You might want to tell that to Basecamp, 43 Things, and Tada Lists, since they obviously have no idea that Rails isn't good for anything of that magnitude. Might also mention it to all the thousands of people that use those sites, daily, and to the handful of developers who built and deployed those sites in a fraction of the time and cost of other web solutions.
I will agree here--it was something of a pain to get PCMCIA wireless working with the 2.4 kernels under Linux. However, with the 2.6.x kernels, it's a no-brainer. It worked almost out-of-the-box, for me. (Just make sure you've configured your kernel properly...and perhaps that statement just negated my previous one, but configuring the kernel is the kind of thing that Gentoo is all about.)
Well, there's Googlism -- just type in a name or a place it does a Google search, extracting the relevant results to give a summary of what was returned. Quite amusing, really.
I'm already proficient in Ruby, and therefore learned nothing new from the Poignant Guide, but it was an amusing read nonetheless. I greatly enjoyed it, and have already recommended it to my coworkers and my wife. Even if you don't like Ruby, the available chapters are worth reading. I'm looking forward to the completion of the remainder of the book.
First, a disclaimer: I haven't used Python for about a year and a half, and so may be out of touch with the most recent developments in the language. I am writing the following NOT to bash Python or to invite flames, merely to explain what I feel to be weaknesses of Python. If someone can counter them rationally, please do so.
That said, I learned, wrote in, and loved Python for a few months. However, the whole whitespace issue eventually drove me away from Python; some people like it, I didn't.
Second, I disliked how you had to explicitly pass "this" as a parameter to each method. It seemed very NON-object-oriented, and in a language that claimed to be OO, I found it to be a glaring discrepancy.
Lastly, I found the regular expression handling in Python to be rather inconvenient. I much prefer the way Perl and Ruby do it (though there isn't much else I prefer about Perl).
Other than those points, there were many things I liked about Python. Unfortunately, I can't remember enough of the language to say what they were, although it seems that operator overloading was one of them.
My wife taught an English writing course for several years (to non-native speakers) and used some Perl scripts I wrote for her to do things like forums (where the students were required to participate in online discussions about topics of interest to them) and a "random topic generator" (where a topic like what would appear on the TOEFL would pop up, and they had 30 minutes to write an essay on it). My wife also did the old-fashioned thing and had the students turn in papers, but she would type them up and post them online so that the students could see how each other did. She must have done something right, 'cause the students always loved her class.
I suppose what I'm recommending are forums. Never really used weblogs, so I can't comment on that.
As a constituent of Sen. Hatch, I must say that this is the first time for me that I have been so severely disappointed in his leadership. I have just finished drafting an email to his office describing my feelings; according to his site, I can expect an email back from him, since I am a resident of Utah... don't know if I should hold my breath waiting for it, though...
This proposal has serious flaws, as so many people have already pointed out. Assuming it was even possible to enforce, it is a violent, destructive means of enforcing laws against non-violent, non-destructive activities. Just think where the world would be if more governments started following that policy of law enforcement!
Insurrection was definately one of the best of the ST movies. In an age when movies are steadily moving more and more towards gratuitous sex, violence, and language, Insurrection was refreshingly clean. It had humor, a clean romance, an intriguing premise, and a great mystery with a surprise ending. Call me a prude, or a far-left-winger, but IMO we need more movies like Insurrection -- PG-13 and R ratings are FAR too predominant right now, and I think that reflects negatively on the direction our society is taking.
I honestly hope that Nemesis follows the example of Insurrection, rather than choosing the "easy" path and going PG-13 or (gasp!) R. It is almost always nothing less than laziness on the part of the director if they claim a given movie can't be rated PG. Good scripting, directing, and editing can always result in a winning PG movie -- look at the Star Wars films if you don't believe me.
There was an excellent book written by John Barnes and Buzz Aldrin, called Encounter with Tiber. It was, in large part, a platform for Barnes and Aldrin to present methods in which today's technology could take people into orbit relatively inexpensively. I'm excited to see if Bigelow's space station comes to pass, because it might finally give commercial entities a reason to research and construct some decent ground-to-orbit ships.
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Consider Hieraki, or RForum, or any of the other projects listed at the bottom of The Ruby-on-Rails docs page.
