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1 day ago

in An analysis of Ruby 1.8.x HTTP client performance | apocryph.org on Apocryph
You should have a look a RightScales http_connection gem too. Seems that there are bunch of other stuff that Net::HTTP is missing too . e.g support for HTTP Status: 100 Continue
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BradfordW This was something I stumbled across while looking for a replacement for net::http - http://github.com/jfairbairn/fasthttp/tree/even...

2 months ago

in Feature suggestion for Twitter (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Of course they should only get if they haven't already ..

6 months ago

in Lightroom Adventure - Day 1 on LOL: Life of Leo
Something geeky for you to see in OZ
Remember in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson when Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse ends up in Australia? He builds a computer that uses long tubes of mercury as RAM ?

Well you can see the computer that his is based on. Its the oldest surviving computer, and its in the Melbourne museum. Its the CSIRAC, here is my (bad) pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/withoutdirection/1...

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