August 2, 2010
“ From the project that divulged all your contact information without you knowing comes the edgiest fucking browser yet. Google Chrome Canary Build loves long walks on the beach, drinking its body weight in grain alcohol, and doing lines of coke off your command line.
Jason explains the latest Chrome build
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July 30, 2010
“ Our Tumblarity must be through the roof.
Mike comments on the popularity of his blog post.
July 29, 2010
  • Chad M.: they are saying that users failing to understand how to do certain things is intentional
July 27, 2010

Dan Croak explains distributed cron

  • Dan C.: cron's per machine, so the second a second app server is involved, do you have to lock somewhere in a shared location to avoid running the same job twice?
  • Dan C.: then if you have locks, you have to maintain those stale and stuck locks!
  • Dan C.: suddenly you're drowning in pidfiles and stealing pocketbooks in alleys
  • Dan C.: and you're asking, what became of my life?
“ So I have to get rid of my _snowman field on my User model?!
Mike Burns worries about rails 3
July 23, 2010

Jason suggests Mike launch a new training course

  • Mike B.: So he did things like confuse "less" and "fewer", and used adjectives when he should use adverbs?
  • Jason M.: "Mike Burns' 'Learn English and Ruby on Rails in 24 Hours" will be a hit!
July 22, 2010
“ The guy who wrote this produces ingenious garbage.
Joe Ferris on the quality of a gem
July 21, 2010
“ If thoughtbot were a pie, what kind of pie would it be?
Chad Mazzola
July 20, 2010
  • Mike B.: Maz pointed out that this office would benefit from a juicer.
  • Joe F.: I think we need better perimeter defenses
July 19, 2010
July 16, 2010

Jason realizes that "Google app inventor" is right up his alley

  • Jason M.: this sound perfect for me
  • Jason M.: "User testing has been done mainly in schools with groups that included sixth graders, high school girls, nursing students and university undergraduates who are not computer science majors."
July 15, 2010
  • Mike B.: Is there an RSpec method for comparing the equality of two Floats?
  • Mike B.: expected: 55.0, got: 55.0 (using ==)
  • Jon Y.: Mike's getting IEEE'd
July 12, 2010
  • Kyle: what does this mean? refusing to pull with rebase: your working tree is not up-to-date
  • Joe: it means you have local changes - you can't rebase if you have uncommitted modifications
  • Gus: you need to buy git some flowers and maybe it will not refuse you