The Cave

“Attention Deficit Hey Look a Squirrel”

The definitive source for true randomness There’s even a web service that “generates randomness via atmosphereic noise”. Neat.

Unix timestamp converter, with some code tips for numerous languages (see bottom of page).

Aha! Now I get it. “Metal” is merely a way to write an HTTP handler bypassing most of Rails’ machinery (controllers, views, etc). # app/metal/poller.rb class Poller < Rails::Rack::Metal def call(env) if env["PATH_INFO"] =~ /^\/poller/ [200, {"Content-Type" => "application/json"}, Message.recent.to_json] else super end end end Looks like the handler returns a tuple, ahem, an array [...]

From here, but I find this one the most delightful: “The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you’ve got millions of pals out there. Type in ‘Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire’ and the computer will say, ‘Specify [...]

From here, but I find this one the most delightful: “The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you’ve got millions of pals out there. Type in ‘Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire’ and the computer will say, ‘Specify [...]

From here, but I find this one the most delightful: “The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you’ve got millions of pals out there. Type in ‘Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire’ and the computer will say, ‘Specify [...]

Nice color-coded chart of jQuery APIs, grouped by category:

Neat. Think “VMware Fusion’s Unity mode, for an XP VM on a Win7 desktop – free with Win7.”

Recommended reading if you’re familiar with ‘static’ languages and don’t get “that whole ‘dynamic’ thing”.

Word is Manhattan Associates is doing another layoff. Yet more bad news for MA. [Update-1] More news here. Highlights <sic>: ~100 people laid off (PDO=~30, PSO=~50) 401K plan suspension Across-the-board pay cut (employee=4.7%; executive=10%; CEO=25%) “an unpaid time-off plan” (aka furlows) Stock repurchase “The Company repurchased 678,500 common shares totaling $10.0 million at an average [...]

Another handy one from Fred, this time enumerating several Unix shells and their startup configuration, among other things. Very handy.

There’s an app for that.

Static C/C++ source code analyzer (aka lint). Free.

Detailed (simple) directions how to setup Passenger and Apache on a development box.

Handy. Though Ruby (or at least much in the ecosystem) obnoxiously expects the poorly named HOME environment variable e.g. SET HOME=c:\ruby Good thing they used such a discriminating name so there’d be no ambiguity with other applications… Numbnuts.

All too timely (sadly).

Check out Riker’s face when Worf speaks. I never noticed that before.

Books. Sheesh.

Wow.

Heh.

Started in 2007, it’s now 19 routes and 53 buses I usually take the route 5 bus – Sammamish and Issaquah Highlands (me!) directly to Redmond campus. Just like riding the King county bus to Amazon, except it’s 5 minutes longer, a nice bus (Greyhound coach style) and free wifi

C# conveniences to make coding easier: The ? conditional evaluation operator Null-Coalesce operator (??) Object Initializers The using statement Aliases for long winded namespaces and types Nullable objects Automatic Properties Type inference Lambda Expressions string.IsNullOrEmpty And bonus points coming in C# 4.0: Optional and named parameters in C# 4.0

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