21 Jun 2012

Rails test coverage: sometimes 100% is just right

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DHH, the éminence grise of the Ruby on Rails world, took a swipe at the test-first cult with his provocative article " Testing like t...
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20 Jun 2012

Sympathy for the trolls: do everyone a favour and walk away from fights online

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Everybody's been a troll at one point or another. Sometimes we know when we're trolling, but mostly we're just having a bad day ...
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13 Jun 2012

Rails i18n translations in Yaml: translation tool support

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With Rails 2.2 the  i18n API  was introduced with a new method for translations.  Instead of embracing the venerable gettext  which had been...
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6 Jun 2012

Job satisfaction: the passionate dermatologist, the chair, and the metal hook

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As a teenager I had terrible skin.  It was just average-bad until I was nineteen, at which point it went absolutely Vesuvian, requiring Ac...
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27 Apr 2012

An elegy for sweet forgetfulness, soon to be lost forever

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In my memory, I'm standing on the Île Saint-Louis , looking at a butcher shop. But was I ever there? I've provably been in Paris....
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17 Apr 2012

Homogeneous web development: Meteor, Derby, Firebase and the portents of doom

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A variety of new web frameworks are being cooked up that allow you to write one set of seamless code for the client and server.  It's ...
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11 Apr 2012

Taste matters: why I should have known better than to use GoDaddy

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Years ago I registered several domain names.  They were a lot cheaper then, and because I didn't want to think about which registrar to ...
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28 Mar 2012

Second, Third, and Fourth-Order Effects of Social Marketing and Mass Securitization

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Several years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg crowed that he was able to use the database to retroactively predict with 33% accuracy ...
26 Nov 2011

Bankers cautious on Eurozone breakup

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While some banks are calling for contingency plans in the case of the breakup of the Eurozone, a large majority of investment banks, hedge ...
8 Nov 2011

AGPL revisited: how MongoDB licensing differs from MySQL

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Now that the Affero General Public License (AGPL3) is actually being used by successful projects, I'm looking at it again. Specifically...