Posted by Curt Hibbs
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT
Ok, I can’t stand it any more… I just burst out laughing and my
coworkers are giving me that suspicious eye.
This “Ruby on Rael” stuff was ok when I saw the original
photo mockup (Sam
Ruby on Rael
Dornfest). I was even more amused when I
saw the real thing.
But I totally lost it when I read that Sam was working his way through
the Rails book and then this
comment to Sam
Ruby (posted by Rabble of
Odeo fame):
Things will get really confusing if you start doing ruby development
sam. It’s hard enough to find information about xml and feed related
issues in the ruby language. If you started contributing to ruby related
projects it’ll even get more confusing…
Maybe we need some way of resolving the namespace conflict,
ruby-lang and ruby-person?
All we need now is a ruby project called ‘sam’ then it will get to
be really fun.
It’d be great to have you playing with ruby, name space conflicts
aside.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Fri, 05 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT
O’Reilly’s CodeZoo was launched last April supporting only Java, but just two days ago a new release of CodeZoo now includes Ruby and Python!
CodeZoo is a site for any developer who wants to avoid writing code. We believe the best code is the code you don’t have to write—the pieces already done for you, as well or better as you would do them yourself.
CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and the best of your projects. It’s a fast-forward button for your compiler.
This is something that the Ruby community badly needed: a centralized place where Ruby packages can be categorized, reviewed, rated, and commented on. CodeZoo goes beyond even this with download tracking, RSS feeds, and much more.
This is an excellent compliment to RubyForge. RubyForge is an excellent home for open source Ruby projects, but provides no way to review, rate, or comment on Ruby packages. This makes it hard to find things and determine the quality of what you do find.
What would be really useful would be some basic cross-site integration between CodeZoo and RubyForge. I’m going to think about what could be done here and see if I can cajole the masters of both sites to cooperate for the benefit of us Ruby developers. But even as things stand today, this is a major step forward.
What you can do
The benefit of CodeZoo comes from us, the Ruby developers, when we add to its knowledge base. Please take some time to go to CodeZoo and review, comment, and rate various Ruby packages. O’Reilly has put a lot of effort into this site. Now its up to us to make it truly useful.
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Posted by Curt Hibbs
Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT
Last night, David Heinemeier Hansson was given the Google/O’Reilly Best Hacker of the Year award for Ruby on Rails.
I think this is well deserved for someone who has changed the way we think about building web applications.
Congratulations!
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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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