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Geoff Rickly, who some might know as the singer of Thursday, recently published a fantastic novel called "Soneone Who Isn't Me," which is a lightly fictionalized account of his exp…

Thanks for mentioning this. I've actually been working through that book over the past few days and think that anecdote really got under my skin. For some reason it didn't dawn on …

I'm surprised to hear so much negativity about Amtrak. I live in NYC and head upstate (to Rochester) for business regularly and Amtrak is by far my favorite way to make the trip. A…

This is great! I work at a startup building apps ( http://zerography.com is currently live; hopefully more soon) to get custom printed stuff into people's hands for free, and think…

These are all pretty good examples. That being said, I recently spent some time reading through the source of both Gemcutter.org and RailsDevelopment.com and found both to be very …

Still reeling from the weekend; my first Rumble. We also got an app built and deployed, a simple little game: http://marryboffkill.com The whole time I expected that it would be th…

I'm suddenly reminded of the Eggers novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" wherein the characters go on a week-long international journey trying to give away an inherited sum of mone…

While I agree mostly with your view, I just spent quite a bit of time looking over the local sex offender lists of several cities I've lived in, and I can say for sure that at leas…

I was hoping I was about to read a comparison similar to http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ (which is concise and intelligent, even with its inherent bias).

This title might have struck me as even more surprising had it read "Apple Sold Half As Many Macs As iPhones Last Quarter."

This is fantastic! I sent this to some other friends here in NYC who have all had the same response: "I always thought that would make a great app." It hits the iPhone sweet spot o…

I'm so tired of reading about web servers/services going down.

Great story. I found myself doing just about the same thing (eerily similar settings in my neighborhood in Brooklyn) when my girlfriend's iPhone was stolen just a few days before W…

Interesting, I'm not getting this flaw at all. Which version of 2.3 is this addressing? Rails 2.3.1 only? I just tried this on a 2.3.2 app and got HTTP Basic: Access denied.

You can do it easily in Rails without a redirect too, and without regex as used in Django. In routes.rb for example: map.login '/login.php', :controller => 'sessions', :action => '…

It's worth taking a look at the results of the David Foster Wallace Parody Competitions: http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/parody.htm Making lighthearted jokes about Wallace's synta…

Nested Model Forms are a timely addition. When I was learning Rails, I always kind of assumed forms could work more like this. More information: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/…

I went to two meetings here in NYC. Met some great people and had a great time seeing what other hackers were up to. I keep assuming all the layoffs combined with the onset of wint…

It always puts me a bit off when I see people trying to apply science to an aesthetic issue like this one (this article is way less guilty than many others on the subject). There i…

I've been really excited for this for about a year now, and have been having a great time playing with the pure Git workflow. If you look at this problem in one direction (only doe…

This is a really great idea. I'm excited to try it out. Congratulations!