links for 2008-02-08

filed under: “not shocking”

i need to try these: wicked clevah may be wicked clevah, but it’s ugly as hell

amen. why we can’t filter by character set is beyond me.

on the one hand, this is hilarious. on the other, Jediism is no more absurd than some of the other available religions.

thoughts on Rails performance, a popular topic of late

for those open source projects that believe that marketing and public opinion don’t matter to their projects (i.e build it and they will come), i present evidence to the contrary. kudos to Donnie for his excellent work to date.

whenever i get my hands on one of the new rumored laptops, i’m going to be running Heron. glad to see it coming along so well.

“To summarize: use Groovy over Java, Rails needs components, Flex is the best RIA framework and WebTest keeps getting better. These aren’t my words, but I don’t see much fault in them either.”

“There just has to be a reason for the failure, and it couldn’t possibly be the technology. This is what I call the “Scooby-Doo” phase of the technology rejection curve, where the rubber mask has been ripped off and the crook yells as he’s dragged off”

this is absolutely hilarious