RiskJobs is a German Headhunting website for the Risk Management domain. Applicants can fill out their profiles (tree structures) and companies can search: e.g. we need an operational risk expert with 3 years of experience that also knows X, Y and Z.

This adds one more app, the ever growing RealWorldUsage wiki page.

Well, actually skiing is good, too .. but I need sun!

 > Word is worse than a hog. It's a blabbermouth. I was once sent a business
 > proposal in Word format. I don't have Word, and Microsoft's free reader
 > was two versions old and never updated. To read the letter, I used a hex
 > editor, finding many interesting tidbits, including the printer on his
 > system, scraps of other documents to other people that indicated shady if
 > not criminal dealings, and the directory -- "Used Cars" -- that the letter
 > to me was composed in. I declined his offer to cooperate.
 >
 > Much of Word's bloat is "empty", but that means whatever was in RAM at
 > Store time.
 >
 > Jerry

Ive been playing with Avi Bryants continuation-based web framework Seaside, which is written in Smalltalk. Wow. Thats all I can say. After some recent work with Rails, I had come to admire the cleanliness of the frameworkeven if, on occasion, I had some complaints about short-cuts taken that need not be necessary. Compared to Seaside, Rails seems to me to be a jalopy. Dont get me wrong, its a seriously pimped out jalopy, but the easy with which one can build interactivity and modify it on the fly with Seaside is mind-blowing.

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NB: Dont take this as a slam of Rails, as its not. Rails is brilliantfor what it is. It takes the historical model of page interaction and data storage to new heights of simplicity. It doesnt, however, change how you view the web. Seaside does. Whether you use it for your next project, or not, its worth looking at, going through the tutorials, and allowing your mind to conceive of a web that simply behaves more naturally.

blog.amber.org/2005/11/23/she-sells-seashells-by-the-seaside/

With Seaside Avi wrote sth. interesting: dabbledb.com/about/.

I fid finally read this bestseller. As a big fan of genetic algorithms and swarm particle intelligence I simply loved the idea of the smart Yrrs. A fascinating book about intelligent aliens living on the ground of the sea who have enough of us human beings polluting the world. Highly recommended 900 pages of fun

Even when using a IDE it can be very handy to get into a irb session at any moment.

You need to install ruby-breakpoints

 require 'breakpoint'
 ..
 if m==0
    puts "m is 0"
    pp xs
    puts ys.to_yaml
    breakpoint
 end
 ..

Useful:

• use CTRL-D (Unix) or CTRL-Z (Windows) or exit to leave the breakpoint and continue running the program
• use exit! to terminate the program from within a breakpoint
• other interesting things to check out include: local_variables, instance_variables, caller, methods
• just type the name of your variable to check its value
• Note that you can enter any type of regular Ruby code into a breakpoint IRB shell. You can even hot patch your deployed code to fix a problem at run-time!

If you are developing a rails app, check out the wiki entry.

I take my break now. Off for yammie food.

www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/xstComplexScope.htm