August 2009
89 posts
Safari crashes are driving me crazy. #snowleopard #fail
wicked. I love memcache. And ruby 1.9. And Capistrano
I do hope Rails3 targets 1.9.2+ as rumoured. It’s a huge speed improvement, and a great way to nudge Rubyists into making the leap. #rails
RT @ChumpFeed: http://bit.ly/GRgVa tile drawer: EC2 images pre-configured and easily customised to run your own OpenStreetMap tileserver
The white cat is in the satchel. The Cambridge Apple Store people are so nice I suspect they may all be on drugs.
weird system fonts in snow leopard…
System font issue fixed, everything seems to be working fine. Cor.
The best book on Ruby, now only $9.99 for the PDF: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/ or, you know, you could bittorrent it.
Stop. Memcache time! Duu du du du, duuuu du. Can’t cache this!
Hell freezes over. In other news, Spotify is released on iPhone: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8225731.stm
Looking for work in or around Madrid.
Awesome collection of study material for beginner Railers http://bit.ly/1cBDXX (via @AkitaOnRails)
I know I’m late to the party, but just got first project running under ruby 1.9 thanks to rvm. 100% increase in render speed. s’easy now!
hmm… BlazeDS, JRuby, Flex & Rails. The plot thickens.
Adobe open sources the Flex Data Visualization Components http://bit.ly/I63nk (via @GeoDAWG)
This Google static maps update is cool, but do server side libs exist for divining the correct zoom level for given bounds?
Ye gods! it’s the cursed antimeridian! Well well well, we meet again….
The old long lat switcheroo facepalm.
Web 101, required reading: http://bit.ly/EQppc
Love this word cloud app. bleedin cool: http://www.wordle.net
all this “wandering into a store to buy a shiny disk” has got to die out soon.
wonder if I can just wander into the apple store and pick up a copy of snow leopard today?
Huh. Rackspace Cloud. Looks nicer than EC2. Is this what slicehost has become? http://www.rackspacecloud.com/
Damn. No external DB’s allowed on #Heroku. Would’ve been a sweet way to test #PostGIS backed #rails apps.
oh: EC2 and sprinkle is quite useful.
I want one: http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=2837
ooh SVG toolkit in IE now. thanks big G!
Watching shooting stars and satellites meander across the sky in the garden. I love weekends.
16.times do “nah ” * 11 p “hey juuuude”
end #songsincode #thebeatles
true == love ? IO.wait #songsincode #radiohead
installing postrgesql on EC2/ubuntu: http://bit.ly/g9ONV
Interesting that #AWS are pushing all the savings onto reserved instances, not on the PAYG hourly rate. Securing their income?
*love* the way #AWS are reducing the cost of their #EC2 reserved instances as the specs get older (and cheaper).
Lower prices for #AWS #EC2 Reserved Instances http://bit.ly/tAzDG Good timing! (via @TallMartin)
RT @_why: when you don’t create, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
“how to design a good API & why it matters”-its kinda about java,but applies 2 web APIs 2 http://tr.im/wO1I (via @pamelafox)
Galaxyzoo architecture moving towards realtime-ish monitoring #csa09
what’s in it for the scientists? Generation of data -> analysis -> publications -> money. Spot the odd one out
Apparrently, there is a coral zoo. Interesting….
Galaxy zoo - initiated by smallish grants: Google, MS… Currently sustainable, but will have to develop other forms of funding. #csa09
Getting closer to home :) MoonZoo is coming…. (via @galaxyzoo)
slicing off top of finger is bad for programming productivity. Bad timing.
slipped in at the back #csa09
“The Zooniverse” #csa09
#csa09 discussion of the awesomeness/time graph - “what are your criterion for awesomeness?”….! (via @CSAgreenwich)
Ack. Dug _why for his code, artwork, thoughts and words. Sorry he’s gone.
Thought you could ride a bike? Think again: http://bit.ly/plYda via @xshay
Got 75.5mpg in mums prius yesterday, shame the UI is such a dogs dinner. Toyota: it has a touchscreen, no need for all the buttons!
Simon:1, Massive ivy bush:0
heading into slightly murkier waters with jruby postgis and activerecord. Fisher, Dogger, German Bite. Westerly. Good.