The Last Ruby

My intention with the title was to blog about an experience I had being one of the last few dusty rubies that was still lying around as the rest of the miners took off with all the refined rubies. This whole story is a pure analogy.

Phewks!!!

Talk about trying to do the same thing over and over again for one week without succeeding... Well the prize of persistence is so so sweet at the end. Nway I'll be back in a few..

Agile in the enterprise

http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/05/06/agility-an-approach-to-fight-global-recession.html

A key goal of every IT department is to reduce the time and effort needed to deliver value to the business. To accomplish this, the best long-term trend we have in IT beyond Moore’s law and the power of the Internet is the improvement of IT agility. Increasing IT agility is important because it provides a value innovation and delivery method that harnesses these fundamental advances in infrastructure.

Interesting article on Agility the Enterprise and how it can be leveraged to to implement systematic changes in the business.

Wolfram|Alpha

WolframAlpha

I am not sure if this is a move closer to debunking the impossible assersion of creating a machine that can tell for every statement whether the answer is yes or no. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/impossible/machine.shtml. I can't wait for an API to this system to be released, it just looks awsome.

What happened to that poor horsie?

Have you ever come across a story that points towards the future for its conclusion. Take for example a few weeks ago I came across a story profiling a horse that was going to be on the Derby. It immediately sparked my interest in the Derby and I was for sure looking foward to finding out what happened to this poor horsie.

The Derby happened but unfortunately it was difficult for me to find what came of this horse. Did it make it, did it fail, did it run were all questions racing through my head after I got news of the completion of the race.

This happens every time now would it not have been nice if I could somehow tag this overnight sensantion of a horsie then over time be able to track it. It might not be the favorite but even reading a blog post by some unpaid blogger would suffice to satisfy my curiocity. How can this be done?

ActiveRDF

ActiveRDF

I am starting to work on some semantic web stuff in Ruby on Rails. After a few google searches it doesn't seem odd that I find another Active* in this case ActiveRDF for ruby related Resource Definition Framework needs.

I do not intend to share much beyond my experiments with this library and if I do remember, I will try to log each downside or upside to this library. I content that if it does not work for me I might have to start exploring other languages with better library support. For now stay tuned for a summer of fun.