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Sex sells ..   12 Feb 08
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Surprise, surprise .. :-). Men buy the DSL connections :-).

Took this picture in Hamburg at Hansenet (alice, Telekom Italia).

The model is Vanessa Hessler and she is playing in the latest Asterix movie.

Arc released   03 Feb 08
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Paul Graham released the first version of arc a new Lisp dialect.

arclanguage.org/

Gold, gold, gold ..   01 Feb 08
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As most of you know at the moment we are very bullish on gold.

Tom, Gold-Tom has decided to put some of his graphs online that he updates very frequently. Check it out

Tom even thinks that a $1,000 gold price and a $25 silver price is not too unlikely in the next few months.

Euruko 2008, Prague, March 29-30   31 Jan 08
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Euruko is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year it takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, on March 29th to 30th.

www.euruko2008.org/

Gentoo sysadmin with ruby skills wanted   21 Jan 08
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For Personifi we are searching for Gentoo guru.

Position is in available in Fort Worth, TX.

We are looking to hire a world-class Linux administrator and engineer to help We are developing a new class of optimization and targeting solutions that allow Internet and mobile services to increase advertising revenue, improve relevance, and increase traffic. Areas of work will include integrations of technology into advertising systems, content delivery systems, and mobile delivery systems. We are working on problems in a number of areas, including cutting-edge information retrieval algorithms, scalability issues related to dealing with huge amounts of data and a rapidly increasing user population, and a variety of novel personalization features. If you have a need to bring order to the chaotic web, contact us. Position will be a full time position and is an opportunity to get on board with a company at the ground floor.

JOB DESCRIPTION

  • Producing, integrating, operating & maintaining the Company Hardware, systems (including OS), Networks, applications, databases, SAN, and security systems.
  • Integrating Linux, WAN’s, LAN’s, routers and switches
  • Performing technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, cost and risk analysis, and supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems.
  • Total system product may include concept design, fabrication, testing, installation, and operation.
  • Performing engineering activities such as defining system requirements, developing technical solutions, performing systems functional analysis, conducting trade studies, and/or performing test and evaluation activities.
  • Ensuring project schedules and performance requirements are met.
  • Interacting with customers and functional peer groups.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 3-5 years minimum software development experience.
  • Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills.
  • Experience and understanding of computer networking systems, data storage and retrieval, computer operating systems…must have Gentoo experience, programming languages a plus (Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.).

COMMENT:

  • We don’t care about titles, certificates, etc. We care about real-life experience
  • If you never made your own kernel, etc. don’t apply.
  • Be ready to make our army of servers happy :-)

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@personifi.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Linux Engineer.

Clojure from Ruby   15 Jan 08
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A JVM-based Lisp interacting with JRuby.

Robin Bhattacharyya posted this on Jan 13 to clojure@googlegroups.com

 I was playing with JRuby and wondered how hard it would be to consume
 Clojure from JRuby.

 It turns out that it was not hard at all.

 For anyone interested, I attached a working interface.

 Robin

groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/41e811c158d7881f/b31dc456fb5280ed?lnk=gst&q=JRuby#b31dc456fb5280ed

My new mysites blog!   31 Dec 07
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I am experimenting a bit with our latest service .. the blog. Written by Mike in one hour, still lacking many features, but hey, we want to be on the cutting edge of disaster :-).

mysites blog

Shiny polar cloud   11 Dec 07
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I came across this great article on Slashdot.

Rack talk by Christian Neukirchen   06 Dec 07
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We use rack at personifi. Highly recommended simple elegant and fast!

Developing general web frameworks and frameworkless web applications is difficult because lots of different ways to connect to web servers need to be implemented. Since Ruby is popular for writing web applications, we try to address this problem by proposing a lightweight abstraction mapping HTTP requests onto a simple Ruby API. This makes it possible to combine all kinds of web servers with different web applications without further change. Furthermore, our solution enables new functionality by combining and composing web applications, as well as better testability. Talk given at the European Ruby Conference (Euruko) 2007.

Slides chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2007/chneukirchen-euruko2007-introducing-rack.pdf

Article chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2007/neukirchen07introducingrack.pdf

Dryad talk   16 Nov 07
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Dryad is the Microsoft copy from map-reduce.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

Seuss technical writing   28 Sep 07
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Enjoy:

web.mit.edu/adorai/www/seuss-technical-writing.html

Yoko Kanno piano solo cowboy bebop   16 Sep 07
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Enjoy :-)

Euruko: 5th European ruby conference, Vienna, Nov 10-11   12 Sep 07
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I am very happy to announce Euruko 2007 in Vienna. A big thanks to Vienna university that gave us rooms for free! I wish the German universities would do that, too.

Please add yourself to the wiki. The pages are still not yet updated: www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/europeRuby/tiki.cgi?c=v&p=Euruko07

See you all here!

The original announcement by Stephan Kaemper

 Hi all,

 after a few weeks of struggling to find a location we finally found a
 place. In fact we also found a new date.
 Sorry for any inconveniences all this back and forth may have caused.

 Euruko 2007 will be located in Vienna, Austia on Saturday & Sunday
 10th and 11th November 2007.

 As before this will also be announced at http://phvalues.wordpress.com
 as well as the Euruko wiki (which we're using  this year, too). The wiki
 is at http://www.euruko.com

 If you're planning to attend or to give a presentation, please use
 the wiki to register and announce your presentation.

 See you in Vienna - or may be in Berlin next week

 Stephan

DE: AutopolicenPool -- Gemeinsam guenstiger versrichern   10 Sep 07
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Autopolicenpool ist eine Railsanwendung die euch zu einer billigeren Autoversicherung verhilft. Viel Spass!

www.autopolicenpool.de

Hal Fulton on the Future of Ruby   09 Sep 07
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Slides of Hal Fulton’s talk in Austin. Nice pics :-)

rubyhacker.com/lsrc/

Amazing photo from Cairo   03 Sep 07
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Found via digg on flickr. One can see the pyramids in the background.

the link: bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=436684787&bg=white

Oh yeah :-).   03 Sep 07
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.. on the crazyness of the Microsoft WGA anti-piracy scheme.

ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070901

Ferret, utf-8   02 Sep 07
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Ben Krause posted this to ferret-talk.
 ENV['LC_CTYPE'] = 'en_US.UTF-8'
 Ferret.locale = "en_US.UTF-8"

 see http://bugs.omdb.org/browser/trunk/config/environment.rb

 searching for utf-8 works great, i've indexed characters
 in german, english, asian languages, hebrew and other..

Got API.com   29 Aug 07
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Thanks to Hal for passing this useful link: gotapi.com

It’s one of the few links that made it into the expensive real estate of my browser toolbar.

Bariloche webcam   14 Aug 07
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It snowed last night.

 

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