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    SOAP calls make activerecord stop working, oh my

    Create an active record object, retrieve some stuff from a soap service and then get this:NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!The error occurred while evaluating nil.has_key?        fr

    Comments (1) . Friday, 29 February 2008

    SQL is dead?

    Comment left here.  XML - sighI read Oracle's early papers on XML DB - "we store the schema and the data separately, with pointers into the data"Codasyl in disguise. The same with the o-o databases, hierarchical databases - none of

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    Deep merge a Ruby hash, the joys of recursion

    I was doing some hacking with lists of valid phone number codes (3,4,5 digits depending upon various factors). I used hashes that could be walked down because of the key lengths. Now we've decided to do it  differently because the data file

    Comments (1) . Friday, 15 February 2008

    Global Warming - the problem with it

    Insightful few paragraphs here.  If John and others are right, the climate change folks look like tools, if they are wrong we might be in deep trouble.That's the problem.That said, I agree that we can overcome difficulties with technology an

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 14 February 2008

    Labelling young people - sigh

    Response to one of the comments left here by Stuart Luscombe  "when I was a teenager a mere 10 years ago there just weren't the kind of problems you keep seeing today. If anything I thin

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 12 February 2008