Archive for 9th June 2006

Elicit Blogging Client Second Impressions

The blogging client schedules posts according to local time, but timestamps them for GMT. So posts I scheduled for this morning at 8 AM are showing up timestamped last night at 10 PM. That’s no good.

Risky teen behavior: Study refutes stereotypes

Here’s an interesting graphic associated with Health Risk Behaviors Among StudentsWhat jumps out at me is that, contrary to stereotypes, black teens have, across the board, the lowest rates of risky behavior. Of course, the study might be flawed, it’s self-reported behavior, etc., but it’s thought provoking.

via Fabian

WinFX becomes .NET Framework 3.0

What is with Microsoft and their naming? Now, WinFX, the not-poorly-named managed framework, has been rebranded the .NET Framework 3.0. Which is kind of strange, considering that Visual Studio and Visual Basic dropped the .NET brand and, if I’m not mistaken, WinFX is going to ship on top of version 2.0 of the CLR. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to change the name of the Base Class Library (BCL) to WinFX? Oh, and what does this mean for the standardization process?

Latest Ruby in Steel IDE Adds Debugging

The latest beta of the Ruby in Steel IDE has added debugging support. Nice.

Oh, Ruby/Amazon is a cool library to access Amazon Web Services from Ruby. Easy to use.