Did you know that if you’ve got Firebug for Firefox installed, you can use it for debugging your own code? By calling
console.log("Here's a message!");
Firebug will print the message to it’s internal message log. Neat!
Now, that’s all good. But let’s say you’re on a project that’s not using a Javascript preprocessor to minify and strip debugging […]
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Buy American wine. Drink it on your American yacht. Read Forbes for instructions on how to spend your money. Eat American caviar. Stuff hundreds into tip jars when you go get coffee. Read the “Most Expensive” blog for ideas on how to support the economy. We’ve got to keep our economy going, and since […]
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“Mr. Obama has, for at least brief moments, been forced offline. As he sat down with a small circle of advisers to prepare for debates with Senator John McCain, one rule was quickly established: No BlackBerrys. Mr. Axelrod ordered everyone to put their devices in the center of a table during work sessions. Mr. Obama, […]
Recently I posted some ideas about the characteristics of codes, specifically the codes used to identify the President. Most of it was theorizing on my part.
“…this code has to be easily spoken via phone. No doubt, you’d like a certain about of uniqueness. Also, it should be something that could be understood when spoken over […]
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Turns out that Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch wasn’t really groundbreaking. For it’s time, maybe. But it turns out that there’s a similar joke from the 4th century in Greece.
…a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died.
“When he was with me, he never did any such thing!” is the […]
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I read an article on H-1B visas in the Harvard Business Review, and there was an interesting point made that I wanted to share.
Multinationals, desperate to fill technical positions, have been seeking alternatives to the use of H-1Bs. A solution that’s growing in popularity is intracompany transfer visas, which allow a firm to bring an […]
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If you’ve ever lost a cell phone, you know how much of a pain in the ass it can be. I’ve definitely lost and damaged phones. Just ask Dan.
I was looking at some papers from a credit card company I use, and realized that they will reimburse me if my phone is lost or stolen.
I […]
Gregg’s “Speeding up Ruby, without the Rails” Presentation
He points out that the C library stuff is going to cause blocking, because Ruby’s threading manager doesn’t know when it can stop execution. He demos this with mysqlplus, showing 10 queries with the blocking driver, and then showing mysqlplus which is the non-blocking driver. 10x speedup.
He points […]
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Thursday AM Keynote by Matz
This is Matz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
He’s talking about his love of languages, and why he got into Ruby.
He’s addressing some of the criticisms, that it’s slow, poorly implemented, embedding issues…he says the list of complaints goes on forever.
But, now he’s talking about why is Ruby good. He says people say it’s enjoyable, that […]
I’m sure everyone has seen pop culture references to the “nuclear football”, a.k.a. the briefcase kept near the U.S. President that would be used if an emergency nuclear attack were required.
I was thinking about security this morning — codes and keys. Maybe it’s all the political discussion lately, but my mind went to the nuclear […]