Sanctus Real – Everything About You
Be my light in this darkened room…
Questions fade when you invade
You chase all my fears away
With your love in my atmosphere
All confusion disappears
And nothing but your truth remains
Peggy Noonan got me thinking about bubbleheads, and epistemological self awareness.
This video is trying to sell something, but I’m thinking about the lessons it teaches on how to break out of your bubble.
Scooby-Do’s way of saying “Ruby Lovers Roundup”… A quick review of recent happenings (and writings) in the Ruby development community… and what a fun round up it is! The ruby rock stars are pushing agile development in sunny Florida … and the sunny Java guy is resting from Java to talk about Ruby RSpec RESTing and testing..
Tim Bray took a break from his other stuff to run more RSpec tests. Is he RESTing or testing, or both at the same time? He’s misusing RSpec (like Andy McKee abuses the guitar) — and that kind of innovation could lead to a cool new invention — but only if he plays with it long enough to discover something new and interesting.
Obie Fernandez is pushing paired programming the HashRocket way. Looks like they are having fun with it, and getting some good results. True believers in agile programming methods are already doing this, and everyone else is watching it closely, or closing their eyes, and trying to ignore it with one pragmatic eye still open.
David H. Hansson was not really “thinking out loud”, but he recently twittered:
getdropbox.com is exactly what I need to complete the two computer conundrum. Great execution. Can’t wait to be able to pay for it.
DHH also released Rails 2.1.1 — with lots of little bug fixes.
Dave Thomas is having fun with procs in Ruby 1.9
Michael Galpin talked about rapid prototyping with Apache Derby and JRuby on Rails over on IBM developerworks.
Did I mention that JRuby 1.1.4 was released? – with a 2-20x increase in speed for most features
John Lam (the Microsoft IronRuby guy) helps you connect the dots and solve the really big problems in this video captured at the last RubyFringe.
Nick Sieger talks about jazzing things up with JRuby in this InfoQ video interview.
… and from the awesome fresh news department … enjoy the awesome fresh rails documentation.
This unique YouTube video, by Candy Spilner and Allan Rubin, captures some interesting aspects of epistemology, conversation, language, art and music. The video may seem pointless, even stupid — at first glance.
Look closer. Observe carefully.
It depicts the babbling bubbleheads who (having no deep understanding of the shortness and fragility of life) continue talking about nothing important — until suddenly (pop) — life is over.
When was the last time you had a deep conversation about the meaning (and purpose) of life — with someone you love? Pop! Too late — your life is over. Babble, babble, babble … bloop! It mocks and ridicules post-modern foolishness, babbling bloggers, pontificating political pundits, promise-breaking politicians, TV talking-heads, shameless gossiping twitter-heads, and the continuing cacophony of all our careless conversations. In the babbling bubbleheads we see with penetrating perception – a reflection of ourselves.