Who Took Away My Static Typing? Apparently the next SF Ruby meetup is titled “Remembering Java”. The wake will be held at Microsoft’s SF office, and will start with David Pollak’s eulogy “Who Took Away My Static Typing?”. Developer humor aside, I’m interested in the second presentation, Chris Wanstrath’s “Scaling Rails with Memcache”. Details here.
Distribute this. Bill de hÓra lists 8 fallacies of distributed information systems. And inbetween putting the title and post together, sneaks in a ninth one. There’s a few more good ones in the comments.
Free to what? Universal is starting a free music download service. Watch the ad, download and find something else to do, because it won’t play on your iPod. Not to worry because according to the IFPI “60m music players will be sold worldwide, many of them MP3 players not compatible with Apple’s services.” SpiralFrog’s target audience are people between the ages of 13 and 34, not exactly the demographic that owns an iPod or likes to share their music with friends.
Legal advise. Teaching a lawyer how to program is like teaching a ….? Anyway, Rich Ziade has a good piece on How Lawyers Are Like Programmers, except for the better hourly rate. (Via Stake Ventures)
Not just a pretty face. Fabulous Microformat icons by Chris Messina (follow the link for a download).