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  1. Just pushed another beta of Daniel Steinberg's Cocoa Programming book
  2. At the risk of pimping a little: today's the last day to order at 40% off if you want it shipped before next week. http://pragprog.com
  3. ---> Computing dependencies for octave ---> Fetching GraphicsMagick (and my heart sinks)
  4. Thanksgiving comes early this year: 40% off between now and next Wednesday: http://media.pragprog.com/n...
  5. Looks like I'm doing a keynote for Code Generation 2010 next June: http://www.codegeneration.n...
  6. @olabini The difference is: Ruby has just one
  7. @olabini Do you have a cite? I'm looking at Smalltalk, which spawned the idea: "Metaclass - a class whose instances are classes."
  8. @olabini Not new _instances_ of classes?
  9. Making Rails.root a Pathname removes a whole bunch of File.joins—thanks, guys
  10. @timbray http://bit.ly/YVagN
  11. If you haven't yet read Daniel Steinberg's posts on writing, you should. One a day since November 1st. http://bit.ly/praglife
  12. I have a stack of mail to go through that's an inch thick. Time to go to the gym.
  13. @alancfrancis Nuclear buttie
  14. @alancfrancis is waiting in a breadline
  15. (sorry about the clicks at my end—looks like I had a loose wire)
  16. me on code reading and s/w archeology: http://bit.ly/3qJbr1.
  17. Im strangely unmoved by the Go language.
  18. Cloud-Crowd is an example of leveraging micro servers and REST to federate services. I really think that's the future of app design.
  19. Having fun working on a Cloud-Crowd example for the new Master Ruby and Rails studio.
  20. @duncan ^ys^y ass is^