Archive for May 24th, 2009
Code Reviews
I miss ReviewBoard. We’re currently using ‘the Yell method’, which blows. ReviewBoard isn’t perfect, but it’s lightyears ahead of any other tool or process I’ve ever seen or experienced. And many others agree. This holds some hints to a solution: Atrice, Malevich and (especially) Team Review sound promising. Time to do some more reading…
Ruby Performance
Ruby has a Distribution Problem
Here’s an interesting line of dialogue I stumbled over, in short, the Debian folks have serious gripes about the fundamental distribution model espoused and supported by Ruby Gems: Ruby Gem is from Mars, aptget is from Venus Ruby has a distribution problem Rails? Stay the f* away from my system Upstream Developers, Be Nice to [...]

