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Altered Carbon   29 Sep 06
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Altered Carbon is a highly recommended SF-book.

Scientific development has always learnt a lot from SF. Maybe boody-sleeving will be next.

Download videos from youTube, Google, etc.   28 Sep 06
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Smart firefox plugin.

Average Salary of Lisp Jobs is greater than that of Java, C# or Ruby coders   28 Sep 06
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Interesting statistic. A Lisp coder earns on average $85k, while a Java-guy $76k. I wonder whether that statistic would change if one takes out the age-factor. :-)

Let’s admit it, Lisp coders are on average very smart, but so are the early ruby adapters .. and they get only on average $60k. Sniff ..

Update on Euruko06   27 Sep 06
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Short update, before the conference on Nov 4 and 5.

  • We are still evaluating whether we should get a bigger room. Sofar we have about 30 people that confirmed that they will show up. We have space for 50 people and might simple close the conference registration once we are fully booked and overbooked by 5% like these airline companies.
  • O’Reilly might give a free book to every speaker. Please add to the wiki what book you want. I will send off our wish list o O’Reilly around Oct 5.
  • Please put titles of your talks in the wiki, so that some structure will emerge. In the worst case we do a "planing-game" at the start of the conference and quickly produce the program as we did last year.
  • Get-Togethers will be announced in the wiki till Friday this week.

Looking forward to see you all again this year!

Towards a more efficient computing infrastructure   27 Sep 06
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Interesting Google blog entry

What is your favourite "programming musiuc" (non-technical question)   27 Sep 06
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I came across this insane Dilbert-like posting in the comp.lang.java.programmer group.

> Hi all,

 > When you are programming, what kind of music or which song you love to
 > hear? Is it classic music, piano, or pop music? Is it by male singer or
 > by female singer?

 I don't listen to music as such; I listen to an 8-second mp3-loop of my
 manager screeching, puce-faced, at the top voice, "WTF is taking you so
 long?!?! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! WTF AM I PAYING YOUR
 SALARY FOR?!?! RELEASE THE F%#KING CODE, YOUR WORTHLESS, DISGUSTING,
 INTOLERABLE PIECE OF S@&T!!!"

 > I think sometime hearing music would be helpful in
 > our productivity, right?

 I find that this mp3-loop truly helps <TWITCH> my productivity. I love
 <TWITCH> my manager, and dream of him <TWITCH><TWITCH><releases safety>
 often ...

 > Regards,
 > Sam Huang
 .ed

Tyger - a great short film   23 Sep 06
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A great short film about William Blake’s poem "The Tyger".

www.guilherme.tv/tyger

Ericsson has a Ruby community   15 Sep 06
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Hey, from the company that did "buy" Erlang .. another nice news: They have a ruby community.

Small Teams Make Better Software   30 Aug 06
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I saw that a small team of good people seemed to outperform the most disciplined process, toolset, or philosophy. A bad team usually failed to produce a good result, regardless of what magic process was applied. Article

European Ruby Conference, Euruko 06   27 Aug 06
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wiki

 Euruko06, the European Ruby Conference,
 will be in Munich, November 4 and 5, 2006.

 ******************************************
 * Conference wiki: http://www.euruko.com *
 ******************************************

 This year, we'll meet in a hotel in Munich,
 locations are being searched for. If you know
 of a good place, let us know, too.

 The conference will begin at 10 AM on Saturday and
 end sometime on Sunday.

 ******************************************
 * matz has offered to give us a          *
 * Skype video message.                   *
 ******************************************

 Audience:      Everybody interested in Ruby is most welcome!
 Fee:           minimal fee of 20 EUR, T-Shirts will be extra
                (cash in small unmarked bills)
 Registration:  wiki at http://www.euruko.com, follow the link
                to the Visitors' Page.

 Talks:         If you want to give a talk, please put down
                topic (an short description) on the wiki, too.

 ******************************************
 * Design the conference T-Shirt          *
 * or I'll do it again ...                *
 ******************************************

 If you have questions drop us a note at
 euruk...@euruko.com

 See you in Munich,

 

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