BloggEd

If you are about to start a new Ruby / Ruby on Rails project on Windows environment, you should probably reconsider your options. I have encountered many Windows-related problems during the development of a large, Windows/Ruby project—problems I doubt would have existed... Read more »

Because I’m rather an enthusiastic of a person, I use to ramble on many things, ideas and any stuff in general I’m happy to fiddle with. So I talk a lot about gadgets – mostly of those I wish I had –... Read more »

A while ago I discussed the subject of software development skills with my friend. The discussion revolved around the question of how much weight to put on specific technological skills versus general skills related to software design, algorithms, architecture and stuff. Well,... Read more »

I just updated mephisto to most recent trunk snapshot. Some features may be missing for a while. Read more »

Consider you are reading a chunk of code, and you see a method mock_person('jack', 1, 24, 72, 180) You’ll probably wonder what the parameters are. As you know, you should avoid using magic constants in your code; they make it less readable,... Read more »

I just wrote about an ideal language, which means that there are now two articles in the series you can skip over, not wanting to know the kinds of stuff I day dream about (excluding the obvious light saber part, of which... Read more »

From the human (programmer) point of view, all computer languages suck. It’s not the fault of their designers; creating a successful programming language is very difficult, as different tasks call for different kinds of tools. By definition, a general-purpose language will be... Read more »

I’m quite annoyed by the current model of telemarketing. Many consider it even more frustrating than e-mail junk, yet here in Finland, in order to not receive any telemarketing phone calls you have to call certain number every three(?) years. The call... Read more »

Sorry, instead of my usual rants or blurbs about intricacies of programming I thought to rant about the state of our church. It’s interesting - no, sad really - how those among the clergy who most clearly indicate actual belief in the... Read more »

Ok, it’s somewhat of an overstatement, but it exceeded the threshold of creating a blog about it (threshold being few inches above that of writing about the lint I find in my navel every now and then). You know, I hate walking.... Read more »

Both the professional artists and craftsmen practice a lot. At least all of the professionals whose craft requires creativity or precision of movement. This is so obvious an observation that the willingness for you to slap me around with a wet, particular... Read more »

There are two kinds of professional programmers: those who have learned of Steve Yegge ’s rants and those who should. If you really don’t know who he is, let me put it short: Steve Yegge is a Googlean programmer and an überprolific... Read more »

Don’t you just hate it when you have gazillion of web accounts (bank, newspapers, forums, gaming systems, post office..) Well, if you’ve up to stuff you know of OpenID which allows you to use single signin system with the systems that support... Read more »

See my political compass. Odd. I thought I’d be more authoritarian and right-winged, but the questions were chosen such that I appear more liberal than I (and maybe some of my friends as well :) thought. Read more »

Do you know the (oddly) funny feeling of having understood something, only to understand later that you didn’t understand it the last time, though some of the stuff you understood was correct, AND having felt that way many times about the same... Read more »