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Living with Half a Brain

Hemispherectomy - the removal of one half of the brain, allows children with a certain type of epilepsy a chance at a normal life. An article in the New Yorker on this crazy, medieval procedure. The ability of our bodies and brains to adapt is just amazing.
(via mefi)

Mick Clark’s Testing Session from Rails Conf

Mike Clark’s testing session disappointed me

Nerdiest Quote Overheard @ Rails Conf

I’m a Java project mananger. That’s basically equivalent to being a Dark Lord of the Sith!!

Rails Conf Brain Dump

The wireless sucks and not much time, so here are some random thoughts near the end of Day two:

Over 90% of attendees have macs. Literally. Crazy.
no free audio/podcasts from the sessions == lame
otherwise, the production quality has the usual high Jay standards
just about everyone is here, except Matz
what other programming community has its […]

Rails Conf 2006, this blog, and biking

Jim and I leave here in about six hours to try and beat the rush hour traffic to Chicago for Rails Conf. I should probalby try to get some sleep. I’ll try to cover the event for Ajaxian, tho I’m not sure how much true ajax related content there will be. I […]

Testing the ApplicationController in Rails

Not sure why this test case isn't generated right away, but here it is:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
require 'application'
# Re-raise errors caught by the controller.
class ApplicationController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end
class ApplicationControllerTest <Test::Unit::TestCase
 
  def setup
    @controller = ApplicationController.new
  end
 
# your test here
  def test_truth
    assert true
  end
end

Users Don’t Know (and Don’t Care) What RSS (or Ajax, or CSS…) Is

Jakob Nielsen nails a point that has been made by many others in his most recent column on newsletters. Most people don't know what RSS is, even though they may already be using it via MyYahoo or some other portal. The typical user doesn't know (or care) about RSS, HTML, CSS, or Ajax [...]

Peter Drucker on Reports, Forms, and Process

I'm reading The Essential Drucker, a compilation of some of the best of Peter Drucker's writings. Drucker had a amazing ability of distilling business to its essentials. He's writing for managers, but managers in the sense that all knowledge workers are increasingly becoming their own managers.
There are a lot of parallels with agile [...]