Month: July 2007

Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles – Salon I have to admit, I never thought of checkers as being a game that needed to be solved — never mind that it would take 18 years and several CPUs to do it. Now, it’s time to solve chess, but that might take a while. Checkers…

I came across this excellent post on Philipp Keller’s blog: Tag History and Gartner’s Hype Cycles. I agree with Philipp’s take that we seem to be in the area of disillusionment. The question remains, however, whether tagging really is on the rise in the way that most of us expect. Don’t get me wrong, I’m…

Ruby is an amazingly productive language, and Rails is an awesome framework. However, you need to be aware of what you are getting into. There are lot’s of items that make life difficult for your web server. Some of the biggest culprits are has_one, has_many, etc. They are so powerful, but use them wrong and…

Corunet. El blog – Automatic CSS: The stylizator I came across this the other day. It’s a nice trick to get an idea how others are handling their CSS.