Technology
April 15, 2008
08:16
April 14, 2008
23:52
Search engine giant Google adapts technology to help track down predators who use the web to exploit children.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
23:20
Michael Dell tells BBC News that his firm can regain its spot as the world's number one PC maker.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
15:39
A virtual walk around ancient Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
10:24
Poor programming by web designers is being exploited by hi-tech criminals to steal login details, warn experts.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
10:17
The BBC's head of future media and technology Ashley Highfield is leaving to launch an on-demand video service.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
06:50
Yet another example of Google’s five-year-plan for sticking its foot inside the Enterprise door. What Google is doing here is brilliant.
Google knows that Ray Ozzie is coming later this year with a string of initiatives to keep Microsoft relevant to the new enterprise. They also know that once Microsoft does buy Yahoo Microsoft will [...]
Source: Scobelizer - Microsoft
Categories: Blogging, Technology
06:35
I’m tracking the new “friend divide.” What is it?
Well, compare your experiences on a number of services when you only have one friend vs., say, 500. Look at Upcoming.org. Have only one friend? It really is empty looking and there’s not much value. Get 500? And you’ll have tons of events reporting to you that [...]
Source: Scobelizer - Microsoft
Categories: Blogging, Technology
April 12, 2008
11:31
When I got into the Kinnernet conference in Israel I found out that we were all going to have roommates so that everyone could fit into the lake-side resort here. I was a little disappointed, after all I had just spent the last few trips rooming with Rocky Barbanica and I was looking forward to [...]
Source: Scobelizer - Microsoft
Categories: Blogging, Technology
11:16
Louis Gray, who is now my favorite blogger who covers what’s happening in the social media space, writes a blog post about how bloggers are getting worried about the fracturing of their comments. It is currently on the top of TechMeme, and since today’s Saturday, that must mean it’s the bitchmeme of the week.
Anyway, [...]
Source: Scobelizer - Microsoft
Categories: Blogging, Technology
April 11, 2008
15:36
People surfing for suicide information are more likely to find sites encouraging it than giving support, a study says.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
11:40
A visit to the historic garage where Silicon Valley got started
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
09:53
Persistent file-sharers should not be thrown off the net, say European politicians.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
April 10, 2008
22:45
So today I decided (and now I forget exactly why) to try out the relatively new (Rails 2.0 at least) way of doing fixtures in Rails. It comes from a plugin called Rathole (see here) and means that instead of:
companies.yml
reeplay:
id: 1
name: reeplay
employees.yml
matt:
id: 1
name: Matt
company_id: 1
we can do:
companies.yml
reeplay:
name: $LABEL
employees.yml
matt:
name: Matt
company: reeplay
by allowing the fixtures to automatically generate the id's a source of brittleness (which anyone who has needed to insert a fixture will be familiar with) is removed. Not to mention the fixtures become smaller and more intelligible. There's a bunch of other nice stuff to do with associations. All in all quite a win.
If it worked.
That's the thing, when I change my fixture:
playlist_x:
user_id: 1 # user 'matt'
to:
playlist_x:
user: matt
all I get is:
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Unknown column 'user' in 'field list'
which is less than helpful because, of course, there is no user column that's the whole point. The fixtures should be removing that an inserting an autogenerated user_id column in it's place.
I have no idea why this isn't working. I'm using Rails 2.0.2 and i've verified that changeset 8036 seems to be there. It's just not working.
Now I have spent some time converting all my fixtures and none of my tests run which is a bit crippling. Well, that is to say they run, but it takes about 10 minutes to finish printing the complete list of identical exceptions and stack traces.
If anyone can help me out here it would be much appreciated.Source: Curiouser and curiouser
Categories: Technology
18:20
Gadgets with vastly bigger memory capacities could result from research by IBM scientists.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
10:57
The number of malicious programs in circulation has hit the one million mark, says security firm Symantec.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
10:56
Four weeks ago I had 5,250 emails in my inbox. Today? 10.
What’s the difference? I’ve been on lots of airplanes in the past month. Why is that important? Because in airplanes there’s no Internet. Nothing to distract you. I find I can answer about 10x more email in a plane than I can on the [...]
Source: Scobelizer - Microsoft
Categories: Blogging, Technology
09:20
Web shows produced by social networking site MySpace could soon air on TVs outside the US.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
09:07
I think I called this one back in 2001:
Worst. President. Ever.
History News Network's poll of 109 historians found that 61 percent of them rank Bush as "worst ever"
among U.S. presidents. 96 percent of the respondents place the Bush presidency in the bottom tier of
American presidencies. 98 percent label it a "failure."
This marks a dramatic deterioration for Bush. Previously he wasn't viewed in the most positive terms,
but there was a consensus that he wasn't the "worst of the worst" either. That was in the spring of 2004.
In the meantime, Bush has established himself as the torture president, the basis for his invasion of Iraq
has been exposed as a fraud, the Iraq War itself has gone disastrously, the nation's network of alliances
has faded, and the economy has gone into a tailspin-not to mention the bungled handling of relief for
victims of hurricane Katrina. In 2004, only 12 percent of historians were ready to place Bush dead last.
I wonder how much responsibility those who voted Bush into power not once, but twice, feel? I wonder also at those justices that handed Bush his first victory. How have they benefited?
Source: Curiouser and curiouser
Categories: Technology
07:27
Yahoo and Google announce a two-week experiment that will see them share advertising space.
Source: BBC - technology
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