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I am seeing signs in the sky that Sun is making a comeback.

• Textdrive is switching from FreeBSD to Solaris
• Rumors that ZFS might be ported to Mac OS X
• Tim Brays presence and statements on the RoR podcast from Canada on Rails
• Sun makes smart moves like supporting PostgreSQL

And not one of them is related to Java.

I will be speaking on the Rails Recipes Meetup here in Stockholm tomorrow. My topic will be on recipe 28 in Chads excellent book, how you can use with_scope to DRY your code.

Whilst I have looked quite deeply into the subject - it is quite small actually - there is one thing I have yet to find out. Chad mentions that you can use wrap your actions with scoping using a before_filter.

Thomas Looy: How Long is a Piece of String?: “- Use working software as the only measure of the progress on a project (no more 90% completed tasks);

• Measure using smaller sized tasks. Smaller tasks give you better measures than larger ones and will also give you a larger sampling of measures that can be used for meaningful statistical evaluations. Smaller tasks are also completed sooner and therefore give you measurements sooner that you can begin to use to extrapolate to a meaningful project complete date.”

(Via Planet TW.)

On behalf of my employer Valtech, I’ve written a piece on why I dislike SOAP, and favor REST. I originally wrote it in english, but the published version is in swedish.

For some REST preaching in hum-humpty-dum-dee-dum’ish go to

http://valtech.se/templates/JobSubPage.aspx?id=2582.

Update: As suggested by people more intelligent than myself, anchor tags really should have text inside them to be useful :).

Bitten by IE once again: “Side note: I talk a lot about the importance of Feedback, that tools should clearly identify problems and guide you to solutions. On a grading scale of A - F, IE would receive the grade take out back and put down like a rabid dog on this issue. And many others.”

(Via Tapestry and HiveMind.)

It seems that Sun is using James Gosling to spread FUD regarding any technology that competes with Java. He created Java, and he is a techie and techies have high standards and are always honest - right?

He came out slinging against Harmony a year ago, and now he is at it again with Ruby and PHP:

PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems, but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems.

By accident I stumbled upon the alt-command-O keyboard combination which allows you to move the current window to a given Desktop Manager virtual desktop - or to place it on all of them. Perhaps I haven’t looked hard enough, but I have not seen this mentioned in any documentation.

This was the only thing I thought was missing in Desktop Manager. I find it really useful for Adium and Skype.

Powerpoint corruption and lies Originally uploaded by mahnve.

I am so intensely mad right now. I have spent the afternoon working on a presentation I am to give at lunch time tomorrow.

To make it short: Powerpoint crashes, and takes my file with it in the fall. I can’t open it anymore.

I am redoing my presentation right now - in Keynote.

Coming up with the title of this entry cheered me up a little. You have to know your New Order to understand it.

Really funny: A list of facts about Chuck Norris

(Via Planet Ruby on Rails.)

Cameron states an excellent release numbering system, coincidentally the same as we used back in the days at Lecando:

• A ‘dot-zero’ release (like 3.0) is allowed to drop deprecated APIs, change an API in a manner that could break binary compatibility, or change the JDK version requirement.

• A ‘dot-X’ release (like 3.1) is only allowed to add features and APIs, but should not break any binary compatibility.

• A ‘dot-X-dot-Y’ release (like 3.0.1) is a service pack, designed to correct specific problems, and not to introduce new features.