Rambling on rails, on ruby, but not on Rails
Thursday, July 31st, 2008(On rails and not on Rails… becase it was posted in a train between lugano and geneva… thanks to the wireless card donated by orange to all the inf phd students in lugano… ah orange, wei will always remember you :)
One of the things that is very likable about the Ruby community is the youthful momentum that the community has. A healthy and enthusiastic community would probably push out cool stuff even if the language would be really bad. Which is not the case anywyay. These being said, here is a fun movie of a Ruby-powered Musical Glass Playing Machine.
Another cool project/concept that Jeff pointed me out to is the DocBox project which “sits on top of RDoc and allows users to update documentation through a wiki-like interface”. The project is a Google Summer of Code project still in infancy.
And now for something completely different:
“A dog’s eyebrow movements usually express a similar emotion to that of a human’s eyebrow movements. Raised eyebrows suggest interest, lowered brows suggest confusion or mild anger…” - Dog Communication - in Wikipedia
AI that studies one’s work patterns and predict his future behavior. Average attention dedicated to the task: 11min. One of the best productivity tools: braindump. Large screens: big improvement in productivity. (Old Article) in NY Times