MetaFoundry Blog

NYC Rooftops Go Green!

2008-09-30T13:43:00.006-04:00

Many rooftops in the farthest reaches of the bronx have adopted a methodology of greening their rooftops. I am sure when everyone catches "Wind" we'll all be able to breath just a little easier.

More information on Sustainable South Bronx can be found here:
South Bronx Green Roof

There's a green roof bill in albany to give home owners a tax credit for compliance.
Brownstoner Green Roof

AeroBalloon in Central Park

2008-07-25T10:32:00.003-04:00

Our client AeroBalloon had its latest launch today right here in Central Park. Our Marc was on hand to take a few photos — he designed the banner that surrounds the balloon envelope, and all the signage you'll see throughout the park.

If you're in the New York metro area looking for a real treat, head straight to Cherry Hill in Central Park — rides are being given daily through August 22.

More details at aeroballoon.com.

From the “Say What?” Dept.

2008-06-11T19:11:00.003-04:00

Received in today's email: a newsletter containing the following phrase:

“...professionals are seeking help understanding the best way to achieve the potentially significant upside benefits while minimizing the disruption of change and capturing significant new opportunities in their organization.”

Was this written by an actual person?

Rillito River Project

2008-06-05T09:54:00.000-04:00

Today we launched a new website for the Rillito River Project, an organization in Tucson, AZ, that uses site-specific artworks and performances to draw attention to the plight of the Southwest's vanishing rivers.

Founded and led by Tucson artist and visionary Ellen Benjoya Skotheim, the Rillito River Project is enjoying its first CD release: a recording of a live performance of Patmore Lewis's Elemental Flow, a composition commissioned by the Rillito River Project and performed in a special concert in the dry riverbed of the Rillito River at the base of Tucson's Catalina Mountains.

A reprise concert will be held October 18, 2008. You can learn all about it and how to volunteer or contribute at rillitoriverproject.org.

For MetaFoundry, this represents a conflation of two areas that matter most to us: water and the arts. We love being part of the RRP team and supporting its singular mission and unique programming.

MySQL Query Logging in MAMP

2008-04-25T16:42:00.004-04:00

MAMP is a LAMP environment in an application for OS X. It saves a lot of time getting a local development environment going especially if you're changing computers often. If you use MAMP it may not be immediately straight-forward how to enable MySQL Query Logging since it has an executable that starts and stops MySQL and Apache and it uses a separate MySQL socket.

Why use sql query logging? A great way to learn about or optimize an application is to watch how it interacts with a database. You can issue a command from within an application and see exactly what commands it triggers to MySQL. This is extremely helpful when trying to get a handle on an application that utilizes an abstract and/or highly normalized data structure.

First, a couple warnings. MySQL Query Logging should only be used in development environments. The log files it creates could potentially become humongous in size. Also, it greatly reduces MySQL performance while it is running.

1) Stop MySQL with this command from Terminal


/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqladmin -u root -proot --socket=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock shutdown

2) Issue this command in Terminal


/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld_safe --port=8889 --socket=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock --lower_case_table_names=0 --pid-file=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.pid --log-error=/Applications/MAMP/logs/mysql_error_log --log=/tmp/mysqlLOG.lg &

You can monitor the output of mysql in Terminal with this command:


sudo tail -f /tmp/mysqlLOG.lg

As you issue commands to your local MySQL server you will see them generated instantly in a continuous scroll in a terminal window.

MySQL Query Logging will run until the next to you stop MAMP. It will not do query logging unless you issue the start command as above and include the --log= directive.

If history had been taught like this...

2008-03-02T17:37:00.003-05:00

I think I would have ended up with better grades...

happy holidays all!

2007-12-21T08:44:00.001-05:00

saw this on my friend's blog and thought i'd spread the love...be patient it's fun!

Other People's Lives

2007-11-28T13:40:00.000-05:00

This interested me enough that I figured it was worth posting:
Adoption

Two reasons:
1 - I am korean
2 - I am adopted

Simplicity

2007-10-24T07:20:00.000-04:00

You probably already know that the singular destination on the web for learning about some of the world's most interesting ideas and people is the TED website. One of our favorite talks there is by John Maeda, the keen observer and charming advocate of simplicity not just in design and technology but in life as a whole.

