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Jun 12

BigDog Beta (early Big Dog quadruped robot testing) (via Sufabie)

Jun 10

Fuzed Roadmap

Just thought I’d mention Fuzed v0.10.0 today, which has a faster mochiweb faceplate. Tom’s also got the RAILS_ENV propagation going so you can run a real production app.

We’re also going to get SSL and multi-master failover done this month. Once Fuzed is ready to host a project like GitHub and can be started with one command for easy local development, and supports merb, we’ll call v1.0.0 and take over the rails webapp world.

My now-not-so-secret-goal is to get the Rails and Merb project to acknowledge us and have support baked in.

“Githug is still down for me .. :( ” — freudian slip” court3nay, in #caboose (via caboose)

Visiting PowerSet - Erlang… Represent. (via iphnem)

Jun 6

Fuzed and EC2

Scott has made an amazing script on top of Fuzed to easily host things in EC2 and scale them in an eyeblink. The screencast is amazing to watch.

I think though that there are some setup quirks, because you shouldn’t hit YAWS limitations so early. I’m willing to bet that he didn’t ramp his concurrency high enough. also, all the stats are in dev mode, so it’s gotta Tom and I will try and use httperf and get some more scientifically controlled tests using Production Mode.

Bar Requests 10 Year Disbarment for Jack Thompson

The best way to endear yourself to your judge: Storm out of your own hearing. You heard it from JT first!

via www.dumpert.nl

Jun 5

schacon's fuzec2 at master

A script to automate deployment of fuzed onto EC2. We’ll integrate it into the core Fuzed shortly.

Fake bus stop keeps Alzheimer's patients from wandering off

Jun 4

Muppet Show - Swedish Chef - making donut (via )

I love you, Swedish Chef.

2girls1cup cake (via pinguino)

You cannot deny that chocolate cake is good.

SquirrelFish is faster than Tamarin

More benchmarking.

Attack of the efficient byte-compiled interpreter. What’s crazy to me is that Squirrelfish doesn’t seem to do anything amazingly new from an academic standpoint, it’s just a well-written interpreter by people who did their homework.

But seriously, Squirrelfish’s times on that graph are including bytecode compilation!!! Tamarin’s competitive numbers are executing pre-compiled code.

David Mandelin of the Mozilla Project Commons on SquirrelFish

No accusations, no invectives…

Just a brief appreciation, some hard numbers from experimentation, and and admission that the Tamarin people have work to do and reassurance that they’re on it.

This may be one of the best blog posts I’ve ever read.

PLT Scheme version 4.0 is Coming Soon

Pragmatic Scheme is a glorious vision. Somewhere before you hit Common Lisp there is a sweet spot that many people can enjoy.

Jun 3

via Toby’s Skitch

Press INSTALL to Install your new installer. Press UPDATE to update the update to your new updater.

Seriously, it’s turtles all the way down.

KirinDave said, "It's like a game of Jenga, but with the entire company."

Fuzed Roadmap