Tue Jul 12
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#rails-core
06:28 <madrobby> uff. i guess the script.aculo.us stuff is "too cool for google". they threw me out of adsense. :P
06:34 <madrobby> i've written them back, because they accused me of "using software tools to generate clicks". i dunno if the ppl using the site want themselves referred to as "software tools". :/
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Spotted on Anarchaia, this experimental version of the Ruby 1.8.2 interpreter features native threads, a native
Sydney DP1
Spotted on Anarchaia, this experimental version of the Ruby 1.8.2 interpreter features native threads, a native
Binding.of_caller and a GC.on_gc callback. Excellent stuff.
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Call a block repeatedly until an exception is raised
def as_many_times_as_possible loop {yield rescue break} end
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Scott kicks off his latest project with a DHH interview and the latest Rails news. There’s even a mention of Ionist! Do give this a listen.
Ruby on Rails Podcast
Scott kicks off his latest project with a DHH interview and the latest Rails news. There’s even a mention of Ionist! Do give this a listen.
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“ “Words,” he said, “is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiffs-quiddled around.”“That happens to everyone,” Sophie said.
“Not like it happens to me,” the B.F.G. said. “I is speaking the most terrible wigglish.”
“I think you speak beautifully,” Sophie said.
“You do?” cried the B.F.G., suddenly brightening. “You really do?”
“Simply beautifully,” Sophie repeated.
“Well that is the nicest present anyone is every giving me in my whole life!” cried the B.F.G. “Are you sure you is not twiddling my leg?”
“Of course not,” Sophie said. “I just love the way you talk.”
“How wondercrump!” cried the B.F.G., still beaming. “How whoopsy-splunkers. How absolutely squiffling! I is all of a stutter.”
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Roald Dahl, The B.F.G.
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“ Everyting in software changes. The requirements change. The design changes. The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn’t change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes. ”
Kent Beck