Caffeinated Coder

Here are a few links to distract you from all the holiday family dysfunction.

1. IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device – Leon Bambrick (a.k.a Secret Geek) serves up a wickedly funny post that pokes fun at SysAdmins…<excerpt>”The ’self-clicking’ “next” button is set to revolutionize how computer users ‘Get Things Done’ — but a wave of fear is sweeping an industry facing wide spread redundancy. System Administrators are expected to be the hardest hit, with over 90% of their duties now offloaded to the clever button”</excerpt>
2. Resolution Randomizer – Thanks to this handy little SilverLight app, I don’t have to waste any effort thinking about resolutions this year. Top on my list now is to “Never again try drinking cocktails in the bathroom”.  Finally, a resolution I have a chance of keeping.
3. Work on what you use and share the rest – DHH, the Grand Poohbah of Rails, shares some surprising news that Merb will be merged into Rails 3. One of the major criticism of Rails is that it is too much of a monolithic framework, which means that it is not possible to substitute in your favorite view engine or data access frameworks like it is in Django. Merb is an alternative Ruby based MVC framework that is based on a plugin model, so this seems like a pretty smart move on the part of the Rails team.

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