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The Tao of Ruby, Python, Agility and... Straw Dogs?

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  • Tabs vs. Spaces

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 15:03 in php, javascript, ruby, java, Linux, General, python, pear

    Every time I’ve seen one of these “vs” posts its gone into great length about the philosophy behind such and such.  You’ll never convince someone based on ‘religious argument’. So I’m going to take a differ...

  • Epic Self Documenting Code

    Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 04:59 in java, General, silliness

    This is the best: switch (mIntegrationDirection) { case InventoryIntegrationDirection.DoTheSameChangeInShop: DoTheSameChangeInShop(GetChangedDataFromInventory(mLastSynchDate)); break; case InventoryIntegrationDirection.DoTheSameCh...

  • GMail Downtime: Affected Small Subset of Users?

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 06:35 in web technologies

    No it didn’t. According to a quote on the Telegraph website the GMail downtime affected only a small subset of users but if you look at the comments on the story it was hitting people in Florida, France, UK and Canada. That’s quite a big,...

  • Django CMS

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 02:27

    Finally a Django CMS that looks stable and well built has been released at: http://www.django-cms.org. It’s sponsored by a Chinese compay which doesn’t bother me one bit (I love kung fu films) but the Americans seem obsessed with the idea...

  • Seskelohots is Lonely

    Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 17:27

    I have no idea who this is but they commented about 4 months ago claiming to be lonely. They need a hug. I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death - Seskelohots With no spammy links posted I can only ...

  • Best Linux Filesystem?

    Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 17:28

    The executive summary in my own words of which filesystem to pick if you’re wondering which is best. I’m avoiding jargon or anything overly technical. I also provide some made-up* graphs to help with quick decision making. Overview Ext2...

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