RubyConf 2008 shows what to expect of 1.9 (ex-YARV). They speak about ordered hashes, how stupid is that ?

Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on with those Ruby guys ? What’s next, unordered Arrays ? What the fuck !

http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/ruby-19-what-to-expect.html

Try not to barf

I just came back from a Rodrigo y Gabriela concert in Lyon, and I must say: What a show! These two are simply brilliant.

I could only get a few crappy iPhone-quality pictures but David got some videos (coming up!).

I didn’t take much as I was too excited to see them, and anyway the best way to see they rock is to check them out!

This link has been on the right for quite some time but I watched the video yesterday, and I just had to post it here. This video is brilliant, hi-tech, japanese, stunning…

Don’t forget to see it in HD, it’s really worth it!

# Awesome Patch
# This enables the '/' resource:
# map.resources :knickers, :as => ''
# 
# GET /blabla
# => KnickersController#show params = {:controller = 'knickers', :action => 'show, :id => 'blabla'}
module ActionController
  module Resources
    class Resource #:nodoc:
      def path
        @path ||= path_segment.blank? ? path_prefix.to_s : "#{path_prefix}/#{path_segment}"
      end
    end
  end
end


For those who haven’t seen the Wrath of The Lich King Trailer, here it is :

UPS Tracking, wow

Yesterday, I received an email from UPS saying :

“Your order was delivered today at 12:06. Thank you for using UPS”.

The order wasn’t quite here thow …

I was pretty suprised, so I went to see where my order was, using a great UPS tracking system …

I made my order on 10/26/2008, which is why my parcel was in Nottingham, UK a year ago …

Maybe UPS got budget cuts and they didn’t manage to buy a new SQL Server, making the old tracking IDs reusable after a year . Or just a silly developer …

Anyway, that was pretty funny, the parcel arrived safely this morning

It’s simply magnificient : Not Father’s Day

The recipe is to look, practice, practice, and … practice.

I love it when these two guys play, it just seems so easy for them to play like that, and it sometimes isn’t very encouraging

Oh btw, these guys play in drop A# (A# F A# D# G C), you’re gonna need fat strings :p

I’ve got the perfect solution:

def elegant_quit
  eval(['e', 'x', 'i', 't'].join)
end

In a nice IRB, the result is perfect

clabesse@barney:~ clabesse$ irb
>> def elegant_quit
>>   eval(['e', 'x', 'i', 't'].join)
>> end
=> nil
>> elegant_quit
clabesse@barney:~ clabesse$

Simply Brilliant.