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    IBM to buy Sun?

    Comment hereIBM managed to make money from Java, and Sun never really did So, there's an irony here. IBM picked Java up, wrote better tools, more popular (although horrible to code against) J2EE server. It does make sense for everyone, the engine

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    What I put into the New Scientist survey

    I would like to see some proper reporting of the carbon phobia debate.I would like to see some reporting of the Japanese contention that "climate change" is on a par with astrology. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_repo

    Comments (0) . Monday, 16 March 2009

    DHH - "Fuck the real world"

    Comment here. Well, yes, but. You also need an idea that's worth bothering with. Paul Graham points out (at some length) that you need to go for something painful that other people think is too hard or difficult and then find a novel and easy way

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    Microsoft woos Open Source developers with Visual Studio?

    Comment here I don't develop on Windows any more. Last time I used VS it ate the machine and installed a ton of services running SQL Server and other .Net stuff without even asking or explaining what it was doing. It's just a fancy editor wi

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 25 February 2009

    BNP membership, free speech and all that jazz

    Comment left here.After WW II there was a specific ban on people joining or organising fascist groups, for obvious reasons. AFAIK this ban hasn't been appealed for public servants and it is a serious issue for them, I think you sign a piece of pa

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    guerilla bumper stickers

    http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=6370Buy lots and sneak around car parks sticking them on bumpers, particularly beemers and mercs (heh)You know you want toBut of course I can't condone lawless behaviour

    Comments (0) . Saturday, 15 November 2008

    Rails RJS render throwing mysterious render error in Princely plugin

    WARNING: Rails techie stuffif you keep seeing this NoMethodError (undefined method `[]' for :update:Symbol):    /vendor/plugins/princely/lib/pdf_helper.rb:11:in `render' when your controller is doing this:render :upda

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 13 November 2008

    It's a real shame that Twitter is used to bash Rails

    Even in the Rails community Twitter have put their foot in it several times and, IMHO, haven't got huge credibility. They moaned about not being able to share database connections and then a very able guru known as Dr Nic (he is a Ph D. - and a l

    Comments (1) . Tuesday, 12 August 2008

    Writing

    I finished my radio play off today and will be sending it to the BBC next week. Quite excited about it but not really holding out a huge amount of hope because there isn't a lot of point getting too worked up about stuff.I've been reading num

    Comments (0) . Saturday, 2 August 2008

    Men, women and society

    Way back in the mists of time men were just men. They had the dominant role in society, at least in theory, and women couldn't compete with them in the workplace because they had other things to worry about. In some ways this was less of an issue

    Comments (0) . Sunday, 27 July 2008