Rails and the Enterprise
"Most enterprise developers believe that Rails is a toy framework, or have a religious devotion to the familiar and tend to fear change."
Halloween is upon us!
All this talk about social software and swimming pools is making me crazy. We need more stupid pet postings on this blog. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but today is Friday and it’s time to lighten it up a bit.
I was looking through the numerous junk mail catalogs we got [...]
getsatisfaction/oracle
Got innocently naive questions about Oracle? Ask some members of the community at getsatisfaction/oracle.
getsatisfaction/oracle
Got innocently naive questions about Oracle? Ask some members of the community at getsatisfaction/oracle.
Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview
nice screenshots of what’s to come
Why Facebook Is the Future
"Whereas Google is a brilliant technological hack, Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering. Facebook’s appeal is both obvious and rather subtle…"
Free Ruby Lessons
not sure how good the content is, but sounds like a good idea for new rubyists
jQuery Live
nice event observer for jQuery… might be added to jQuery 1.2 core!!!
Review: RailsSpace hits the Ruby on Rails learning sweet spot
Book on how to build social networking sites with Ruby on Rails
Tuesday Humor: "Faceball: your face, our balls"
Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.
Tuesday Humor: “Faceball: your face, our balls”
Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.
Is Google on Crack?
"I am 100 percent behind Google’s four conditions, but I see very little likelihood that they will be accepted by the full commission." — Robert Cringley on Google’s plan to bid on the 700mhz spectrum
Joyeur: JRuby Hack Day: August 8, 2007
"Joyent and Sun have announced the first in a series of "Hack Days" taking place in San Francisco. They’ll be looking at JRuby and how to deploy a JRuby on Rails app on a Joyent Accelerator."
On JavaScripting
Now a little something for our techie readers… we do have a few right?
One aspect of Ruby on Rails that I don’t like (surprising, I know) is the bundled Prototype JavaScript library. When Prototype came out, I loved it. The $() selector introduced a novel way of writing JS code. Then other libraries came out [...]
On Hiring a Web Developer
While looking for a developer to hire into our team, I’ve been particularly focused on looking for someone who has a strong web development background. Just because a programmer has written complex c, c++, java code or knows how to hack linux kernels does not mean they can build a web application. A [...]
TwitterCal Lets You Post to Google Calendars from Twitter
IM/SMS as an interface to traditional applications is hot stuff. Think how useful this could be inside the firewall… create/approve expense reports via IM/SMS, look up a contact through IM/SMS, etc.
20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles
20 competitors in the field! Who’s going to aggregate all these aggregators?
Sales Builder AIR Application Update
"Salesbuilder is a Sales Force Automation application that demonstrates local persistence using the embedded SQLite database, data synchronization, native drag-and-drop, and other features such as direct chart manipulation."
PeopleSoft Search
Hot on the heels of the MetaLink search
Understanding the JVM JIT and helping it along
Some performance updates re: jRuby… more hope that jRuby is going to be the main RoR platform in the enterprise. Check out the perf numbers.
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