Daily Archives: January 29th, 2008

RailsConf 2008 Registration is Open

Just got the email: early bird registration for RailsConf 2008 (which is $100 cheaper) is now open. When I was working a nice big company like Tucows, they’d foot the bill, making the decision a no-brainer. Now that I’m at TSOT, which is a start-up, we don’t have those budgets and now I have to [...]

“Star Wars” Stills in 1080p

Need desktop images? How about these Star Wars stills in 1080p?

At Last, a Computer Peripheral for Those Romantic Encounters

USB Aroma Radio + Speaker

The use of computers as assistive devices for romantic encounters isn’t new: from the “computer dating gone terribly wrong” plotline used by some ’60s and ’70s sitcoms to the likes of LavaLife and eHarmony, we’ve had a handful of dating generations’ worth of software approaches. However, there wasn’t much in the way of romance-assistive computer hardware…until the USB Aroma Radio + Speaker!

Enumerating Ruby’s “Enumerable” Module, Part 1: “all?” and “any?”

Ruby gemstoneWhile I often refer to the documentation at Ruby-Doc.org, I often find its descriptions a little unclear, lacking in detail and even missing some vital information. In the “do it yourself and share it afterwards” spirit of Open Source, I’ve decided to start working on a series of articles that I’ll eventually compile into a single site to become a useful, complete and better alternative to Ruby-Doc.org’s docs. These articles will appear here on Global Nerdy on an ongoing basis, and I hope you’ll find them useful.

In this installment, I’ll cover two of Enumerable’s methods: all? and any?