David Bolton Strikes Again

For a trip down memory lane, Jeff Atwood’s latest blog post about growing up with BASIC is a must read.

I grew up with GW-BASIC in the mid-80s.  I loved programming, and I actually made some reasonably complex software.  I’m convinced the accounting software I created was what landed me a scholarship to a prestigious private school here in Sydney.  Other software: a graphics program, many, many games (culminating in a loderunner type game with *a level designer*), a text editor and many others.  I even built an interpreted language *IN BASIC* (these days the cool kids would call it a DSL, and yes, I was crazy and young).

There’s an interesting article on running Rails on Glassfish and why this could make sense for you. And it’s an easy sell to me: one of the things that bother me most about Rails is resource usage, so database connection pooling is an instant winner in my book. But I’d love to know more about the performance characteristics of such a setup.

Ideally I’d have a few hours on a weekend to play around with Glassfish and Rails, but the coursework for my Masters is starting to bite. Maybe in a couple of months…

I wouldn’t normally participate in this sort of thing, but …

64 ls
62 svn
41 cd
40 rake
39 rdebug
24 ss
18 exit
17 rm
17 ./script/server
15 cap


I really should alias cd & ls together huh