Whiskey into Rain

2007-10-12T21:01:00.000-04:00

Last night went to see Tori Amos. I've never seen her before but I've liked her since that time I saw the video for "Crucify" on 120 Minutes. It was a total surprise. I used to set the VCR and record the show since it was on at midnight on Mondays and I had school.

Then I'd watch it and edit the vids I didn't want. I remember thinking she was gonna be some weirdo UK sort of person when the video started with an all white backdrop. Then suddenly she started singing and I was engaged for the whole time. I think her music in many ways saved me... from my own teenage self-destructive behavior.

So since that time to now I've liked her and yet never got to see her... The concert was amazing to me. Hearing her perform live wasn't new, I have bootlegs and various VHS tapes of her from tv specials. Seeing her and feeling the music in the room, along with the lights which were trying to catch the emotive quality of her work added to the whole show. Although sometimes the lights would pan out into the audience and blind... that wasn't much fun. It was like a bunch of trucks coming at you with high beams on.

Her new album is called American Doll Posse. The photos on it are of her dressed as several women who represent women throughout time that we know of - by myth, tales, and folklore. Each woman is also an aspect of a person. "Pieces of me you've never seen." If you go to her website you can read the statement of the new album and her bio. It's really interesting how she incorporated a feminist perspective into these various personas and then expresses them throughout the album. It wasn't a shocker to me that she was going to make an album comprised of different "people."

In interviews I've read over the years she has talked of reincarnation, spirits, fairies, and ghosts that all inspire her and talk to her. She's got this sort of delirium/desire/despair thing going on that makes her so appealing and yet so bizarre. No wonder I like her stuff.

This one is from last night:

On Art

2007-10-06T15:58:00.000-04:00

"I'm an artist." The words roll off my tongue as smoothly as a mouthful of gravel. "I'm a musician," says the man at the coffee shop in Williamsburg. And we, reflexively, think "no, you, my friend, are a waiter." But what is it about art that makes us humans so uncomfortable? What is art anyway?

It's a tiresome question, I know, but it's been brought to my attention again recently upon reading Alberto Ruiz's recommended Practice and Science of Drawing, by Harold Speed (available, by the way, for free download from the Gutenburg Project). Here's what ole Harold has to say about art:

"Here is a savage, shouting and flinging his arms and legs about in wild delight; he is not an artist, although he may be moved by life and feeling. But let this shouting be done on some ordered plan, to a rhythm expressive of joy and delight, and his leg and arm movements governed by it also, and he has become an artist, and singing and dancing (possibly the oldest of the arts) will result."

"Or take the case of one who has been deeply moved by something he has seen, say a man killed by a wild beast, which he wishes to tell his friends. If he just explains the facts as he saw them, making no effort to order his words so as to make the most telling impression upon his hearers and convey to them something of the feelings that are stirring in him, if he merely does this, he is not an artist, although the recital of such a terrible incident may be moving. But the moment he arranges his words so as to convey in a telling manner not only the plain facts, but the horrible feelings he experienced at the sight, he has become an artist. And if he further orders his words The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Practice & Science Of Drawing to a rhythmic beat, a beat in sympathy with his subject, he has become still more artistic, and a primitive form of poetry will result."

"Or in building a hut, so long as a man is interested solely in the utilitarian side of the matter, as are so many builders to-day, and just puts up walls as he needs protection from wild beasts, and a roof to keep out the rain, he is not yet an artist. But the moment he begins to consider his work with some feeling, and arranges the relative sizes of his walls and roof so that they answer to some sense he has for beautiful proportion, he has become an artist, and his hut has some architectural pretensions. Now if his hut is of wood, and he paints it to protect it from the elements, nothing necessarily artistic has been done. But if he selects colours that give him pleasure in their arrangement, and if the forms his colour masses assume are designed with some personal feeling, he has invented a primitive form of decoration. And likewise the savage who, wishing to illustrate his description of a strange animal he has seen, takes a piece of burnt wood and draws on the wall his idea of what it looked like, a sort of catalogue of its appearance in its details, he is not necessarily an artist. It is only when he draws under the influence of some feeling, of some pleasure he felt in the appearance of the animal, that he becomes an artist. Of course in each case it is assumed that the men have the power to be moved by these things, and whether they are good or poor artists will depend on the quality of their feeling and the fitness of its expression."

