Almost five years since the last post about How to Web [0] - wow that's some large slice of space-time continuum. I recall I almost started this blog for stuff like this, good memories [1]. Half a decade later, what's changed one might ask? Well, the scale looks bigger and so far the talks have been interesting at least ...
How to Web conference, random thoughts, mostly live - five years later
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Shedding some light into UUID version 4 in Ruby and Rails
Ruby's standard library and Rails's PostgreSQL adapter use by default version 4 UUIDs. This can be changed in Rails migrations via: default: 'uuid_generate_v1()' param whereas Ruby's stdlib only supports version 4. Another interesting difference is in the implementations: In the Ruby's stdlib the UUID method is found in ...
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The half-life of a programmer
Half-life (t1/2) is the amount of time required for the amount of something to fall to half its initial value. The term is very commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay, but it is also used more generally for discussing any type of exponential decay. I had this ...
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