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July 15, 2011: Stale Links

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The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice [...]

Amazon, iPad, Ruby, RubyMine, Twitter, Uncategorized

Sep 3, 2010: Twitter for iPad and Other Craziness

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 3, 2010

Book Status RSpec chapter edits complete, a dozen or so errata squashed, and hopefully we’ll get beta 7 out. I suspect it’ll be after Labor Day, though. I’m pleased with how this one turned out. The RSpec chapter is a challenge — I’m literally squeezing a book’s worth of content into a chapter, but I [...]

iPad, Twitter

Sitting on the dock of the bay

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 15, 2010

No links post this morning, maybe later today. Meantime, enjoy me blathering abouta a couple of substitutions in my iPad dock: Position: RSS Reader Incoming: Reeder Outgoing: NewsRack An easy call. NewsRack is nice, but Reeder is: Smoking fast. Without a limit on downloaded articles per feed Much more accurate on sync — NewsRack has [...]

iPad, RSS, Twitter

May 10, 2010: The need for eyeballs

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Top Story Let’s start with this: there’s a small but embarrassing typo in the Pragazine article code. Especially since it was a) called out by the author of Mocha and b) was a direct copy from the book, and from the Lulu version before that, so it’s been public for about a year, and I’ve [...]

Bundler, errata, JRuby, MacRuby, Publishing, RubyMine, Twitter, Yehuda

April 15, 2010: The Library of Congress Recommends the Following Tweets

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 15, 2010

Top Story As part of the Chirp conference, Twitter and the Library of Congress jointly announced that the Library will be storing Twitter’s entire public archive. I’m sure your expecting an easy joke about how many sandwiches the LoC now knows about in their archive, or about how scholarly papers about the archive will be [...]

Agile, Bundler, iPad, Library of Congress, Pair Programming, Pragmatic, Ruby, Twitter

Rails Rx Standup: April 12, 2010

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 12, 2010

Top Story For a while, it looked like the top story was going to be Apple’s new developer Rule 3.3.1, described here by John Gruber. More on that in a second. But the real top story is the news that Twitter has bought Tweetie, intending to rebrand it as Twitter for iPhone, and dropping the [...]

Agile, Apple, Git, RSpec, standup, testing, This American Life, Twitter

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