Clearly art is a very personal thing indeed, which is probably why my rote reaction is to vomit a little in my mouth. But since we're talking about the subject, I might as well offer up my own personal definition. Upon reflection, I am struck by the similarities of the feeling of creating art and of viewing it. Both cause one to be thrown with such force into almost an alternate dimension of visual experience. So to me, art is the experience of swooning at life. It may be more rudimentary than Harold's more technical, two-pronged Feeling and Execution, but for me it's that moment of breath catching in your throat, of your heart suddenly dropping into your stomach. Whether walking down the street looking for things to photograph, sitting slack-jawed before the Dying Slave at the Louvre, or experiencing the divine curve of the model's back at drawing class, to me anything that causes one to step outside the mundanity of the everyday and just swoon for a moment at life is truly an act of art.

Your milage may vary, of course, and really, since we're speaking of such personal things, I wouldn't have it any other way. So Dave McKean, I love you dearly, but I cannot agree with you that design is not art. The rhythmic curves of Pierre Paulin's orange slice chair, a work of design, are just too swoon-worthy to me.

And me? I'm no artist. I'm just a Swooner at Life, thanks.

NYC Alternate Side Parking Rule Suspensions

2007-09-27T18:57:00.000-04:00

Did anyone know that alternate side parking rules were suspended today for Succoth? Tomorrow, too! I certainly didn't know. And after I'd spent all this time yesterday driving around finding the perfect spot on the "Thursday-Safe" side of the street. Well no more of that. I've entered the 2007 NYC alternate side parking rule suspensions calender into my calendar and is available here as an ics file ready for import into your favorite ics-compatible calendar. I'll post a 2008 calendar when dates become available from the DOT. Enjoy!

iAdditives releases iStrobe Strobe Light for iPhone!

2007-09-21T14:19:00.000-04:00

iAdditives, home of dumb and nutritious iPhone/iTouch applications, releases its first and quite possibly its dumbest iPhone application ever: iStrobe. Now you can bring the party on your iPhone wherever you go. Also, iStrobe is great whenever you want someone to tell you that strobe lights can cause seizures. iAdditives is working on its second product, a candle votive simulator called iAmbience. We hope you enjoy our sandbox for dumb iPhone ideas.

Bubble Opera

2007-09-15T16:45:00.000-04:00

Our friend Janie Fink's delightful new volume of poetry will be released on October 1. The ingenious title poem is witty, poignant, sexy, inventive, and full of those little truths we experience daily and rarely notice. Janie reminds us to pay attention and appreciate them.

We made a little home for Bubble Opera on the web – read all about it there.

Tiki: Our New Basecamp Issue Tracker!

2007-09-13T14:49:00.001-04:00

Haven't you heard? If you've wished for a full-featured bug and task tracker that works with Basecamp, you're not alone. We felt the same, and to that end we're proud to announce our brand-spanking new Basecamp Bug/Task Tracker: Tiki!

Tiki integrates with your Basecamp People, Projects, Companies, and To-Do lists, providing you with a simple but sophisticated issue-tracking lifecycle, including traditional ticket routing and approval, a detailed history, notification lists, time tracking, due dates, and super awesome search.

Take a tour and sign up now for the public beta at:

http://www.tikiden.com

A Visit to the New NY Times Building

2007-09-11T10:51:00.000-04:00

We had the pleasure and honor to meet with some folks at The New York Times the other day, and when our meeting was over, they kindly offered to give us a tour.

If you have ever set foot in the old NY Times building, the expression "Old Grey Lady" probably conjures more images in your mind of dark, forlorn corridors and crammed-in people and stuff than of the pre-color version of the paper itself. The executive offices, used by the least number of people, were quite beautiful, but the building's most-used space, the lobby, had all but lost its erstwhile grandeur.

The new building, by staggering contrast, is bright, exquisite, and wholly fresh. Moreover, it's the realization of the integration of function and form to which the greatest design aspires. This hits you immediately when you enter the lobby, a huge, natural-light-filled space enclosed by glass walls, one of which is festooned with an exhibit of photos called Building the Times by Annie Leibovitz. The high-speed elevator system is "smart" – it asks passengers to specify their desired floor before entering, and an automated dispatcher sends you an elevator magically filled with passengers who have the same destination.

