Social source. Tired of Facebook? Try some social source control network for a change. GitHub in this case, and I’ll let Ryan Tomayko explain.
Social tables. Hat Factory and Citizen Space in a NYT article about co-working. (Nagistration required, but I’m making an exception)
Guilty as charged. Taking 1/3 the blame for Engtech’s I Can Has Ruby tumblr. The other 2/3 goes to Reg and Giles, good company to be in. Also, for my dumbed-down undo plugin that motivated Pascal to create a more sophisticated rails-undo-redo. Also echoing Pascal, now that RubyGems is packaged with JRuby and 1.9, will we start seeing more Gems and less plugins?
Service Oriented Agility. Sometimes, technology is not about what you do, but how you do things. InfoWorld reports that SOA spend up despite unclear benefits, one reason:
Findley noted that the projects don’t happen faster because of code reuse. Instead, it is the changed mindset that SOA brings to development and management of technology as a whole that provides the real benefit, Findley said.
SOA adopters do typically see that improved agility, regardless of what led them to SOA, Findley said: “Very few decide it’s not worth it.”
I’d buy that.
You had to ask? Turns out, when looking at the entire body of collective research, antidepressants are no more effective than placebos. Seriously. I’m thinking, lots of money and people’s time wasted running clinical trials, when all you have to do is ask. If antidepressants made people happy, they would be the ultimate party drugs.
Picture, test or else (via Jim Weirich)
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