Location, location, location. Tom Coats: Instrumenting your life from Webstock 09. Engaging presentation on how we use social data and location-aware services (or maybe how social data is using us).
Still growing. Ruby use on the rise (via @alexbarnett):
According to a new study from Evans Data, Ruby use is on the rise in North America. On a year-over-year basis, Ruby usage has increased by 40 percent so far in 2009.
But, even with the big increase, Ruby is still far from being pervasive. Evans’ study found that only 14 percent of developers in North America use Ruby some of the time. They are currently forecasting the number to rise to 20 percent for 2010.
GoGaRuCo The Golden Gate Ruby Conference videos are available online.
Let me guess how this ends. An epic story of bugwards compatibility:
And that is why, in 2009, when developing in Microsoft .NET 3.5 for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on a Windows 7 system, you cannot include
/com\d(\..*)?,/lpt\d(\..*)?,/con(\..*)?,/aux(\..*)?,/prn(\..*)?, or/nul(\..*)?in any of your routes.
There, I fixed it. Apropos MS Windows: Epic kludges + adventures in home ownership. Hilarious.
Image, via Carlo Zottmann.