The building's climate control system is the stuff of science fiction. A "curtain" of horizontally mounted ceramic tubes reflect or absorb light based on season, time of day, and day- and sunlight levels. This helps keep the exterior of the building at a constant temperature, so the building's HVAC systems don't have to work as hard as they would otherwise. Automated, time-triggered blinds on the outer walls raise and lower as the day progresses to reduce sunlight glare. And throughout the building, localized, adjustable floor vents enable occupants to align air flow with their own comfort levels.

The high, glass ceiling of the newsroom – the "belly of the beast" – evokes the spacious radiance of an atrium. It's almost startling for those familiar with the old newsroom. As we passed a glass-walled conference room filled with earnest-looking faces, my guide remarked that the team within was deciding what stories would be run in the paper the following day. One might assume that these meetings would be conducted in a windowless cloister in some secret location inaccessible to the hoi polloi. But in the new Times building, there are no such barriers. There are a few offices, but even those have semi-transparent walls. Most people work in low-walled cubicles that not only foster an open-plan feel, but also enable you to turn from your monitor and look out the expansive glass walls to city you serve. Here, everyone enjoys the view.

After the tour, we had lunch in the cafeteria, a giant, split-level space that features an organic and locally grown selection straight from the Whole Foods playbook.

Exiting the elevator and crossing the lobby, gazing again at the collage of Leibovitz photos, one is struck that Piano's vision was simple: a truly humane office environment, built for people and the way they work.

time warping

2007-09-10T22:19:00.000-04:00

I've been going through my collection of music videos. When I was about 12 I started recording videos off of MTV and late night talk shows of musicians/bands/artists that were interesting to me or that I liked. This summer I had the opportunity to borrow a DVD recorder and downsize the clutter. I've been taking these tapes and recording the videos and live footage onto the hard drive then transferring to a DVD. One of the funniest things I think is seeing where my tastes changed and watching some of these videos...and listening to the lyrics. Have you ever thought about how cheesy some of those glam rock band ballads were? I stopped recording videos and live performances around 2005.

So let's take a small trip through the late 80s and 90s to about 2 yrs ago.

1) Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
2) L.A. Guns - Ballad of Jayne
3) R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
4) Metallica - One (still one of the best videos)
5) Jellyfish - Baby's Coming Back
6) They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start
7) Aerosmith - MTV Unplugged
8) Tori Amos - God
9) Nirvana - Come As You Are
10) Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
11) Pearl Jam - MTV Unplugged
12) EMF - Unbelieveable
13) Smashing Pumpkins - Today
14) Guns N' Roses - November Rain (could never find that short story)
15) Edie Brickell and New Bohemians - What I Am
16) Elastica - Connection (remember the snarl?)
17) Sqiurrel Nut Zippers - Put the Lid On It
18) Fiona Apple - Sleep to Dream
19) Poe - Hello
20) Save Ferris - The World is New
21) Beck - Devil's Haircut
22) Ani Difranco - Sessions at West 54
23) Aimee Mann - Pavlov's Bell
24) Liz Phair - Extraordinary
25) Indigo Girls - One Perfect World

Loopy Inspiration

2007-09-06T23:02:00.000-04:00

A friend sent this link to me. It's a recording of a live in-studio session of "Just For Now" by Imogen Heap (in Toronto, I think). A simply beautiful convergence of high and low tech.

Topological Sort in PHP

2007-09-02T21:37:00.001-04:00

I recently had the need to put together a dependency sort routine, also known as a topological sort, and assumed there were millions available in PHP. I did not immediately find a stand-alone class (i'm sure there are many, but after searching I decided I liked the challenge of putting together my own). So nothing super glitzy or flashy here, but maybe something handy to you in a pinch. The Wikipedia entry was clear and helpful for breaking down the logical steps and after a few variations I arrived at the following class (and helper Node class). If you find it helpful please use it in your code. This code was written in PHP5 but should be compatible with PHP4.

A topological sort is useful when you want to load a bunch of libraries or modules some of which may be dependent upon each other. And it has many applications in graphing and plotting, especially with regard to vertices on a graph.

I want to also thank Jacob Good for his blog entry on Topological Sorting in C# which really helped get me started.

