David Geary says Rails is 5x-10x faster
Posted by Curt Hibbs
Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
Its heartening to hear that I wasn’t completely crazy when I claimed you could develop web applications ten times faster with Rails. David Geary just said that he thinks 5x-10x is justified.
David also hits the nail squarely on the head when he says that lack of i18n support is a serious hole in Rails’ functionality. A recent thread on the Rails mailing list has been kicking this topic around. Hopefully something good will come out of it.
I have one very minor correction in in what David Geary said in his post. I didn’t say that Rails development was 10x faster than “any” Java framework, I said that it was 10x faster than a “typical” Java framework. I was mostly thinking of the ubiquitous Struts, although if I were doing any serious Java web development I’d, personally, be using Spring instead.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
This is all-too-funny and all-too-real…
Avishek Sen Gupta report’s on his attempt to return to Java after weeks
of Ruby coding. Its short, so I don’t want to spoil it. Just go read Oh
shit! What
now?.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
Have you been looking for a simple straightforward explanation of Ruby, Rails and AJAX that just makes sense without all of the hype? Well, look no more. Matt Lightner has done just that in his article What Every Webmaster and Web Developer MUST Know About Ruby on Rails and AJAX.
Matt works for Site5, a web host provider, which has just announced support for Ruby on Rails.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
Confession: I shamelessly stole this title from an LA Times article.
I love movies. Before I had kids I used to go see just about every movie that came out. I even fantasized about becoming a movie critic just so I could get paid to go to the theater.
But the theater experience is not what it used to be. The screens are smaller, the snacks cost more than the tickets, there’s no longer an usher to keep unruly patrons in line, and I have to sit through 20 minutes of advertisements! Is it any wonder that I rarely go to the theater any more and that I have an extensive collection of DVDs?
As The Big Picture points out, this is a major cause of declining theater revenues, and just watch as MPAA tries to pin this decline on piracy as a strategy for getting restrictive legislation passed!
The movie industry is doing this to itself.
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Google Moon
Posted by Curt Hibbs
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
I love astronomical photography almost as much as movies. If this description fits you, too (well, at least the astronomical photography part), then you should check out Google Moon.
UPDATE: Try zooming all the way for a surprise easter-egg.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
Over the last year there have been a number of wanna-be Rails copycats (this is a good thing). But none of them have yet matured to the point where they could be considered a serious alternative to Rails.
Now there’s a new kid on the block who claims to be a viable alternative to Rails: Django (how do you pronounce that?). Well… at least Jason Huggins at ThoughtWorks thinks so. I have no idea if this assertion is true. But I’d really like to here from any Python fans who check it out (especially if you already know Rails).
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
In a single day David Geary posted two great blog entries!
His first post describes his sweltering Rails presentation in an un-air-conditioned auditorium (during a heat wave). He did something that was pure genius—he had a volunteer from the audience come up on stage and develop a Rails web application of his own choice (with David’s guidance). What an incredibly effective way to demonstrate the power and simplicity of Rails! I’m going to have to work this in to my own presentations.
His second post was a subtle comic masterpiece. I’m not going to spoil it for you though… you’ll just have to go read it for yourself.
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Hot News: The first Rails book is out!
Posted by Curt Hibbs
Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:04:00 GMT
Dave Thomas just announced that the first Rails book, Agile Web Development with Rails, has been finalized and sent to the printer! You can download the PDF now, and get the hard copy in a couple weeks.
Just like Programming Ruby, this excellent book is destined to be a classic that will always be within arms reach.
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PHP doesn’t scale. Perl doesn’t scale. Java doesn’t scale. Ruby on Rails doesn’t scale.
Posted by Curt Hibbs
Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:02:00 GMT
I think Lucas Carlton got it right. Bottom line: “the proof is in the pudding” (translation for those not familiar with English idioms: the proof is in the results).
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:00:00 GMT
There’s no denying it… programming has become more complex than it should be. I’ve done my share of rationalizing this situation by telling myself that it is just the nature of the programming beast – so, just deal with it!
But some years ago, extensive work with JavaScript reminded me of the productivity I had enjoyed when I worked in Smalltalk and my search for “something better” lead me to Ruby. My sense of productivity returned with a vengeance only to be solidified when Ruby on Rails entered the picture (Rails is a wildly successful expression of the concept of less code).
Now, Ryan Tomayko has recognized that there is a trend afoot – a real movement – and has decided to open the doors on a site dedicated to this emerging trend:
lesscode.org is a place to advocate, discuss, and practice the art of using less code to get more done. We shun complexity and challenge the status-quo when it impedes our ability to simplify our development tools and processes. We appreciate Python, Ruby, LAMP, REST, KISS, worse is better, and talk like a pirate day.
Please check out lesscode.org, support it and its goals. You’ll be glad you did!
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