Gender inclusive. Check out the attendance for the Ruby on Rails outreach workshop for women.
And broader, Technically Women – tech professionals that just happen to be women (via @monkchips)
PubSubWebRabbitHubHook. Aside from the lack of HMAC authentication, I really like where PubSubHubBub is going, and the ease of letting RabbitMQ do the hard bits.
How not to win friends. The secret to writing unmaintainable code. (via @stilkov)
Revisionists. I want to correct a wrongful impression from Paul Downey’s excellent piece ETSI 2.0 (via @dehora):
Web services, not to be confused with The Web, evolved through privileged people in smoke filled rooms writing specifications which they then attempted to rubber-stamp in a number of different consortia.
I understand why people still feel that way, but given that time has passed and we’re well into the healing phase, I’d like to correct a common misconception. In reality there was no smoking allowed and the rooms were well ventilated. I should know, I was a smoker.
Drool worthy. Lots of cool milspec stuff at Country Comm.
Video: can your PC do that? (via @sireland)