Interesting Things
- A certain Pivotal project runs 'bundle update' often, since they have a shared gem that gets updated a lot. They were wondering why it was so slow, and supposed it was due to slowness at rubygems.org, and thought a local mirror would help. They were wrong. Turns out the slowness is in the implementation of rubygems, whereby a 110K list of gems is marshalled and unmarshalled.
Interesting Things
- jQuery mobile: awesome!
- jQuery 1.6 is out and will break you. Read the change notes and upgrade with care. [Ed.: you do have JS tests, don't you?]
Interesting Things
- Josh and Alexander are pairing at a new iteration of the tête-à-tête pairing desk, where they've hacked (with a bandsaw) a traditional Ikea desk to allow for better ergonomics and pairing dynamics. Expect a blog post with pictures soon.