<?php
/**
* Sorts a series of dependency pairs in linear order
*
* usage:
* $t = new TopologicalSort($dependency_pairs);
* $load_order = $t->tsort();
*
* where dependency_pairs is in the form:
* $name => (depends on) $value
*
*/
class TopologicalSort
{
var $nodes = array();

/**
* Dependency pairs are a list of arrays in the form
* $name => $val where $key must come before $val in load order.
*
*/
function TopologicalSort($dependencies=array(), $parse=false)
{
if ($parse) $dependencies = $this->parseDependencyList($dependencies);
// turn pairs into double-linked node tree
foreach($dependencies as $key => $dpair) {
 list($module, $dependency) = each($dpair);
 if (! isset($this->nodes[$module]))
  $this->nodes[$module] = new TSNode($module);
 if (! isset($this->nodes[$dependency]))
  $this->nodes[$dependency] = new TSNode($dependency);
 if (! in_array($dependency,$this->nodes[$module]->children))
  $this->nodes[$module]->children[] = $dependency;
 if (! in_array($module,$this->nodes[$dependency]->parents))
  $this->nodes[$dependency]->parents[] = $module;
}
}

/**
* Perform Topological Sort
*
* @param array $nodes optional array of node objects may be passed.
* Default is  $this->nodes created in constructor.
* @return sorted array
*/
function tsort($nodes=array())
{
// use this->nodes if it is populated and no param passed
if (! @count($nodes) && count($this->nodes))
$nodes = $this->nodes;

// get nodes without parents
$root_nodes = array_values($this->getRootNodes($nodes));

// begin algorithm
$sorted = array();
while(count($nodes)>0) {
 // check for circular reference
 if (count($root_nodes) == 0) return false;

 // remove this node from root_nodes
 // and add it to the output
 $n = array_pop($root_nodes);
 $sorted[] = $n->name;

 // for each of its  children
 // queue the new node finally remove the original
 for($i=(count($n->children)-1); $i >= 0; $i--) {
  $childnode = $n->children[$i];
  // remove the link from this node to its
  // children ($nodes[$n->name]->children[$i]) AND
  // remove the link from each child to this
  // parent ($nodes[$childnode]->parents[?]) THEN
  // remove this child from this node
  unset($nodes[$n->name]->children[$i]);
  $parent_position = array_search($n->name,$nodes[$childnode]->parents);
  unset($nodes[$childnode]->parents[$parent_position]);
  // check if this child has other parents
  // if not, add it to the root nodes list
  if (!count($nodes[$childnode]->parents)) array_push($root_nodes,$nodes[$childnode]);
  }

 // nodes.Remove(n);
 unset($nodes[$n->name]);
}
return $sorted;
}

/**
* Returns a list of node objects that do not have parents
*
* @param array $nodes array of node objects
* @return array of node objects
*/
function getRootNodes($nodes)
{
$output = array();
foreach($nodes as $name => $node)
 if (!count($node->parents)) $output[$name] = $node;
return $output;
}

/**
* Parses an array of dependencies into an array of dependency pairs
*
* The array of dependencies would be in the form:
* $dependency_list = array(
*  "name" => array("dependency1","dependency2","dependency3"),
*  "name2" => array("dependencyA","dependencyB","dependencyC"),
*  ...etc
* );
*
* @param array $dlist Array of dependency pairs for use as parameter in tsort method
* @return array
*/
function parseDependencyList($dlist=array())
{
$output = array();
foreach($dlist as $name => $dependencies)
 foreach($dependencies as $d) array_push($output, array($d => $name));
return $output;
}
}

/**
* Node class for Topological Sort Class
*
*/
class TSNode
{
var $name;
var $children = array();
var $parents = array();

function TSNode($name="") {
$this->name = $name;
}
}
?>

Here is an example implementation for a series of modules which much be loaded based on pre-defined dependencies:

<?php

// define dependencies
// these definitions might be loaded from various modules at runtime
$module_dependencies['user'] = array('database','system','network','admin');
$module_dependencies['database'] = array('system','network');
$module_dependencies['network'] = array('system');
$module_dependencies['admin'] = array('system','network','database');
// in this example, the module called "system" has no dependencies

