Back with a vengeance. libxml is back (via Ruby Inside):
libxml-ruby now runs on Windows (thanks to Charlie), doesn’t segfault all the time, and the bindings have all been fixed over the past year (thanks to Dan Janowski).
Hopefully more frequent releases will mean never having to REXML.
Also check out Peter’s post about Starling, a “light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol.”
WordPress tips. 8 tips for WordPress that I’ve never seen before. Just rolled a few of those on Labnotes.
Don’t overdue the fu. Aaron Pfeifer sums it up with:
acts_as_chuck_norris is impossible – the only thing that can act like Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris.
Choice quote. Best summary of last week:
First four hours of iTunes connections yesterday, now this. All for Super Monkey Ball! Was it worth it? Well, yes. Obviously. But still.
Pradipta’s Rolodex. A case of recruiter spam gone bad, and ended up for the best.