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The Ruby Garbage Collector was not meant to run

It’s the weakness for (long running) server processes.

Case Study: CouchDB as used by VPRO

VPRO is a public broadcasting company in The Netherlands. via

Common Programmer Health Problems

Zed Shaw talks about all the not immediately obvious things that can go wrong with your body and discusses what to do to prevent them.

Software developers should start considering that accurately reflecting the user’s desires is not just a good design principle, it is a sacred duty.

Handwriting on the Sky - Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere

An essay on ethics and programming by Glyph Lefkowitz. via

Kyoto Cabinet 1.0.0 released

An improvement over Tokyo Cabinet in the multicore world.

You're Cuking It Wrong – Elabs

Stories should be human.

Ruby 1.9.2 is released

Best of all:

new psych library wraps libyaml. You can use the library instead of syck.

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