links for 2008-12-01

"To close out, let's try to answer our questions about the dartboard of the opening paragraph. Based on the PITCHf/x results it appears that a fastball thrown at a dartboard placed over home plate will hit the bulls-eye with some part of the ball a little less than 1.5 percent of the time. Fully 46 percent of these pitches would miss the dartboard completely. Just think of that when they tell you about somebody's pinpoint control."

standards are indeed important. it's just difficult to get buyers to think beyond the present.

who's using what in the Ruby world

interesting

more FJM

questioning the interaction between the Drizzle and the MySQL projects

the obvious conclusion: there are a lot of pirates

still bummed about this