Month: November 2008

First Direct Image of Multiple Exoplanets Orbiting a Star | Wired Science from Wired.comGEMINI RELEASES HISTORIC DISCOVERY IMAGE OF PLANETARY “FIRST FAMILY” Wow! This is an amazing and a serious blast from the past. It’s amazing because it’s the first time we have an image of an entire solar system. It’s a blast from the…

It looks like Bletchley Park may be saved for a while. Several grants are in the works to keep what I consider the birthplace of serious computing alive for future generations to learn about. In July, about 100 UK academics signed a letter to The Times condemning the neglect of Bletchley. That seemed to have…

In a previous series on using workling and starling for asychronous processing, I described how to setup background tasks. Here is a quick way to use this for emails without a lot of changes to your application. First, create lib/asynch_mail.rb: # Makes an actionmailer class queue its emails into a workling queue # instead of…