Two-part posting.
1. The hot-shit developer boys at http://dev.rubyonrails.org apparently use Python (Trac) for their bug-tracking system, and for extra chuckles, it’s broken.
From http://dev.rubyonrails.org/newticket#preview
(removed a Python stack trace that came down to a NOT NULL constraint violation in the underlying database — the error [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
Broken Quoting of Spaces in Table Names in Ruby’s ActiveRecord
Password Policies Must Be Disclosed!
Most all web applications require some sort of username and password to login. However, you never know upon signing up how the application (site, service, whatever) will treat your password. – Option 1: The app does what all good applications, having been entrusted with your password, ought to do: it passes it through [...]
VC Annoyance: Term Sheets Excluded from Closing Book
The Closing Book of a financing is the definitive collection of all documents relied upon in conducting a financing. It will generally have a “snapshot” of critical documents before and just after the financing, such as the original Articles of Incorporation dated one day, and the “amended and restarted” articles dated the [...]
Simple Patterns
Mutt understands the following simple patterns: ~A all messages ~b EXPR messages which contain EXPR in the message [...]
Movielink is Sorry.
In speaking with folks in the P2P and content delivery space, the name Movielink pops up fairly frequently. I’m not a great follower of the cinema, but when I do want to see a film at home, something within me is repulsed at the idea of letting Blockbuster have another shot at [...]
Feedback Rant Disclaimer: I’m Trying to Be Constructive
In the past several weeks I have had the opportunity to alpha-test, or beta-test, or other-Greek-letter test an abnormally large number of sofware products and web sites.
Not coincidentally, I have also had occasion to write a number of “user experience horror story” rants directed into various types of feedback forms, support@whatever.cxm [...]
Vim 7 is Incompatible with the Vimspell Plugin
On my Cygwin environment on Win XP, Vim 7 appears to run fine with one exception: the vimspell.vim plugin. It apepars that Vimspell conflicts with the new built-in spell check functionality in Vim 7. The symptom of this is that one starts to type and a massive amount of doubled or [...]