Assuming you already know Ruby, MVC, databases, and Web stuff and just need to learn Rails, thumbs up for http://railsforzombies.org/
Learning #Rails and observing how much it encourages #ROT instead of #REST. http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/61/What%20We%20Need%20is%20More%20REST%20and%20Less%20ROT%20Presentation.pdf
“Smells like a Steven Spielberg movie in here.”
I’m interested in how long it will take for 50% of phones to be /used/ as smartphones. http://www.asymco.com/2013/01/04/when-will-smartphones-reach-saturation/ I’m thinking at least 5 more years. /cc @asymco
The version of ftplugin/ruby.vim in #Vim itself is from almost 3 years ago and completely borks the value of the «path» option due its use of a no-longer-supported feature of gems. If you use Vim and #Ruby, you really need to get current http://j.mp/TBmPI3
Create smart-playlist “last-played is not in the last 12 months” and put on shuffle. Instant “OMFSM, I completely forgot they ever did this” and “Where the hell did I first hear this?” and “Why don’t I listen to this more often?” and “Whaaaa‽‽‽”.
«ack -l —text ‘[ \t]+$’ | xargs perl -pi -e ‘s/[ \t]+$//’»
#stopthetwitching
Having grown up with both parents working for Ma Bell, this is, um, wow. http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/internet/the-end-of-the-public-phone-network
Not a fan of imagery for @themagazine cover. Plain text is what set it apart before. Keep it simple. #lessismore
The best way to listen to @NPR is definitely by apps and podcast. Thankfully, @WBEZ has their High Fidelity program to allow paying to keep this sort of thing going. #sustainability #payforwhatyouuse
BTW, you don’t need to use the #AmazonMP3 installer. You can get at the app via “Show Package Contents”.
Special editions of The Lord of The Rings movies were extra long to add all the bits that they had to leave out from the books.
Special edition of The Hobbit trilogy is going to be a single DVD where they cut all the extra stuff out.
Grooving and feeling my bathroom. Join in the musical awesomeness: http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/08/365-Days-Project-08-20-american-standards-my-bathroom-is-a-private-kind-of-place-1969.mp3
Just heard a “those wacky foreigners” story on #NPR. Make me wonder what “those wacky Americans” stories are being reported elsewhere.
The first two days of “uncrowding” on @ctabrown does not seem to have done much.
#Chrome is “sensible-browser”?! I think not. #ubuntu
Tired of the having to use line continuations in #Ruby. Gimme mandatory semicolons.
Actually it makes sense that the nulls can’t make it through the *nix environment.
Tried #zsh. It keeps the nulls in the internal version of the variable, but results in the same thing being passed to child processes.
#bash internals question: What happens with «export FOO=$‘blah\0blah\0blah’»? Does the variable hold four bytes or fourteen?
«vim /proc/self/environ» shows only the four bytes are getting passed to children.
Dang. There was no dollar bill before the Civil War. Each bank had its own currency.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/07/166747693/episode-421-the-birth-of-the-dollar-bill