“Imagine for a moment that someone has established for you a very unusual bank account. Each morning he has agreed to deposit $86,400. At then at the end of each day whatever you have not spent will be forfeited. Would you not be diligent to see to it that every … Continue reading
I noticed an interesting side effect of the default behavior of Rails today. A fresh Rails 2.0.2 app includes a line in app/controllers/application.rb that looks like this: helper :all # include all helpers, all the time It looks innocuous enough, but this line can actually cause some unexpected behavior when … Continue reading
These people need to seriously rethink their approach to preschool. Why not just teach the kid at home for a year instead of freezing your tail off in line?
This is one of the reasons I’m doing mostly Rails consulting right now.
I was initially quite irritated with Apple for choosing to charge existing iPod Touch users like myself a $20 bill to get a hold of their January update. I’m still a bit ticked since it seems quite unfair to punish the early adopters like this, but by last Tuesday I … Continue reading
“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past.” — George Orwell
America’s education system is majorly messed up. The disturbing thing is the intentionality with which it’s being destroyed, coupled with the ignorance of most parents to what’s really going on: … American schooling was taken over, in the late 19th century, by statists enamored of the Prussian compulsion model, aiming … Continue reading
The problem I recently blogged about has been fixed in fixture_replacement2. Thanks, guys!
After contacting Rick with my patch, he offered to give me commit access to the project. I took him up on the offer, so the layout assertion is now in there. test_spec_on_rails is now on Git so unless you’re running Edge Rails you can’t use script/install to grab it. My … Continue reading
“It’s unwise to pay too much… but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money… that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to … Continue reading