http://www.industryzero.com It is really about nothing Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:09:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking at the Olympic medal count, it reflects the new world order.  US is no longer the super power if sport is an indication.  Even sports were used to be dominated by US such as tracks and boxing, US is no longer the powerhouse that it once was.  Yes, we ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/08/19/are-we-still-number-one/ Here are the three pillars of a modern society:  Energy, health and education.  We need to have sustainable renewable energy so that all of our modern industries and life can depend on.   Health and education is the basis of human capital.  We need to a healthy population and a health ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/08/14/three-pillars-of-a-modern-society/ Google map's infowindow is not showing up today due to a bug in Google map.  Here is the thread.ShareThis http://www.industryzero.com/2008/07/21/google-map-broken-today/ I tried out clearspring's platform today to develop and deploy a widget.  It is as easy as drinking milk and eating cookie.  In less than 15 minutes, I was able to develop a widget and publish it to major platforms like facebooks, Yahoo, Google, MSN and Netvibes.  If I were ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/07/18/use-clearspring-to-develop-and-publish-widget/ I was trying to install ruby-xslt on my Ubuntu laptop after I installed on my Mac. When I do a sudo gem install ruby-xslt, I got the following: gem install ruby-xsltBuilding native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ruby-xslt: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension./usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/07/17/how-to-install-ruby-xslt-on-ubuntu/ No software can last forever. My first commercial rails app (revolution health's symptom checker) has been retired. The reason for the retirement is that we want to replace one that doesn't require paying license fee for the backend and data. The original one used rails as ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/07/11/my-first-commercial-rails-app-died-with-a-bang/ My sister-in-law works for one of the big old companies.  She told me the bureaucracy and weird policy in her company.  She has to take a safe driving course (every employee have to do that) once a year because the company are afraid of lawsuit in the even if an ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/07/08/why-big-oil-companies-will-become-obsolete/ I was able to get Groovy installed on my Mac installed, up and running in no time. I can now start playing with it. It is pretty simple, just download, uppack and change two environment variables and you are good to go. The only thing about Groovy ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/07/03/got-groovy-installed-up-and-running/ We (the place I work) are having a debate on if we should move our infrastructure to VM that run ruby instead of default Ruby interpreter that is built natively for different OS. Running Ruby on VM can provide a better security and simplify the upgrading and ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/06/26/jruby-or-rubinius/ There is an article yesterday that Microsoft, Google and some other major players have agreed on EHR standard. The standard is drafted by Markle foundation's connect for health. The standard document is here. This could be very interesting. It covers a variety of principle and guidelines on ... http://www.industryzero.com/2008/06/26/microsoft-and-google-agrees-on-electronic-heath-records-ehr-standard/