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IE8 passes acid test, but IE6 still roams free

The IE team announced that IE8 now passes the acid test. As awesome as this is, and as much as I would love to praise the IE guys for finally taking web standards seriously, there is a bigger problem out there…
And that is the problem of un-upgraded users clinging to a browser almost 7 years [...]

Pigeon godfather + lieutenant

Simple global settings for your Rails app

If you’ve got some global settings and don’t want to bother storing them in the database or YAML, here’s a quick way to get easy dotted notation access to them:
ApplicationSettings = OpenStruct.new(
:some_variable => true,

:complex_settings => {
:one => [:two,:three,:four],

[...]

Nightwalkers

Thoughtworks Mingle: awesome idea, embarassing performance

I think that Mingle is one of the few bug and issue tracking products that understands how humans work - the key word here is context. While other bugtrackers (ahem, bugzilla) are satisfied with giving you little more than a list of rows from a database, Mingle allows you to create very powerful views using [...]

Snowstorm

I thought we were going to skip winter altogether this year with the unseasonably warm November we had, but I was wrong. All of a sudden 3-6 inches are upon us. This was taken at the beginning of the snow as I was leaving the office.

Everyone can play guitar

I decided I’m going to start occasionally posting some of my photos. Actually I didn’t take this one but it was my camera, and my post-processing work. And it’s me in the picture :-)