Charles Nutter:It is a glorious day in JRuby-land, for the compiler is now complete.
That is some cool stuff. I think it is very cool that while a lot of people are pitting Java and Ruby against one another, that there are other people making an effort to bring them together.
In related news, I’m taking [...]

It is crap like this that makes Ruby developers and advocates look a like a bunch of Art School wannabe cool kids. I don’t really get the point. Using baseless generalizations doesn’t make your point, it just makes you look like you are trying to be smarter than you actually are.
I like Ruby, [...]

Yates and Hacking are Passing You© Bert Lamb
I spent the past weekend camping out in the middle of a race track in Virginia for my now annual trip to the AMA Superbike races at Virginia International Raceway. It is always a nice time, and no one ever really knows how to react when I [...]

Russell Beattie:
Surprisingly it was on MySpaceTV.com rather than YouTube… which is the first time I’ve actually used the site – looks like YouTube, but the quality is nicer. No embed code though, so I just viewed source and pasted it in above, we’ll have to see if it plays.
It plays alright, it plays instantly, without [...]

Run Stella Run
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One of the concerns I had about working from home was weight gain. In order to combat this I’ve taken up a running routine. I’m using the Cool Running Couch-to-5K Program, and I’m now in week 7, so I’m doing pretty well. I haven’t really lost any weight, [...]

Drag The Blue Line
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Bert Lamb

Google has just flipped the switch on some very cool code on the Google Maps site. You can now click any point on a route between two places and drag the route to add an intermediate stop on the route. This solves the problem I have been having when [...]

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On June 2nd, Ashley and I got married. The wedding was beautiful and wonderful, and it wasn’t just me saying that.
The weather cooperated and the rain held off for the ceremony. Then it rained a little which cooled things off perfectly for the bonfire.
We received many compliments on the wedding and [...]

Stress
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David Friel

While we are quite excited about our pending move to Boston, it is at the same time quite stressful. The process of selling my house has been going well, we’re in the inspection repairs stage and the contractor is dicking me around a little. I’ve got to sell some things we won’t [...]

Last week was quite a week for Ashley and me. Wednesday night I signed a contract for a full price offer on my house, and then on Thursday we found out where we will be moving to later this year for Ashley to start her residency! She got her first choice and we’ll [...]

I’ve watched ER for a long time, and I’ve heard of “The Match” before, but were I not about to marry a doctor I don’t think I would have known about all that really goes into this match process.
So for basically all of December and most of January, Ashley and I were on our own [...]