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  1. http://bit.ly/18Q3pU a rails war stories video worth watching.
  2. http://bit.ly/RV7DZ : who knew ford once made a nuclear car?
  3. 2 Days trying to eat an elephant in one go... now lets try little bites
  4. Got the keys to my new house today. (Renting in Glen Waverley)
  5. Industry Misinterpretations: A podcast about Smalltalk. http://tinyurl.com/oyyxp5
  6. "It's not difficult you just have to Google it and do some code gymnastics" "are we talking Olympic level?" - overheard on WPF databinding.
  7. Why does 'config.gem "scruffy"' hose my app in production even though I have scruffy in my /vendor/gems/scruffy-0.2.5 folder?
  8. RT @Steve_Hayes: Retweet this if you disagree w Twitter's decision to hide replies to ppl you don't follow. #fixreplies (via @tirsen)
  9. @Steve_Hayes Traceabilty is required in regulated environments
  10. RT @Steve_Hayes: RT @modaldialog: RT @jasonfried: Never add an option when an opinion will suffice. (via @jamis)
  11. @Steve_Hayes Do you still code in Smalltalk?
  12. Add features to cucumber to factor out duplication in example tables and it becomes a rules engine.. compare it to decision tables .
  13. Javascript in 10 Minutes.. http://bit.ly/BH4Go
  14. find *.mp3 | ruby -e 'while(x=gets.chomp) do `mp3faster \"#{x}\"`;end ' -- all your mp3 in 2/3rds of the time [see my last link mp3faster]
  15. http://xkcd.com/570/#
  16. http://tinyurl.com/dbeeod - a good intro to roles based design.
  17. Great intro to rules engines... http://openrules.com/docs/C...
  18. check http://tokyocabinet.sourcef... for a hashtable/b+ tree/fixed length array based database with ruby bindings.
  19. Growl for windows! Everyone should integrate with this.
  20. http://blog.mattwynne.net/2... dry up your cucumber steps