Dr Wingnut

Day: August 30, 2006

  • RUM August

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    Last night I went to my second Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting at the Loring Park Dunn Brothers.  Seems like a nice bunch.  Here’s what I learned about:There was a discussion about using Simply RESTful in rails applications.  This technique uses all the transaction methods of the HTTP protocol instead of passing every CRUD action…

  • Unintended consequences

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    We had no idea that this [the Internet] would turn into a global and public infrastructure.Vinton Cerf

  • Donating those old PCs

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    You can call it any number of things: “equipment lifecycle”, “asset turnover” or even just “Hey, get rid of the crappy old thing already.”  But the upshot is the same, clearing desk and rack space of old equipment to make room for sparkling new hardware … Fortunately, there are more places to put that old…