A newbie's view of Ruby on Rails (2009/01/18)
I’m doing a project, and I think I’m going to try to do it in Rails.
[read more...]Writing good change log messages (2009/01/17)
Ever wonder what that idiot was thinking when he checked in a change that completely broke a piece of software, typically right before a deadline? Ever wonder if anyone’s thinking that about you?
[read more...]Circuit City liquidating... (2009/01/16)
Well, it’s not every day you hear about 30,000 people losing their jobs all at once.
[read more...]Trivia point about external RAID on OS X. (2009/01/13)
This may be of more interest to Mac sysadmins than to the rest of my readers, but it was really, really, really interesting to me, in that kind of “OMG did we just lose everything” way that software so often is.
[read more...]Read these books. (2009/01/11)
Here’s two books that you should read, even though you may have never heard of them.
[read more...]What's this, a new blog? (2009/01/04)
To make a long story short, I’ve long sort of hated Movable Type. This isn’t all their fault; I figured it would be fine to just use the file-based database scheme, and maybe it’d work well normally for a small, low-traffic blog…
[read more...]GameStop: We don't like your email address (2008/11/04)
So, a while back, I placed a pre-order at Gamestop for the Wrath of the Lich King Collector’s Edition.
[read more...]WoW, zombie armies, and me. (2008/10/23)
World of Warcraft remains one of my favorite leisure-time activities. This evening, I decided to go hang out with some friends online, and play World of Warcraft.
[read more...]Spore reviews: Not fake (2008/09/09)
As of this writing, Will Wright’s latest game, Spore, has about 1700 reviews on Amazon. 1600 of them are one-star reviews, mostly citing the horrible “DRM” system in use. Many critics allege that these are unreasonable reviews, and do not accurately reflect anything. These reviews are not fake, inaccurate, or unfair. Sony’s “SecuROM” copy protection is an absolute disaster.
[read more...]Apache on OS X: Case sensitivity (2008/08/21)
Many Apache users use .htaccess files to control access to files. Of course, sometimes only some files are password protected:
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