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"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." -- Einstein
jay
posted on Jul 09, 2007
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According to this blog, the WSJ is reporting that salaries of top foreign tech talent is converging with those in America. I've been a hiring manager for a... read entire post
jay
posted on Jul 03, 2007
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The internet is full of young hackers asking why lisp isn't more popular if it is all that it is claimed to be. I'm in the process of learning lisp so I can't address the validity of the claims, but one immediately obvious short coming is the lack of go... read entire post
jay
posted on Jun 26, 2007
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Firefox is a hog, it's slow, and I have problems with it on a daily basis. However... read entire post
jay
posted on Jun 07, 2007
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I was discussing a bug in a rails app with a friend which led us try and find the best way to obtain a list of all the ActiveRecord models defined in our a rails app. This does not include AR models defined in plugins or other such things. If thi... read entire post
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posted on Jun 04, 2007
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I quickly realized that emacs is the de facto lisp editor and that I needed to learn a bit of emacs to go with the lisp flow and avoid many headaches.... read entire post
jay
posted on May 11, 2007
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I'm making a map mashup that generates maps for various points. I took me a little while to figure out how to set the center and zoom level based on the points being mapped so here it is.... read entire post
jay
posted on May 09, 2007
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The google maps api is powerful, but the documentation is seriously lacking. I bought the pragmatic book by Scott Davis, but that is seriously lacking as well.... read entire post
jay
posted on May 08, 2007
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This will become a list of the common mysql commands which I never remember the exact syntax when I want to use them.... read entire post
jay
posted on Apr 30, 2007
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An in depth look at the routing mechanism (routes.rb) in Ruby on Rails... read entire post
jay
posted on Apr 27, 2007
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We recently changed some urls on soulcast and I found myself painfully updating the urls in many of our integration tests. named routes to the rescue!... read entire post
jay
posted on Apr 21, 2007
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Blocks, or closures as they are sometimes called, were new to me when I first started using ruby. At first I didn't see what all the fuss was about.... read entire post
jay
posted on Apr 17, 2007
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Polymorphism is one of the reasons I love dynamic languages.... read entire post
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posted on Apr 12, 2007
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"This fall, Tesla will deliver an electric car like none you've never seen: an extremely hot-looking two-seat roadster (teslamotors.com)."... read entire post