Viktor Wooten.
Axe me no more questions…
Posted in 127.0.0.1 | Tags art, music | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:00 GMT
NOTE: if the embedded movie below does not function due to political correctness or some other reason, you can download it here.
The following is part 1 of 8 on youtube. Go there to watch parts 2-7.
Consider also this lecture given by Michael Crichton on Janaury 17, 2003 at the California Institute of Technology.
Aliens Cause Global Warming
My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today.
Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy.
Read more...
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags globalwarming, politics, science | 1 comment
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:32:00 GMT
Infoworld reports that Microsoft is “very interested” in Ruby. Is this like the proverbial knock on the door, where the man says “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help?” Maybe. Is this a good boost for Ruby or the beginning of an “embrace and extend” attack? I can’t imagine that MS is very happy about the popularity of Rails: open-source, cross platform, unixy. I know the Rails team isn’t exactly friendly toward Windows. The core team is 100% Mac and DHH has said that he would be suspect of any applicants who used Windows as their development platform.
In any event there is now a decent Rails IDE plugin for Visual Studio, Ruby in Steel Developer . But, if you are really serious about developing in Rails, get a Mac and use TextMate.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Tech Talk | Tags IDEs, microsoft, rubyonrails | no comments
