Shoot the foot. Intersting article on Artima: Are Ruby’s Open Classes a Poor Fit for Large Projects?. Let me answer it this way. People who do not read The Daily WTF are destined to repeat the WTF’s of their predecessors. I never saw a programming language that can cure stupidity, only languages that add safety caps so they look safe, while slowing you down. Of course, languages that promote good practices are of value, but that’s a different subject. (Via Raganwald)
This looks easy. You only need to follow these 9 rules to put text inside XML. Or you can just use hAtom. (Via Bill de hÓra)
Innovation is correlated. Raganwald on SmallTalk and XP: “I conclude that the relationship between SmallTalk and XP is one of correlation, not causality. In my opinion, radically different practices like XP are most likely to be discovered/invented by people who are willing to bet on radically different tools like (at the time) SmallTalk.”
Speed reading. Like speed dating, but you get something interesting out of it. Seriously, spreeder (can’t blame them for the name) is a really cool app for speed reading just about anything. Grab a post, copy and paste it into spreeder and watch the words fly on the screen. And stick in your head. Great for learning how to speed read, or just getting back in practice. (Via Lifehack).
Pageviews are obsolete. Everything you wanted to know about why pageviews don’t count, unless, that is, you’re trying to make money on ads or a buy-out, since we have nothing better to measure by.