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I haven’t had time to finish part 2 of the SQL vs. Relational Model cage match. Instead, I’ve been working on convincing the guys at Pivotal Labs to hire me, and it seems to have finally worked! I start February 1st. I can’t even tell you how thrilled I am. I try to choose […] The relational model underlies all modern relational databases, and it is a thing of beauty. It defines relations (tables), attributes (columns), tuples (rows), and a whole relational algebra that spells out in detail what you can and cannot do to them. It is logically consistent, and in an odd way almost fractal in the way […] Applies to: Ruby 1.8.7, compiled from source, on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I’ve been working on a side project that deals with Japanese text in Ruby. I installed rtranslate, a gem that gives me programmatic access to Google Translate. I wanted to try it out in irb. >> require ‘rtranslate’ => true So far […] In 2009, over 200 women and girls (and some men!) learned to program in Ruby at my workshops in San Francisco. We’re planning another outreach workshop in the new year, a few weeks after She’s Geeky. Stay tuned for details. In 2009, I co-founded a nonprofit, and lost my corporate job. In 2009, my […] |
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