finding half a worm! oops, wrong punchline. no, the worst thing is finding a zero. twice in the last week i have had to rewrite some code to handle an application which was using zero as a magic value instead of populating a numeric column with null. one of these columns was a code which...

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even as its pushes the opendocument format, openoffice.org — and new member ibm — are trying to deliver better compatibility with microsoft office. good idea. this week, as its annual conference gets underway in spain, openoffice.org released a version 2.3 update of its open source office suite that offers improved compatibility with microsoft excel [...]

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david

currently keynoting railsconf europe in berlin (notes from his keynote).

keynoting the mima 2007 summit in minneapolis, mn on october 3rd.

storytelling at the in providence, ri on oct 10-11.

speaking at the future of web design conference in nyc on nov 7.

we’re available to speak at your event, workshop, or conference. topics include getting real, conceptual interface design, rails/programming, collaboration strategies, and entrepreneurship. just get in touch by emailing email [at] 37signals.com with details. thanks.