“ In certain cases my weaknesses are that I’m too idealistic. Realize that sometimes best is the enemy of better. Sometimes I go for “best” when I should go for “better,” and end up going nowhere or backwards. I’m not always wise enough to know when to go for the best and when to just go for better. Sometimes I’m blinded by “what could be” versus “what is possible,” doing things incrementally versus doing them in one fell swoop. Balancing the ideal and the practical is something I still must pay attention to.
Steve Jobs (via jacks)
Plumes et Plomb
“ In certain cases my weaknesses are that I’m too idealistic. Realize that sometimes best is the enemy of better. Sometimes I go for “best” when I should go for “better,” and end up going nowhere or backwards. I’m not always wise enough to know when to go for the best and when to just go for better. Sometimes I’m blinded by “what could be” versus “what is possible,” doing things incrementally versus doing them in one fell swoop. Balancing the ideal and the practical is something I still must pay attention to.
Steve Jobs (via jacks)
DIY : how to create your own video slide show
Want to learn how to make your photos into a slick video slideshow like the one below ? Hang on to your keyboard and start reading.
[See post to watch QuickTime movie]
First, you have to code…
Ferret on steroids
I am proud to announce the first tourteaser contribution to an open source project, ferret, and to another one, acts_as_ferret.
Ferret is a port of Lucene in Ruby, with a significant part written in C to speed up indexing and querying.
Speed of indexing was quite impressive. But when using acts_as_ferret, the speed fell dramatically. This was quite strange. In fact, indexing speed is usually not that important, basically you just index the full base once, and…
Salty authentication
As you may have guessed from our previous posts we are quite busy migrating TourTeaser to Ruby on Rails. This will be the subject of an upcoming post, but what I can tell you today is that we are discovering each day new gems, literally speaking …
This is how we discovered the wonderful world of authentication in Rails. This world looks more like a jungle than a tidy shop, but gems are usually found in jungles, not in the middle of the street…
But with time comes…
