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Toronto Ajax Pub Night – Monday January 14th

Can of Ajax and a mug of beerIt’s the only time you should mix Ajax and beer: at Ajax Pub Night, which takes place here in Toronto on Monday, January 14th. Here are the details:

Here’s what Brent has to say about Ajax Pub Night:

We’re here to build a community around Ajax and create opportunities to meet face to face at events small and large.

Ajax is a unifying word that brings a number of technologies and techniques together to express one concept – a way to build compelling browser-based applications that comprise the foundation of the future of the web.

Let’s start with a Toronto-based Ajax Pub Nite, informal and unstructured. Once some community is established we can introduce evening Ajax Presentations and Demos and/or Ajax Workshops and build up to an eventual full-day Ajax Camp, perhaps inspiring people from different locales to join in here and set up their own events worldwide.

I’ve been to similar pub nights at the Rhino, and generally the ideas flow as freely as the beer. If you’re interested in Ajax development and are looking to get some new ideas, meet your peers and possibly land a job (it’s happened at these gatherings), come on down to Ajax Pub Night this Monday! I plan to be there.

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Happy (Belated) Birthday, Donald Knuth!

“Post Knuth birthday article” was an item on my list of blogging to-dos that I missed yesterday. So I’ll just wish the Good Doctor a happy 70th birthday, point you to Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood’s article on Knuth (full of linky goodness) and close with this amusing thought: if someone wants to make a Knuth biopic, I nominate Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute in the American version of The Office) to play him…

A younger Donald Knuth and Rainn Wilson, side by side.

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Cobra Commander USB Drive

Here’s one for the do-it-yourselfers who grew up on G.I. Joe cartoons: a photo essay showing how this guy made his own Cobra Commander USB drive.

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We Don’t Need No Steenking GUI!

ruby-debug in 30 seconds: “There’s good tutorial links on the ruby-debug homepage, and a very good Cheat sheet, but I wanted to give a bare-bones HOWTO to help you get immediately productive with ruby-debug.”

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An Intro to Ruby’s “Enumerable” Module

“If you’re still writing for loops, stop; there’s a better way.” In Ruby, for loops should be the exception. Make sure you know all about the functionality offered by the Enumerable module, which has methods for iterating through, sorting and searching arrays, hashes and other collection-type objects.

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The Evolution of the TSOT Office

It’s been exactly one week since we moved from TSOT’s temporary office to the permanent one on the 11th floor at 151 Bloor Street West. The new digs are pretty sweet, and I thought I’d post some photos showing the evolution of the space.

Here’s what the place looked like on December 7th. You can click the photo below to see the whole photoset on Flickr:

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Click this photo to see the “TSOT December 7” photoset.

Here’s how things looked on December 20th and 21st. Once again, click the photo to see the whole photoset on Flickr:

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Click this photo to see the “TSOT December 20 – 21” photoset.

And finally, here’s how things looked on “Moving-In Day”, January 3rd. Click the photo to see the whole photoset:

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Click this photo to see the “TSOT January 3” photoset.

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“Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?”

Cover of “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?”
And while we’re at it, why is Mommy taking off her shirt in front of the webcam?


This promotion for Windows Home Server
is done up in the style of “Mommy, Where Do I Come From?” childrens’ books, and it is high-larious. Gizomodo’s got scans of the entire book — check ’em out!

Page from the book: “When a mommy and daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift.”
Ooh! Daddy’s going to Mommy a server! Watch for the follow up book, Why is Daddy Sleeping on the Couch?