You might want to tell that to Basecamp, 43 Things, and Tada Lists, since they obviously have no idea that Rails isn't good for anything of that magnitude. Might also mention it to all the thousands of people that use those sites, daily, and to the handful of developers who built and deployed those sites in a fraction of the time and cost of other web solutions.
Then again, maybe you shouldn't...
I will agree here--it was something of a pain to get PCMCIA wireless working with the 2.4 kernels under Linux. However, with the 2.6.x kernels, it's a no-brainer. It worked almost out-of-the-box, for me. (Just make sure you've configured your kernel properly...and perhaps that statement just negated my previous one, but configuring the kernel is the kind of thing that Gentoo is all about.)
Well, there's Googlism -- just type in a name or a place it does a Google search, extracting the relevant results to give a summary of what was returned. Quite amusing, really.
I'm already proficient in Ruby, and therefore learned nothing new from the Poignant Guide, but it was an amusing read nonetheless. I greatly enjoyed it, and have already recommended it to my coworkers and my wife. Even if you don't like Ruby, the available chapters are worth reading. I'm looking forward to the completion of the remainder of the book.
First, a disclaimer: I haven't used Python for about a year and a half, and so may be out of touch with the most recent developments in the language. I am writing the following NOT to bash Python or to invite flames, merely to explain what I feel to be weaknesses of Python. If someone can counter them rationally, please do so.
That said, I learned, wrote in, and loved Python for a few months. However, the whole whitespace issue eventually drove me away from Python; some people like it, I didn't.
Second, I disliked how you had to explicitly pass "this" as a parameter to each method. It seemed very NON-object-oriented, and in a language that claimed to be OO, I found it to be a glaring discrepancy.
Lastly, I found the regular expression handling in Python to be rather inconvenient. I much prefer the way Perl and Ruby do it (though there isn't much else I prefer about Perl).
Other than those points, there were many things I liked about Python. Unfortunately, I can't remember enough of the language to say what they were, although it seems that operator overloading was one of them.
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My wife taught an English writing course for several years (to non-native speakers) and used some Perl scripts I wrote for her to do things like forums (where the students were required to participate in online discussions about topics of interest to them) and a "random topic generator" (where a topic like what would appear on the TOEFL would pop up, and they had 30 minutes to write an essay on it). My wife also did the old-fashioned thing and had the students turn in papers, but she would type them up and post them online so that the students could see how each other did. She must have done something right, 'cause the students always loved her class.
I suppose what I'm recommending are forums. Never really used weblogs, so I can't comment on that.
As a constituent of Sen. Hatch, I must say that this is the first time for me that I have been so severely disappointed in his leadership. I have just finished drafting an email to his office describing my feelings; according to his site, I can expect an email back from him, since I am a resident of Utah... don't know if I should hold my breath waiting for it, though...
This proposal has serious flaws, as so many people have already pointed out. Assuming it was even possible to enforce, it is a violent, destructive means of enforcing laws against non-violent, non-destructive activities. Just think where the world would be if more governments started following that policy of law enforcement!
Insurrection was definately one of the best of the ST movies. In an age when movies are steadily moving more and more towards gratuitous sex, violence, and language, Insurrection was refreshingly clean. It had humor, a clean romance, an intriguing premise, and a great mystery with a surprise ending. Call me a prude, or a far-left-winger, but IMO we need more movies like Insurrection -- PG-13 and R ratings are FAR too predominant right now, and I think that reflects negatively on the direction our society is taking.
I honestly hope that Nemesis follows the example of Insurrection, rather than choosing the "easy" path and going PG-13 or (gasp!) R. It is almost always nothing less than laziness on the part of the director if they claim a given movie can't be rated PG. Good scripting, directing, and editing can always result in a winning PG movie -- look at the Star Wars films if you don't believe me.
My 2 cents...
There was an excellent book written by John Barnes and Buzz Aldrin, called Encounter with Tiber. It was, in large part, a platform for Barnes and Aldrin to present methods in which today's technology could take people into orbit relatively inexpensively. I'm excited to see if Bigelow's space station comes to pass, because it might finally give commercial entities a reason to research and construct some decent ground-to-orbit ships.