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  1. Had a great coding session with @billrobertson42 on The Ruby Racer. We're making steady progress towards an alpha release. 3:06 AM Dec 14th from Tweetie
  2. damn you people who've diluted the word "Now" by overusing it as a sentential segue! I have a legitimate usage but you've killed it! 12:54 AM Dec 14th from Tweetie
  3. @sanityinc @darrenhobbs Yep. exceptions are (generally) best handled at the top of a call stack. Checking encourages the opposite. 1:03 PM Dec 13th from Tweetie in reply to sanityinc
  4. @darrenhobbs The alternative? Trust that I'm a big boy and can decide for myself when and where I catch exceptions. 12:29 PM Dec 13th from Tweetie in reply to darrenhobbs
  5. Every time I have to catch some checked exception I feel like the API designer hurled their feces all over my code. 11:32 AM Dec 13th from Tweetie
  6. @robertbrook me neither, but the internets are a big place. JavaScript must have been the deciding factor(for) in at least one case. 2:03 PM Dec 12th from Echofon in reply to robertbrook
  7. Ladies and gents: JavaScript ever gotten you laid? If so please contact @cote and I. #drunkandretired wants to hear your story! 1:51 PM Dec 12th from Echofon
  8. It's a shame that #rhino and #spidermonkey don't get higher billing than XULRUNNER on http://www.mozilla.org/projects 11:04 PM Dec 11th from Tweetie
  9. @andrewa2 you want jruby --ng It's not perfect, but it sure makes TDD a lot more bearable 11:01 PM Dec 11th from Tweetie in reply to andrewa2
  10. Like most others, the software patents named in #apple vs #nokia are complete bullshit. "OO Notification Framework?" puh-lease. 10:19 AM Dec 11th from Tweetie
  11. RT @alancfrancis: RT @dimsumthinking Developer Buys New 'Pomodoro Technique' Book To Help Him Finish 'Getting Things Done' Book 7:27 AM Dec 11th from Tweetie
  12. OH: 'Living on the Edge' is like running #rails edge: A few moments in, and you're in pain and holding your privates http://bit.ly/92IlHw 9:56 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie
  13. @cemerick actually I meant multi-language as in japanese and finnish :) 8:08 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie in reply to cemerick
  14. http://rubyonweed.com/ 7:54 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie
  15. so what's the state of the art for developing multi language sites in rails? 7:18 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie
  16. the 1.6 #android emulator is so finicky... always needing ANDROID_SDK_ROOT and an AVD. I liked it better when tools/emulator just DTRT 4:13 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie
  17. @cote back atcha! http://bit.ly/5a3LWD 2:50 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie in reply to cote
  18. @mhat I'm that hardcore! (or I'm in Finland) take your pick. 2:50 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie in reply to mhat
  19. One of the nicest side-effects of using #bundler is not having to worry about which version of #rake happens to be on your path. 2:36 AM Dec 10th from Tweetie
  20. java should have a -war option 12:04 PM Dec 8th from Tweetie