I needed to setup some caching and database updating that will run once a day on our ruby on rails application.
I found this link, which gave three different approaches - all of which I didn’t like.
A quick and dirty yet tried and true method is to use cron to call wget on a controller [...]
I just found this article from TED. It seems like they are really committed to bringing technology to Africa:
TED and the sponsors behind the conference made an amazing commitment to including innovative young African leaders, thinkers and entrepreneurs into the TED Global conference. Of the 450 attendees at the conference, 100 are “fellows”, here through [...]
Remember William Kamkwamba and his homemade Windmill made from bicycle parts?
After I made that post, Emeka Okafor invited William to attend the TED conference in Tanzania. Soyapi (who is also there) just irc’d me to say that William gave a presentation and received a standing ovation. People like Bono, Larry Page, and lots [...]
