April 2010
8 posts
Get off my lawn!
I’m sure that I sound like an old man here, but backslashes are the only thing that should be used to escape characters. Under no circumstances should single quotes be used to escape single quotes… that’s crazy talk.
“Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense....”
– Douglas Adams - Why 42?
Keep in touch
I’ve never been a huge fan of blogs that ask more questions than they answer, which means that I’m not a fan of most startup/tech blogs. So many articles seem to be regurgitating a product release announcement followed by a couple of questions.
“This could be a great service, but can it scale?”
“This is a crowded market, why do these guys think they can...
Twitter's FlockDB goes Open Source →
Twitter is in the process of open sourcing their “distributed, fault-tolerant graph database.” Huge?
Redwood: Ruby Trees
mwunsch:
Redwood is my newest project: a simple implementation of a tree data structure in pure Ruby. It provides a few things:
The redwood command-line tool: a Ruby hack/rewrite of the Unix tree program.
A Module providing tree-like methods for your objects.
A Redwood::Node class as a basic implementation of tree creation.
A Redwood::FileNode class for representing directories in a...
