Archives | October 2008

I previously posted a rant and a bit of a story telling article about some of my horrible experiences with recruiters. Well about a month ago I had yet another experience. I give to you the proof. I was sitting at home  and I received this email. (shortened to just useful excerpts) Hello Erik, Trust you are doing well. I just left you a Voice Mail. Please let me know if you are interested in the position bellow by sending me your resume. I will call you to further discuss.. Web Developer III Location: Orlando, FL Job Type: Contract Duration: 9 months Rate: Open .. long position...

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I was wondering around today and happened to run into this super-lightweight cms called le.cms. Intrigued I continued to read about the benefits of the application and I read this: The content is stored in text files, one per page, which means that no matter how many pages there are, page load time remains virtually the same, unlike a CMS with content stored in a database that takes longer and longer to query as more content is added. I was shocked, they cannot be serious right? It seems as if in their opinion databases have been a waste of researchers time. I don't know where to begin at dismissing...

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For those that have not used metric_fu (http://metric-fu.rubyforge.org/) its a great project by Jake Scruggs (http://jakescruggs.blogspot.com/) that merges many different ruby projects for measuring code performance, into one bundle of rake tasks and generates html reports. Up until now its churn feature (which shows you which of your files have been modified the most in source control) has only supported subversion. Myself I am a huge fan of Git and I use it for everything, even when I work on projects in other revision control systems I use things like git-svn and git-p4 to push to those systems...

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