Month: July 2005

The Mediocre Emergency. Let's say you work at eBay. Your site goes down. How many people will drop what they are doing and figure out how to get it back up and running? Everyone from PR to server guys will be on the case. Or let's say you work at Aetna. A fire rips through… Continue reading The Mediocre Emergency

A Lack of Imagination Richard Forno : Contrary to America's infatuation with instant gratification, protective imagination is not quickly built, funded, or enacted. It takes years to inculcate such a mindset brought about by outside the box, unconventional, and daring thinking from folks with expertise and years of firsthand knowledge in areas far beyond security… Continue reading A Lack of Imagination

Eric covers competitive strategy for ISVs. Frans Bouma: If you're an ISV, want to become one, or just want something really valuable to read, just go over to Eric Sink's latest entry. Covers competitive strategy for ISVs. I enjoy Eric's writings too. Great stuff.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

An interview about Basecamp, Backpack, Getting Real, and more at TomPeters.com. Tom Peters posted a long interview with me about Basecamp, Backpack, our “Getting Real” philosophy of doing big things with small teams, among other things. Thanks to Erik Hansen for conducting the interview and to Cathy Mosca for handing the details.  [Signal vs. Noise]

Feeling the slowdown blues after going 0.13?. It’s somewhat ironic that we heralded Rails 0.13 as being a great move forward for the performance of Rails and then half the threads on the mailing list is about “Rails is sLOOOW!”. We’ve found the problems, though. The first was with the MySQL/Ruby bindings, which called GC.start… Continue reading Feeling the slowdown blues after going 0.13?

Stretch of tunnel called full of defects. An inspection by Big Dig officials has found a 1,500-foot stretch of the tunnel near the North End to be the most problem-plagued area of the project, with weaknesses in the tunnel walls that exceed even those in the section of tunnel that erupted in a gushing leak… Continue reading Stretch of tunnel called full of defects

London Transport Bombings. I am on vacation today and this weekend, and won't be able to read about the London Transport bombings in depth until Monday. For now I would just like to express my sympathy and condolences to those directly affected, and the good people of London, England, Europe, and the world. Targeting innocents… Continue reading London Transport Bombings

Agile Web Development with Rails leaves beta. Our very first book on Rails is leaving beta and is in the process of going into print. Agile Web Development with Rails is now ready in its final form as a PDF and it’ll be ready in paper in time for OSCON. That’s pretty damn rocking! And… Continue reading Agile Web Development with Rails leaves beta

Rails 0.13: 225+ features/fixes in 75 days!. After the longest gap between releases since Rails was made public and after more than 225 fixes and new features, the final major release before the 1.0 milestone has arrived. We’ve basically put in three new features or fixes every single day for the past 75 days. But… Continue reading Rails 0.13: 225+ features/fixes in 75 days!

Olympic Committee Chooses London for 2012 Summer Games. London snatched the 2012 Olympics from Paris today. New York was eliminated in the second round of voting. By LYNN ZINSER. [NYT > Home Page]