“Life is going to present to you a series of transformations. And the point of education should be to transform you. To teach you how to be transformed so you can ride the waves as they come. But today, the point of education is not education. It’s accreditation. The more accreditation you have, the more money you make. That’s the instrumental ( Read more... )

So, the litany against fear goes like this:

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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I’m back from Rubyconf.

Some people say Ruby is dead. We can probably gloss over Zed Shaw’s famous rant, since it’s from roundabout 2007. My understanding is that the thought came about because of the many new trends in programming languages: first node, then Erlang’s comeback and the birth of Elixir. Evented programming, non-blocking IO, all the ( Read more... )

More to the point, should Rails die?

Rails brought a lot of great things - it made it dumb easy to package an entire app together. It abstracted the complexity of the storage layer. It created an entire market. Things like Heroku, Railsonfire/codeship and other companies turned a profit by extending the benefits of Rails. And things like Capistrano ( Read more... )

EASY!

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.2

That’s it. You can now install ffi 1.5.

Mirrored from Seven steps.

I had an epiphany tonight about something that just about everyone knows: the three monkeys. And I wanted to share it with you.

The three monkeys are accompanied by the words: “See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.” The funny thing is that one monkey is covering his eyes, one monkey is covering his ears, and one monkey is covering his mouth! ( Read more... )

You’re training wrong! No, YOU’re training wrong!

A recent set of conversations have led me to examine the major difference in martial training. I’m going to start by separating training in two categories, making an imperfect black-and-white model of the martial world:

• Traditional eastern training
• Jeet Kune Do-like training

Now, let’s start to talk ( Read more... )

If you’re using Devise and rspec on Rails 3, and you want to override a controller, and you end up with an error that makes no sense whatsoever:

“Undefined method ‘name’ for nil:NilClass”, well then, you probably want to add the following line to your tests:

@request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:admin]

Yeah… That took me way longer than ( Read more... )

This song is at least as old as 1973 and is originally from Italy (Giorgio Gaber - Dente della conoscenza). If you like finding patterns, making analogies and metaphors, and overall pondering, then examine the tooth of knowledge in the contexts of: science, religion, culture, society (etiquette, etc), and finally, the internet.

(note : ‘SHHH’ is ( Read more... )

Here are the things you need to know about using any new font for Rubymine:

1. It needs to be Unicode
2. It needs to go into the $JDK_HOME/jre/lib/fonts directory

That is absolutely it. The last thing is the Monaco font, which I have attached for your downloading pleasure. It turns out DejaVu Sans Mono just isn’t as nice - however nice it may be - and ( Read more... )