Archive for November, 2006

New Ruby User Group

We (Ceaser Larry and I) are starting a new segment of the Utah Ruby User Group called the Layton.rb. Ironically our first meeting will be held in Clinton, but we expect to find a place in Layton to host the meeting ongoing. The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every [...]

The Zune’s impact on the music industry

Microsoft has been on the offensive when it comes to piracy lately, but perhaps their most interesting move lately comes with the Zune. The Zune has been receiving a lot of press lately, most of it deservedly bad. There is just one little area I’d like to focus in on though, and that’s [...]

Slashdot runs out of room for threaded comments

Slashdot ran into a major problem with their comment system today. Apparently they have a column called “parent_id” or some such that they forgot to switch an index to a 32 bit integer. The net result is they have disabled threaded comments until they can alter the table to 32 bit integers. [...]

Welcome to Proc.new

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. I like to ramble on about things that are technology related or startup related. You can take a quick look at the categories on the sidebar to get the gist of what this blog is about.
My name is Doug Tolton, I’ve been a professional programmer [...]