// pass this dependency tree to the constructor
// If the second parameter is true, it signals the passed array
// must first be converted internally into dependency pairs
$t = new TopologicalSort($module_dependencies, true);

$safe_load_order = $t->tsort();

// if tsort returns false, there was a dependency loop
if (! $safe_load_order)
 die("There was a loop in dependency requirements.");

print_r($safe_load_order);

?>

As I wrote above, I did find some implementations in other languages. And within some larger code libraries in PHP. But I just wanted a stand-alone class. Here is a topological sort in Perl. And here is one in Java. And here is one in Ruby. And here is one even built into Unix.

organic art

2007-08-25T19:48:00.000-04:00

while browsing designboom.com i came across two intriguing installations using plastic straws...i wonder if the artists have seen each other's work?

tokujin yoshioka - rememberance installation, 2006,
(this show featured work from the past 3 years, i wonder if this came out in 2003, the same year as ms. donovan's haze?

The ‘cloud installation of 550,000 transparent straws' was designed for a window display at maison hermes in tokyo. bunches of straws are tightly accumlated together to suggest clouds. the use of weightless materials expresses the idea of ‘formless’ and ‘fluid air’.

VS.

Tara Donovan, Haze, 2003, Stacked Clear Plastic Drinking Straws

uses common, everyday, consumable objects such as scotch tape, drinking straws, plastic cups and paper plates to create incredibly organic sculptures that mimic natural landscapes, clouds, cell structures, fungus... to suggest the biological growth of man-made objects.

the new polaroid

2007-08-24T12:48:00.000-04:00

Zink's Integrated Digital Camera and Printer
how cool is this?! The integrated digital camera/printer is a full featured digital camera with a built-in full color printer. i wonder what the pricing will be.

wonsaponatime

2007-08-22T19:42:00.000-04:00

I've been wearing glasses/contacts since I was about 10. Yesterday I went and got LASIK surgery to correct my vision. The positives of this are immense, the conveniences of having 20/20 or 20/15 as the case may be are great. However, the healing time will take weeks to months.

I spent the evening listening to Neil Gaiman's Stardust - once a comic book, then a novel, now a movie. I recommend it. "Are we human because we gaze at the stars? Or do we gaze at them because we are human?" I also thought of things I did and haven't done in so long, one of them being the various types of martial arts I used to take. At one point I was on the road to a first degree black belt but stopped. Then I took judo, got tired of learning how to fall, and stopped. Then I took a self-defense class offered by a martial arts school in Fredonia, NY and ended up working and training there for 2 years in their Kung Fu program. Since I was a broke college kid, the deal was that I would mop, dust, and put away all the materials we used for free class.

I learned the most in those two years. Stances of defense, stances of resistance, to weaponry - to intricate, meditative moves that required balance, calmness, and swiftness that I've since lost. It seems my teachers are no longer teaching in Fredonia. However, I was able to track down a school and some history: here.

Misty Bradigan is on the left, with her husband Jerry, Master Reeders and Marilynn Reeders. Mitsy was my teacher and had a lot of faith in me. She helped me do amazing things like touch the ground as one would touch their toes, but I was standing on several blocks of wood about a foot higher than I am. She also helped me learn to focus and break through inches of wood with an open hand as well as break a cinder block. I doubt I could do this now, it's been 10 years.

Now I'm thinking of all the other things I used to do that I miss and probably kept me sane.

The Green Harlem House

2007-08-22T11:26:00.000-04:00

Designed by Brooklyn architect Hannah Purdy.
inhabit.com takes a first hand look at this eco-friendly townhouse in Harlem.

In the "Building Green in Harlem" video series, Dwell follows a New York couple through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the contractors to finalizing the design.

Watch The Video from Dwell
Check out Green Street Inc.

Big car with a small footprint

2007-08-17T13:13:00.000-04:00

Smart Cars are coming to the US in 2008. Finally!
Take a test drive near you.

"smart is a vehicle that challenges the status quo and appeals to your sense of adventure and to your desire for a unique driving experience. Smart embodies innovation, functionality and the joy of driving."

www.smartusa.com

Where's my t-shirt?!

2007-08-08T18:54:00.000-04:00

An interesting Roundtable on Women in Development from RailsConf via the Ruby on Rails Podcast:

Part I
Part II