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Just in: choose your language carefully
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| I have regarded it as the highest goal of programming language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.-- C.A.R. Hoare, 1981Language designers also have an obligation to provide languages that encourage good style, since we all know that style is strongly influenced by the language in which it is expressed.-- Donald Knuth, 1974I... |
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Industry Misinterpretations 87: Murder, Mayhem, an
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| This week we have a pretty full podcast - we covered Suns backstroke on close-sourcing parts of MySQL, the problems for ReiserFS with the guilty verdict for the developer, Knuths interview where he dissed testing, mocks, and multi-threading - and a host of Smalltalk news, including Smalltalk Solutions and ESUG announcements. In Smalltalk... |
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Just in: permanently low quality of software
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| I feel that all too often we have been satisfied with such a low level of quality that we have done ourselves harm in the process. We seem not to be able to use the machine, which we all believe is a very powerful tool for manipulating and transforming information, to do our own tasks in this veryfield.-- R. W. Hamming, 1969 |
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Velocity, capacity and productivity
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| A teams velocity is the sum of the estimates of the user stories that were done during the iteration.Some people use velocity as a measure of productivity. Productivity is the rate of production measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input, but I like to think of velocity as the capacity of the team because it represents the... |
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Some Bugs just linger
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| With the rise of Macs, this is the sort of old bug that matters: a 25 year old flaw in Samba for BSD. Makes me wonder how many other "oldies but goodies" are lurking in the codebase of BSD... |
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Green Heron
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| Green Heron, Butorides virescens Dana Point, 2008-05-10 |
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Best Doc for VirtualBox
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| THe best do c for VirtualBox since we cannot have 3d effects seems to be Cairo-Doc, see screenshot. I had to turnoff auto-hide. |
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links for 2008-05-11 from PeopleOverProcess.com
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| martin father of #scala on TwitPic (tags: pictures scalaliftoff scala MartinOdersky) JavaFX To Be Closed Source, Non-Free? at Simon’s Blog There’s some marketing to be fixed here. (tags: javafx riaweekly opensource javaone2008) Share This |
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SimDoc Trick
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| So for whatever reason you cannot run AWN but want that neat effect of doc on top of app window by using SimDoc. There is a way. Drag SimDOc to top gnome panel. Minimize and resize every app that you will ever run. Now you have that AWN effect without running AWN. The screenshot is in my flickr stream, link to the right. |
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Definition of an IDE
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| Someone shoots you some Java source code, you try to just open it up in IntelliJ, and then you realize that you need a freaking project. Instead, you open it up in Textmate and go from there. Hence, the definition of an IDE: If you have to create a project before you to open a file, you [...] |
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Shorthand named scopes
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| In the old days, we did this: User.find(:all, :conditions => { :subscribed => true }, :order => created_at DESC ) And then this: User.find_all_by_subscribed(true, :order => created_at DESC ) How about this? User.for_subscribed(true).order_by(created_at DESC).find(:all)... |
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Commit Policies
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| Git is a complicated beast. The Git index, if you’re coming from other VCS’s, is a new concept. Yesterday I described how I use the Git index in my workflow: These pictures illustrate the multiple locations, or “data stores”, that host a copy of the source tree. These stores are: the working directory, local and remote... |
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UbuntuSimDoc VirtualBox
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| The window navigator doc that works with VirtualBox is SimDoc which is in the universal part of Ubuntu. Once you get everything added and set up it to start on start up than you can delete the bottom gnome panel. You can see how I started in my flickr stream to the right. |
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Poll until a property becomes available
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| When dealing with ActionScript’s ExternalInterface.addCallback the method to be exposed might not be immediately available. whenAvailable polls until a property shows up on a javascript object, at which point it invokes the provided callback. function whenAvailable(availableObject, availableProperty, onAvailable) { if... |
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Expression Studio 2 Ships
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| The headline says it all. See the press release, see the website. |
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#411 and 412 at the Old Summer Temple
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| Saturday morning (Day #3) Beth was attending the conference so I decided to do some local birding. It took a bit of doing, but the kind folks at the registration desk managed to write “Please take me to the Old Summer Palace” on a piece of paper I could give to a cab driver. The disadvantages of a non-alphabetic language: they knew... |
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Setting up an encrypted store in Mac OS
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| Some of my co-workers like to use Notational Velocity to store sensitive information. Though a fine application, I’m partial to my existing tools and wanted something more general-purpose and flexible. To that end, I set up a simple encrypted disk image and configured it to mount with a password prompt when I log on. Open Disk [...] |
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Hey GitHub, nice Rack...
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| You like Rack eh? Yeah ya do big lad! You like Git? You like GitHub? Well then young man, checkout this Rack! #!/usr/bin/env ruby require rubygems require rack require json class App GO_AWAY_COMMENT = "Be gone, foul creature of the internet." THANK_YOU_COMMENT = "Thanks! You beautiful soul you." PORT = 9001 def self.rude_comment res = [...] |
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named_scope and subclasses
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| Nick Kallen’s named_scope allows you to create readable, powerful class-specific finder scopes. One thing that might bite new users is how it operates in the Class context. Specifically, Named Scopes created in a parent class, even those using the lambda syntax, are scoped to the parent class. For example, we might have a generic SQL... |
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bool_attr_accessor for convenient question marks
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| Update → Rick Olson pointed out the overhead in accessing instance_values, and suggested instead using instance_variable_get. Done! Ruby’s attr_accessor is incredibly handy for wiring up your class’s banal getters and setters. If you’re wiring up some simplebooleans this way though, wouldn’t you like to get the... |
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Happy Camper Studios in eWeek
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| David was on a panel at the recent JavaOne, and eWeek has a few quotes from him in an interesting article on the continued rise of the Ruby language. |
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Seaside in Raleigh
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| If youre interested in either Ruby or Smalltalk (or both!), and youre in the Raleigh NC area, Ill be speaking to the Ruby Brigade there on May 20: An Introduction To Seaside Seaside is an open source, cross-Smalltalk web application framework. Like Ruby on Rails, it is "opinionated software". Unlike Rails, its fairly heretical in its... |
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Ruby In Steel Personal - FREE with PC Pro
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| This months edition of the UKs PC Pro magazine (it says July on the cover but its already available in the middle of May, I promise you) has a free copy of Ruby In Steel on the cover DVD! Ruby In Steel Personal (2008) is available exclusively with PC Pro. It contains everything you need to get up and running with Ruby and Rails including a... |
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First Few Days with the GPS
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| It was somewhat of an impulse buy, and one that’s a little difficult to justify considering how little we actually travel anywhere by car. But at lunch time last Tuesday, I gave in and bought a Garmin nüvi 200W. I was getting ready to head out of town for a few days and knew that I’d [...] |
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Context at DZone
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| What is missing at Dzone that we had before the redesign is not in of itself the community discussion. But, that community discussion due to the experienced people adding their voices added context to every article at JavaLobby, EclipseZone, and etc. For example, any news article about JVM optimization such as this oneusually brought in voices... |
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