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O'Reilly's first Rails book premieres in beta form. O’Reilly has launched their Rough Cuts series with Ruby on Rails: Up and running as one of the first titles leading the charge. Rough Cuts is O’Reilly’s version of Beta Books or Early Access and gives you access to the content while it’s still being written. Ruby… Continue reading O'Reilly's first Rails book premieres in beta form

Why Rails?. When I moved my blog to Rails from Zope, I was asked why. This is a brief explanation. [Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times]

2½ months later, Epstein rejoining Sox. Two-and-a-half months after Theo Epstein left the Red Sox, certain that his heart and soul were no longer fully invested in the job of general manager, the Sox last night announced that the 32-year-old Brookline native will be returning to the organization as soon as next week. [Boston Globe… Continue reading 2½ months later, Epstein rejoining Sox

Quick update on applications hosting. Yesterday at Warren Noronha's suggestion I signed up with Quantact for a 128MB VPS account at $25/mth. That's roughly twice what I am paying TextDrive for shared hosting with them. So far I'm pretty impressed with Tim (CEO of Quantact) and how he operates. Everything was setup very smoothly even… Continue reading Warren Noronha's

House Proud: For the 'Orchid' Lady, a Design Hothouse. The best-selling author Susan Orlean wanted a family retreat, a house with surprising details and elements of Japanese architecture. By ELAINE LOUIE. [NYT > Books]

Conduct unbecoming of a President. Ours is a government of limited power. We learn in elementary school the concept of checks and balances. Those checks do not vanish in wartime; the President's role as Commander in Chief does not swallow up Congress's powers or the Bill of Rights. Given the framers' skepticism about executive power… Continue reading Conduct unbecoming of a President

The 5 People I Hope Like Hell to Meet in Heaven. As I've written before, I don't pester celebrities. There aren't enough days in a life for everyone to be a friend to everyone else, and as much as I'd like to hang out with people like Niklaus Wirth or Garry Wills, it isn't gonna… Continue reading The 5 People I Hope Like Hell to Meet in Heaven

Mark debunks Steven Gibson's claims that WMF issue is a backdoor. Over at SysInternals, Mark has debunked Steve Gibson's theory that Microsoft intentiionally placed a backdoor in WMF. His results conclude: In my opinion the backdoor is one caused by a security flaw and not one made for subterfuge. You can read Mark's analysis here.… Continue reading Mark debunks Steven Gibson's claims that WMF issue is a backdoor

Where are the .6 releases?. I hope to have the long incubated Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6 releases out next week. The software has been ready for a while now, the hold up has been finding 2 days to do all the release related stuff: set up the demos, the free trials and upgrade… Continue reading Where are the .6 releases?

Liberty Increases Security. From the Scientific American essay “Murdercide: Science unravels the myth of suicide bombers“: Another method [of reducing terrorism], says Princeton University economist Alan B. Krueger, is to increase the civil liberties of the countries that breed terrorist groups. In an analysis of State Department data on terrorism, Krueger discovered that “countries like… Continue reading Liberty Increases Security