I’m a UNIX guy.
After years spent on using a myriad of flavors (*BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X), I can hardly go back to Windows. For me, the experience of going back to Windows is very similar to the experience of using UNIX to most people. It’s all about familiarity.
One reason why I find UNIX [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Dotfiles Best Practice
Posted in cli on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Not Wrong: A Subset of the Truth
Posted in development on February 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was catching up on my RSS feeds today when I stumbled upon this video. If, like me, you push through the initial skepticism, you’ll probably walk away rather impressed and/or inspired.
These guys managed to turn consultancy on its head. They are doing work they are passionate about without any compromises.
Here’s their philosophy in [...]
Ruby Streams
Posted in ruby on February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about my business days problem some more. And this time I turned to Ruby, a language which I am becoming quite familiar with.
This is my naive implementation of streams in Ruby. Streams are thus functions. The actual class name is ‘Proc’, a lambda returns a ‘Proc’. Each call returns a new value.
def [...]
