Try this simple but delicious relish on salads or risotto or mushroom soup:
Ruby is known as a duck-typed language: if an object walks and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. It’s a behaviorialist approach, which is far different from how many strongly typed languages behave: using interfaces and class definitions in a very static manner. I decided to explore Ruby’s dynamic capacities.
Josh Susser and others have produced excellent articles on creating a Ruby on Rails controller which serves up ERB view templates as CSS files.
In playing around with a number of debugging options for Rails, I concluded that nothing that was documented was suitable for me. I want what everyone else has: a fairly powerful debugger that doubles as an IDE. I want persistent watches, breakpoints, code stepping and variable inspection. Eclipse has all these features, so I wondered why no one had gotten a rails debug setup working properly inside this environment. So I set out to do just that. Continue reading…
As reported widely in the media today, it’s clear that humans are not only having an impact on the environment due to greenhouse gas emissions, but that we have no idea what the consequences of this impact will be. As scientists dig into the past to find answers, they are discovering that our current condition has no precedent: environmentally, we are well outside the bounds of the time since modern humans first evolved.
Dr Eric Wolff in the BBC article reference above said, “There’s nothing that suggests that the Earth will take care of the increase in carbon dioxide. The ice core suggests that the increase in carbon dioxide will definitely give us a climate change that will be dangerous.”
Not only have we had record temperatures out of line with the last 100 years of records, we now have CO2 levels out of range for the last 800,000 years of records. Buy air con. Sell short on heaters.
Rick Santorum is now losing to the neologism “santorum” as Google’s first listing for his last name. Recently invented by Dan Savage and promoted on this website, it’s nice to know what a little dedication and elbow grease can accomplish for new words in America. For more details on what this word santorum means, I will kindly refer you to the above link.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Diced strawberries
1/2 tsp molasses
1 tbs maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla
1 pinch salt
Combine
Pour over vanilla ice cream
