Dead Programmer Society

Apparently the Merb team was not yet satisfied with just having created a better Rails than Rails itself.

Lately, I have had a chance to get seriously into Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

Amazon’s S3 storage service is a really cool way to store and serve up massive quantities of data.

I read with great excitement that Engine Yard, my favorite of the Ruby-centric hosting companies, was taking in a round of $3.5 million from Benchmark Capital.

I keep thinking about Zed Shaw’s vitriolic (and newly updated) posting, and one particular aspect about it that seems to bother me.

Zed Shaw has always been a rather curmudgeonly figure.

I got a little excited when I read of the team assembled right now working on Rubinius up at Engine Yard in San Francisco.

Software usability has really benefited from the latest and greatest digital technology for eye tracking.

I had read with mild amusement the minor dustup over the craze of Werewolf players at RubyConf 2007.

As day 3 of RubyConf 2007 began, the breakfast buffet had to remind us of its presence.

As the sun rose over the hills of North Carolina, the quiet betrayed a seething fire blazing in the hearts of three development teams.

Jim Weirich is a very smart guy.

I remember Marcel Molina from the first RailsConf, when the Rails core team was introduced to the audience.

Where RailsConf is growing to become a spectacle, RubyConf still has that special, small feeling of sharing.

As followers of this blog know, I am very interested in the Ruby language itself, not just web development.

Last night was the always entertaining Los Angeles Application Developer Meetup.

The medium of video is better than ever, thanks to YouTube.

Is your database getting old and tired?

I was wading thru my daily ration of VC blogs just now, when something caught my eye.

Yet more wisdom about user experience and interface design from the Signal Vs.

Really cool article here from of all places NASA (go figure) courtesy of the Signal Vs.

I enjoyed reading Phil Haack’s little “you’re either with us or against us” diatribe from earlier today, where he rails against non-test-driven development.

Earlier today, I read with great interest the potentially inflammatory post where Ola Bini proclaims the Ruby VM wars already over, and basically divides the Ruby VM empire into two halves, with the center controlled by Rome, err, I mean Rubinius primitiv…

I just registered for RubyConf 2007, which will be held Nov. 2-4 in Charlotte, NC.

Did you ever want to present information in a visual format, but didn’t know which one was most appropriate?

As usual, human ingenuity has raised science to a new height.

Last Tuesday night was July’s Los Angeles Web Application Developer Meetup.

Apparently, the altitude in orbit is not high enough for more than one of NASA’s finest.

John Lam and company have finally gotten something together to release to the world at large for their IronRuby project.

I have never been a big checkers fan.

I have been really, really busy lately, which is why I have not had a chance to post anything.

I spent a bit of time this morning getting CruiseControl.rb and RCov working together for a new client’s fairly LARGE Ruby on Rails (70+ models, 40+ controllers) project.

Last night, I gave a short presentation on Ezra Z’s cool Ruby web development framework Merb at the Los Angeles Web Developer Meetup.

I was shocked to read about the ongoing problems with the life support computers onboard the International Space Station.

“The more you tighten your grip…the more star systems will slip through your fingers…” - Princess Leia

Last night, I got home a bit late.

Martin Fowler just posted on his bliki a little piece entitled RubyMicrosoft.

I have reading a bit lately about “rockstar” programmers.

By the time we got to RailsConf Day 3, only the most hard core remained.

After the incredible energy of RailsConf Day 1, Day 2 seemed to slow down the pace a little bit.

I was primed and ready for RailsConf 2007 Day 1.

Well, I had just got back to my room after day 0 of RailsConf 2007, which was the tutorial sessions before the main conference began.

I am packing my stuff for RailsConf 2007, and I am pretty excited.

The upcoming RailsConf 2007 is not the only revolutionary conference that is going on this week.

I have been enjoying some real world fun with my wife and son on the north shore of Hawaii the last few days, and so I have not had time or inclination to post anything.

Jeff Atwood at the Coding Horror blog links to a great introduction to Bayes' Theorem.

I have been busy the last few nights incorporating the brilliant Rails plugin called attachment_fu from Rick Olson aka technoweenie.

Kevin Barnes over at Code Craft has a cool posting comparing software development to gardening.

Today, Microsoft announced their Silverlight technology platform.

The last week or so I have been very busy playing with and setting up my new MacBook Pro.