Tech recruitment: how not to do it
This lesson comes to you courtesy of one Beau Gould of the somewhat fly-by-night seeming Open Source Staffing, who don’t even have a website, just an off-domain blog.
Getting Started with iOS Development using Sinatra on Heroku / Cedar
Heroku’s spark doc for iOS apps interfacing with Heroku-powered Sinatra web services.
A quantum connection between light and motion
Physicists have demonstrated a system in which light is used to control the motion of an object that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye at the level where quantum mechanics governs its behavior.
As the old Chinese curse warns, we are living in interesting times.
silly. little. thing.
But very welcome! Try it. You just might like it…
The Truth About Sleep & Productivity
Working overtime doesn’t increase your output. It makes you stupid.
Well I coulda told you that… I know from personal experience at several ‘death march’ start-ups. Never again.
Twitter Commits Social Suicide
Big. Mistake. Twitter.
From the Forbes article:
In what can only have been a fit of corporate insanity, Twitter announced that it has the ability to filter tweets to conform to the demands of various countries.
Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says
Technology giant IBM estimates that by 2015, one trillion devices will be internet-connected.
Wow.
Hyde, a Python-powered static site generator
Who says I don’t have love for Python? Not you, of course…
Episode 0.6.6 - RVM and BDSM with Wayne Seguin
Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects.
This week’s episode is brought to you by Harvest.
Items mentioned in the show:
- Look us up at LSRC V next week.
- Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI.
- Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM.
- RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
- BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI).
- Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0
- Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM.
- Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM.
- Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases.
- Bundler now plays nice with RVM.
- Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack.
