‘Twas Brillig*

These are my links for April 13th through April 15th:

• Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language -
• Ruby Tutorial: Ruby Study Notes - Best Ruby Guide, Ruby Tutorial -
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby -
• try ruby! (in your browser) -
• Ruby Programming Language -
• Version Control with Subversion -
• RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool -
• Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor -
• Regular Expression Library -
• Getting Started - Google App Engine - Google Code -

I’ve just stumbled across google’s embeddable maps feature - so I have to give it a go

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Well, it’s been two weeks since the update and I can honestly say the new look Google Reader is much better than the old one - so much so I’ve moved all my non-work feeds back to it (work feeds have to be ignored since they’re on the intranet). I’m particularly happy that a mark all as read link has been added and I quite like the ability to share what I’m reading (see right).

According to the Google Operating System, that is when I will run out of gmail space - of course by then several of the development mailing lists I subscribe to will be only interesting from an historical perspective. The result does not make sense to me - since last April (when the space was increased to 2GB and the constant space increase started) I have used 400MB and the space has increased to 2.755GB, i.e. I keep storing email at a lower rate than space is added and so should never run out of space.

Update: It would appear that at some point the rate of gmail space increase dropped significantly.

Google reader is very strange - it positively encourages you to only subscribe to low volume feeds - adding something like BBC news results in the reader overwhelming you.

…is taking over my life. First it was the just a search engine, then groups (by buying the much missed deja), then I started using the toolbar in IE, then gmail, then blogger, then their personal homepage, then I started using the toolbar in Firefox and now it’s Picasa. It’s hard to say which company I rely on more Google, Microsoft or Sun.