Diversity matters. After all, we’re in the meritocracy business:
We laugh at people who think software patents are awesome, or want to give the RIAA more power, or think big companies should have a veto power over new technologies that are “too disruptive.” Those are all positions that are coherent, understandable, and anti-meritocratic. We need to recognize that supporting a homogeneous status quo is just as dumb, and just as bad for our industry.
Werewolf hunting. Ruby and RoR conference calendar for 2010.
Level 3 powerup. Jeremy just released the Rails 3 upgrade handbook. Considering all the changes, at $12 it’s a pretty sweet deal.
Garb goes 0.7. Lot’s of awesome new stuff in Garb 0.7: slick API, OAuth and multiple sessions. Can’t wait to upgrade.
CMMI Level 5. It’s not broken. It doesn’t produce incorrect results. And it doesn’t cave under full load. Still, something feels wrong about this implementation of isValidNumber().
Cartoon, by WTTF