Archives for March 2008
checking table existence in Rails’ migrations
I just refactored a table and in the migration I created for it I first need to drop the table and then create it from scratch, so the first line of self.up is drop_table :table_name. But when I go back and forth over that migration, the second time around the table doesn’t exist (because [...]
Asimov would be proud…
Robots seem to be getting awesome again.
Evidence:
Does this robot-assisted suicide conflict with the three laws of robotics?
Happy Pi Day
Today is 3/14 (if you’re using the US way of writing dates), aka Pi Day!
A few years ago, Google created a really clever job posting (more here). They put up banners and bought billboards in areas of the country with lots of smart mathematicians, such as Harvard Square in Boston, that said: “(first 10-digit [...]
Puddleblog on Kottke
Kottke linked to our collaborative work puddleblog yesterday. Cool.
