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Grab DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 now and join the DB2Night Show

IBM just released DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 (aka DB2 Express-C 9.7 FixPack 1). This version includes a long list of enhancements. Don’t forget to download and install it; as per its previous versions, it’s entirely free of charge.

You can grab it directly from here:

Merge Commits are Back (and Better than Ever)

After a long hiatus, we’re linking to merge commits again. We truncated merge commits months ago, because they didn’t provide any information beyond the shas of the parents, but now we’re exposing the diff between them as an overview of what changed in the branch.

Essentially, what we’re doing behind the scenes is: git diff parent1…parent2

GitHub Meetup SF #11

Photos for John Colins | Yelp

Dont worry fellow San Franciscans! There’s still a drinkup slated for the home front.

My Year of Hustle & the Freckle-aversary

New Year’s resolutions, anyone?

Three hundred and sixty five days ago, I was drinking spiked punch and looking forward to Christmas.

Oh, and spending late, late hours in the office, busting tail to launch our time tracking service, Freckle. And working on our JavaScript performance book. (And later came Twistori Desktop for Macs.)

Even though it was December 2008, it was all part of my plan for 2009: my Year of Hustle.

Rango: A New Modular Ruby Webapp Framework

Screen shot 2009-12-02 at 13.25.25Rango is a Rack-based lightweight Web framework by Jakub Šťastný that has seemingly borrowed a little bit less from past Ruby frameworks and a bit more from Django. Based on the 1.9 version of Ruby, Rango works with

On Wordpress, pardon my dust

Yeah, it’s been a long time since Slash7 looked this fugly.

Theme conversion’s got some kinks. Which is OK, because I planned to redo the site design anyway. But I will fix the headings and stuff before spending time on the new design.

Til then, though, I’d be much obliged if you could ignore the bad typography, and let me know if you notice any broken links. Thaaanks!

Gravedigging why the lucky stiff: Io Has A Very Clean Mirror

I’ve been toying around with the idea for a small website lately, but never actually got around to do it. In an attempt to clear out my personal to do list I finally motivated myself to start yesterday, and I have to say the following combination of tools is not only insanely efficient, but also really fun to work with:

GitHub Meetup Philadelphia

I’ll be in Philadelphia this week and my pal trotter and I will be orchestrating a GitHub Drinkup on Thursday, December 3rd at 8:30pm at National Mechanics (map). If you’re in town, come on by to escape the cold and grab a brew with some good friends. First drink’s on us!

Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 Released

Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be easily upgraded to with “gem update rails”. The most interesting bits can be summarized in three points.

Improved compatibility with Ruby 1.9

J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby?

The current JRuby team members are all passionate hackers with intimate knowledge of Ruby, Java, and of course JRuby. That said, none of us were on the team at the project’s original inception. I assume the JRuby pioneers thought JRuby would be a good idea—I know I did, when I first heard about it. For a lot of folks though, it’s somewhat less obvious. Why is writing JRuby on top of the JVM a good idea, they ask. Are we nuts, evil geniuses, or is using the JVM just a solid pragmatic decision?

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #081: 06/05/2009 | Rails Fire

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #081: 06/05/2009

Episode 81. We're joined this week by the awesome Corey Haines. This podcast is chock full of news and awkwardness. We do apologize for the sound quality this episode -- my one mic had a bit of difficulty picking up 3 people and keeping the levels consistent. Hope you like it!

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