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October 30, 2007
Two million copies in the first weekend
Not bad at all. Talk about pent-up demand.
Posted 10:30 PM
October 28, 2007
An intro to Git (video)
By Randal Schwartz.
Posted 1:26 PM
October 25, 2007
Ruby in Leopard
Posted 9:12 PM
October 24, 2007
"Gutsy Gibbon"?
I am the only one who finds Ubuntu's naming schemes off-putting?
Posted 9:09 AM
Leopard leaked
Where are you in the queue? First served: pirates. Next up: retail customers. Last: developers.
Posted 8:48 AM
October 23, 2007
Little ol' Apple
Posted 10:09 AM
Story runner
Posted 10:07 AM
October 22, 2007
Story Runner update
David Chelimsky has put a lot of work into the new RSpec story runner, incorporating suggestions from a wide range of people and arriving at a solution that seems pretty much acceptable to everyone.
Looking forward to using it, although until the API is final I'm not going to touch it; too many other things on the go right now to spend time chasing a moving API.
Posted 1:12 PM
Rails caching
A couple of (slightly) dated tutorials, but still relevant.
Posted 12:31 PM
October 18, 2007
Mailtrap
Mailtrap is a "fake" SMTP server that allows you to really send mails in your Rails tests; it doesn't actually deliver the messages anywhere, but writes them to /var/tmp/mailtrap.log for your inspection. Not sure whether I'll use this but it's an interesting option.
Posted 2:03 PM
October 16, 2007
More on Story Runner
A nice intro. People are obviously very excited about RSpec's forthcoming Story Runner. As I mentioned in my last post, however, I'm not going to touch it until the API has firmed up a bit.
Posted 1:09 AM
October 15, 2007
Story Runner screencast
Pat Maddox has published a 35 minute screencast showing RSpec's new Story Runner in action (see also Pat's previous post on the story runner).
The Story Runner is an exciting development as it will finally bring built-in acceptance testing to RSpec, but it's not yet released and the API is likely to fluctuate a bit (lots of discussion on the mailing list about it) so I'm holding off for now.
Posted 12:56 PM
October 12, 2007
MS launches the first volley
The patent war on Linux has begun. MS isn't actually the one suing, but it may as well be.
Posted 2:12 PM
October 2007 Web Server Survey
The vexing trend continues; Microsoft IIS gaining month after month at the expense of Apache. Why is an inferior, more expensive product gaining market share like that? (Can it be that all of the gains are from hosting companies like GoDaddy being bribed by MS to park domains on IIS?)
Posted 2:05 PM
Git merging
A fantastic explanation of why Git does it so well.
Posted 1:23 PM
October 11, 2007
Preterite peter-out
Posted 2:32 PM
October 10, 2007
Bargains
Maxing out your Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM now costs "only" 5 grand (well, $4,799 to be precise).
Posted 9:19 PM
xkcd
Posted 12:21 PM
October 8, 2007
ZFS
Two posts on ZFS worth linking to. This one, on the other hand, isn't worth linking to at all, but I'm doing so because it serves as a contrast. Shame that this little piece of ill-informed trollery generated so much exasperation.
Posted 8:44 PM
October 7, 2007
Block-level Parallels-Fusion Migration
Wolf jumps through hoops to keep his virtualized mail server running. But I'm puzzled as to why he's doing this in a virtualized environment anyway. What can Debian do that — the obviously extremely-capable — Rentzsch can't get Max OS X to do?
Posted 2:18 PM
October 5, 2007
Videos on stack/malloc exploits
By the author of the paper I linked to the other day: 1, 2, 3.
Posted 7:52 PM
RHEL 5
Posted 7:25 PM
Looking forward to...
...when the RSpec Story Runner makes it into an official release (ultra-cautious me doesn't follow the tip of the trunk). See also this article.
Posted 1:53 PM
Rails 1.2.4
Out.
Posted 12:19 PM
Sup
Posted 12:04 AM
October 4, 2007
Hosting Rails is a bitch
"No matter what anyone says, hosting Rails applications is - and is likely to remain for the foreseeable future - a cast-iron bitch. An expensive, slow one, too."
Posted 9:35 PM
"Sources" say Leopard coming at the end of October
It doesn't really matter who these "sources" are (1, 2) -- invented or not, real or fake -- because if you keep even the most casual eye on developments in the Apple world (this includes basically all readers of this weblog) then you already know this.
Posted 4:15 PM
"How I Learned to Love Testing"
If you're not already on the RSpec/BDD bandwagon check out this presentation by Gregg Pollack. He's quite a good speaker and the presentation is very clear.
Posted 3:32 PM
CARS announces new books
Here.
Posted 2:04 PM
Fixture Replacement
Looks very handy (MOV).
Posted 1:07 PM
Mail.app is buggy
Delete nearly 3,000 plus emails. Rebuild the mailbox in an attempt to recover space. Watch as all 3,000 emails return from the dead. Delete again.
Posted 2:06 AM
Leopard's Dock Problem
I really don't see what all the fuss is about.
Posted 1:05 AM
rentzsch: NSWindow frame
Well how would you be? I'd never noticed before that NSWindow's frame method doesn't update during drags.
Posted 12:29 AM
October 3, 2007
Rails Envy podcast
Looks to be short, useful, and with high production values.
Posted 7:13 PM
Rails on Git: How much hype fits in 9MB?
The entire history of the Rails repository occupies only 9MB when imported into Git (via Michael Tsai's weblog). More good publicity for Git and some playfully snide remarks about Rails make for some pleasing reading.
Posted 6:50 PM
Wish this was available for Mac OS X
Valgrind. Significant work on a port was done by Apple's Greg Parker.
Posted 2:13 PM
Ballmer Peak
Nice.
Posted 8:56 AM
Defensive programming
Nice article from Red Hat's Ulrich Drepper (PDF); related slides (also PDF).
Posted 8:14 AM
October 2, 2007
Please
Don't perpetuate the practice of referring to David Heinemeier Hansson as "the King". Known as he is for his arrogance, I suspect that even he probably views such a label as ridiculous. He's a just a guy that wrote a popular framework and he already has his own three-letter acronym so let's just leave it at that.
Posted 3:29 AM
October 1, 2007
Rails 2.0
Posted 5:25 PM
