Gluttonous : Guide: Things You Shouldn’t Be Doing In Rails
Koz recently checked code into core that kicks and screams all the way home if you’re using deprecated methods or instance variables. In honor of this I’ve decided to give you a list of things I still see over and over in Rails code that you really shouldn’t be doing anymore. Really. Trust me on this.
a flower called nowhere ++ go fly a kite with a hole in it ++:
Comparing the whole Bush/Rove/Rumsfeld/evangelical right-wing Christian/capitalist agenda to a cancer upon our country is insulting to cancer.
Technorati Tags: politics
Library Journal – The Gender Gap
We won’t be changing to help women. We will be doing it for our libraries, for our profession, and for ourselves. We need women in digital library positions. We need their unique perspective and their civilizing influence on the boys’ clubs that many library systems units, professional events, and online forums have become. But more than that, we simply need their talent.
Excellent article by Roy Tennant. Read the whole thing. I especially agree about the civilizing influence. It would go a long way towards eliminating the tedious culture of one-upmanship often endemic to technical communities. As long as we continue to have a geek culture mainly driven by the wants and desires of 20-something white males, we’re going to miss out on the true potential of Web 2.0 as an agent for far-reaching change. And in a profession like librarianship where women are by any measure the majority, the lack of women in systems librarianship just doesn’t make any sense at all.
Technorati Tags: library, library+2.0, systems+librarianship, feminism, geek, politics
We need time to think; we need (metaphorical) quiet to get into the flow. A tool that shouts “spelling error” with every typo is providing more distraction that help. Yet it feels good to make those red squiggles disappear — “We’re making progress!” — it feels good to play with fonts and shift the format. A computer is a far different beast that Heidegger’s hammer: it can be at hand in many ways simultaneously.
Having had to do some writing for MPOW lately, I’ve found that I’ve been getting good results by forcing myself to ignore the red squiggles and just plow on. It was a revelation of sorts – at first it’s really difficult to not correct immediately, but if you can get over that initial resistance, it gets easier to ignore the squiggles. Then when I come to a natural break in my thoughts, I can go back and right-click the errors into correctness. It’s very easy for me to fall into the trap of letting font-tweaking and margin-narrowing – the virtual equivalent of pencil sharpening and squaring the pad with the desk – keep me from getting to work.
Technophilia: Ten ways to search with Technorati – Lifehacker
Before I get really going with all the search nerdiness helpful Technorati search tweaks, I want to point out that there are other excellent blog search engines out there: Sphere, PubSub, Feedster and Ice Rocket, to name a few. I picked Technorati to play with because it’s the one that I and a lot of other folks use the most – however, your mileage may vary.
Some good ways to search Technorati when it’s working. I ‘m starting to use it more; in the past, I perceived it as little more than an egoboo amplifier for the usual suspects. Now, though, it appears to be gaining enough critical mass to be useful. The “Top x” lists are still annoying, though.
Technorati Tags: technorati, geek, search
Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger » Niall leaves Microsoft
Good news for NewsGator, though, since NewsGator already has a decent synchronization platform.
Nice rundown of the various validators available in Rails.
Technorati Tags: ruby, rails, geek, programming
Pluralization Tester for the Ruby on Rails Inflector | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
Uh, this shows you how Rails “pluralizes” a word. I had no idea this was a problem.
dzone.com – fresh links for developers
Any number of Digg clones are appearing, and dzone aims to be digg for developers. Nice drilldowns for specific areas with their own rss feeds. – you can get ruby (actually rails, but is anyone doing non-rails ruby? If they broke them out, the ruby category’d be empty), java, usability. Looks well-done and a good resource. No Library 2.0, though.
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