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Madison Ruby on Rails wiki setup

Finally got i2 setup on dreamhost for the Madison Ruby on Rails Wiki. Most of the trouble was due to human error, of course. There is still an issue where it seems Rails uses the cached version of a page when it should really hit the database to pick up changes. Not [...]

Wikipedia = new hotness. Encyclopedia Britannica = old and busted.

Chartreuse nails another one - the full article at Know More Media.
Plus, that quote makes a great headline.

IDEA vs Textmate, and Rails 1.1 web services

Patrick has a well-reasoned comparison of IntelliJ IDEA and Textmate and how well this work with HTML/CSS. IDEA wins out for code completion and error highlighting, but Textmate wins for its light footprint and speed. Its good to see a balanced comparison of tools from someone who works with both.
Jamis highlights how easy [...]

Ruby and Ruby on Rails Book Roundup

Explosion of the Ruby book market - at least sixteen books coming 2006!

Do you program? You need to read Steve Yegge.

Adding Steve Yegge to the A-List of Programmer Bloggers

Why not to use Ant

Via Projectionist:
Michael K. - I just asked a former co worker why he hasn't written an ant task to deploy their app
Michael K. - "dude - they pay me by the hour"
Michael K. - enterprise right there

A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects

Brian Marick started a book on objects in Ruby five years ago called A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects [PDFs here]. Its written in the unique style the The Little Schemer and A Little Java, A Few Patterns. You could go as far as to call these books the Socratic method applied [...]

Lets not go Crazy with the Social Chiclets, People

The little icons on the bottom of blog posts, not the gum.

Paul Graham has a new, more informal blog

Paul Graham has a new blog over at Infogami. Its a more a typical blog compared to the essays at his main site. I'm digging this:
...There are thousands of smart people who could start companies and don't, and with a relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place, we can [...]

Top Five Worst APIs in Java

Its monday morning and I forgot my coffee thermos at home. Drinking corporate coffee sucks. Guess I might as well complain about Java.

Calendar - Bad.
Date - Worse? Date and Calendar might be the most ridiculous Java APIs ever created. With date you can at least say getYear or getMonth, but then [...]