August 2007
6 posts
Ambition →
Promising looking query library that walks the parse tree to convert Ruby into SQL e.g. User.select { |m| m.name == ‘jon’ && m.age == 21 } # => “SELECT * FROM users WHERE (users.`name` = ‘jon’ AND users.`age` = 21)”
Process, People, and Pods: Keystrokes are NOT Gold →
Why a good developer should be happy to “throw it away and start over”.
Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon... →
Full account of the search for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray who disappeared at sea.
All Things Distributed: The Amazon Flexible... →
It’s cool that the fees more accurately reflect actual costs of different payment methods and that you can aggregate micro-payments into a single transaction.
InfoQ: Applying Agile to Ruby (Video) →
Useful comparison between TDD with Java & Ruby. I agree with his assessment that some XP practices like pair programming become even more important when using Ruby. Bit of a giveaway that he didn’t know what was Ruby equivalent of JavaDoc.
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission... →
Try enforcing that law…