Archive: 2008-01
Ruby parsing ambiguities
I was reading Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof on PerlMonks over breakfast this morning (this may in itself cause you to worry about me), which introduced me to a clever, ambiguous snippet of Perl constructed by Randall Schwartz:
I am Legend
I realise that everyone else who’s going to has probably already seen it by this point, but I just watched I am Legend at the cinema. Coincidentally, I listened to an abridged reading of the book last week—I’d recorded it off the radio last year—which made it very easy to compare the two.
Bring out your dead (Rails templates)
Is your Rails application cluttered up by extraneous templates that you aren’t using any more? Do you find it hard to work out which ones they are? Worry no more! Help is at hand.
Two leg minimum
It’s a damned shame that Oscar Pistorius and his carbon-fibre legs have been barred from competing in the next Olympics. I’d have watched him. Every four years it’s the same old: regular humans running around with nothing more than the legs they were born with. Boring!
Queuing etiquette
I joined what looked like a short queue at Tesco. There was one person having her goods scanned and one other set of items on the belt.