Daemons
Daemons provides an easy way to wrap existing ruby scripts (for example a self-written server) to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands.
If you want, you can also use daemons to run blocks of ruby code in a daemon process and to control these processes from the main application.
Besides this basic functionality, daemons offers many advanced features like exception backtracing and logging (in case your ruby script crashes) and monitoring and automatic restarting of your processes if they crash.
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…
