Help others help themselves. Tomasz WÄ™grzanowski’s little helper gets IRB to show useful helpful messages. Neat trick.
In code we trust. There’s testing your code to make sure it works and your fixes don’t break anything. Then there’s just writing your code and trusting it works. Often automagic code generation and XML overload help saves you from coding, but also keeps you from testing. Ed Gibbs notes: “Getting to a green bar with an SCA module: 47 steps”.
The fallacy of busy. The parable of two programmers is one of those articles worth re-reading once in a while. (Via Paul Knapp)
For extra measure, you can always use the fake progress bar. (Via Jeremy Zawodny)
The weirdest Ruby/Rails video yet. Part captivating, part scary, part “are we in the same industry?”
Using microformats: the book. Yeah, I know, you watched the movie :-) Brian Suda writes, Vitamin reviews, and let a million semantic HTML bloom.
links for 2006-11-06 — Chip’s Quips