For the last few years I’ve been learning and using Lisp more, and here is a disorganized, poorly-worded dump of how Lisp changed my opinion about other languages. Static Types (as implemented by C# and Java) are oppressive. I spend most of my time in C#, and it always feels like I’m toiling in the […]
Monday, November 26, 2007
Spent too much damn time debugging the database layer in rails again today. This was the error: OLE error code:80004005 in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Cannot create new connection because in manual or distributed transaction mode. This was getting thrown after an insert, and the problem was very non-obvious. I found one […]