http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com My thoughts (facts) on everything Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:02:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We recently upgraded from rubygems 0.9.x to 1.2.0. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a working service init script for this new version, so I had to hand-craft a basic one to start/stop the service. You'll find it below in all its glory (and probably under/incorrectly-implemented as I am in ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/gem-server-init-script Nothing is perfect. Nothing. I am not; you are not. Ruby is not and Rails is not (though it seems better than anything I've used/evaluated so far, regardless of language). Zed is definitely not perfect. I'm not sure he'd say the same about himself, but you'd have to ask him. Lord ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/zeds-so-unbelievably-pompous-zsup If you've done much in flex, you may have used the "..." notation in a method signature to indicate that the function takes a dynamic number of arguments, such as: private function doIt( ...args ):void ... then called the method: doIt( 1 ) doIt( 1, 2 ) doIt( "some", "other", "stuff" ) The question is this: ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/forwarding-a-dynamic-argument-rest-array-in-flex Math in programming just generally sucks. I come from a mainly Java background, and recently I've been using Ruby. But in both cases, the statement holds true. I know this isn't really a new problem, but for god's sake, it's 2007; why is it still a problem? Using Ruby, let's suppose we ... http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/when-crap-just-doesnt-add-up As I just said, this blog is probably pointless... but alot of the time, I have crap to say and nobody will listen, so I may just type it here, and you can deal with that. Oh, and don't vote for Hillary. She's a socialist weasel. http://ramblingsof.justinwinkler.com/this-blog-is-probably-pointless