This is an amazing video showing how much you can accomplish with a lot of computer skills. I was still hopeful up until the point they started injecting 3d models into the final image. I’m a fine compositor - but I never got the hang of the 3D stuff (unless an afternoon spent with Poser counts)
Since I finally have autotest up and running (with notifications under Linux) I decided to try out this plugin. I can’t decide if it is awesome or the most annoying thing ever. I’ll provide feedback after I use it for a couple of days.
FozWorks: Autotest: Now, With Sound Effects!
We’ve all been enjoying autotest, part of the ZenTest gem. If you’ve tricked out your kit, then you have plugins configured, so at minimum you’re red, green and growling. Now, things get really fun.
Update
Ok based on my experience in the past with my computer making repetitive noises - I assumed that I would remove the noise maker feature after a few minutes. It turns out I like it. It is especially handy because it makes a short noise to signal the start of the test run (For some reason I always end up looking at the terminal with autotest running to see if it is doing its thing).
So basically, I totally recommend trying it out. Maybe you won’t like it - or maybe like me you’ll be surprised and find it useful.
I saw this in the RSpec code while I was writing tests today:
[self.errors.on(attribute)].flatten.compact
It struck me as a very concise way to handle the case where it is either a scalar or an array (assuming you don’t care if the returned array is nested). It might get you out of some gymnastics trying to account for both cases.
A nice example of giving the people what they want from This American Life - by that I mean abusing drunk people who aren’t exactly the friendliest customers in the world. Be warned this is totally NSFW!
The thing that makes this clip the most insightful isn’t that the owners figured out how to amp up their business by allowing employees to curse. The more interesting part was that with a small shift in the social contract you get people to dive deep into their primordial selves and connect with their basest nature.
Of course on the other hand you could be an upstanding, straight laced professional industry - and still secretly hate your customers. Airlines Fight Passenger Rights
Funny not just because it has Micheal Cera - but it helps…
I was hoping to pick up a PDF version of The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez. I already have a print version - but I didn’t want to have to carry around a 912 page book for reference.
I’ve become hooked on PDF versions of my favorite tech books. It makes it seriously handy to having them when I need them - minus the hernia.
I won’t be getting this one because Addison Wesley only publishes PDFs that are controlled by Adobe’s DRM. Before you start to think this is something political (DRM vs Non-DRM is a discussion for another day) - the issue is actually a practical one. Adobe doesn’t support DRM on Linux.
According to their website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/faq/
Will a Linux® version of Digital Editions be available?
Yes, a desktop Linux is under development and a public beta is expected later this year.
No idea if they wrote that in 2007 or 2008. On one hand I hope that they add support - on the other hand I can always hope that AW goes the way of the Prags and releases a PDF without DRM - though I won’t hold my breath.
One good thing (if you can call it that) is the online vendor actually warned me about the DRM before I purchased the pdf. About a year ago I bought a shortcut from AW about user acceptance testing that was DRM’d - it turned out to be a huge pain to work with -mainly be relegated to the once read through in Windows never to be seen again.
I briefly toyed with the idea of circumventing the DRM - but it turned out I didn’t like the short cut enough to bother. That is of course the down side to DRM - I’m a legitimate customer who wants to enjoy what I’ve payed for in the environment where I actually do the work (namely on an Ubuntu desktop). The restrictions that seem to violate my fair use (I’m not trying to distribute it - just access it without a lot of cartwheels) - encourages me to break the DRM and feel justified in doing so. For a perfect example see -DeCSS.
In this case, I’ll just carry the book for now…
Update
Looks like I can get the chapters I liked the best DRM free via my Safari account with Oreilly.com - so I won’t have to lug it around after all :)
In a word - WOW - shame he built it around a plastic tub instead of a steel conical fermenter :)
I’ve accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM. My primary duties are (drumroll….) CouchDB! So all the stuff I’ve been doing up until now for free I’ll be doing full time and be getting paid for it! Yee Haw!
Looks like the “post-SQL” world is actually heating up…
CommandShift3 - It’s like Hot or Not for web design
CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not.
Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites.
