At the May raleigh.rb meetup, Kevin Smith gave a talk on alternative databases, in which he covered CouchDB and Redis. The talk convinced me that Redis would be the perfect database to underpin Get Encouraged.  Redis is a key-value pair database that is blazing fast: perfect for a small Twitter app that really only needs [...]

A while back I wrote about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.  In a serendipitous coincidence, NPR ran a story recently that directly relates to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong.  While the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis isn’t mentioned, it clearly is involved. The story touches on languages and how gender in languages affects thinking.  It is highlighted [...]

In my spare time I’ve been working on a small project called @getencouraged. If you can’t guess by the name, it involves Twitter. You can find it here: http://encourage.ruzuku.com/ The idea behind the project is that you can visit the website and get a stream of encouraging quotes whenever you want.  You can also follow [...]