Author: Rich Manalang

a counterpoint to the previous post

a counterpoint to the previous post

Longer title: Top 10 Reasons Why Anything and Everything Related to Java Programming and Open-Source Frameworks Sucks Major Ass in Comparison to Anything and Everything Related to Ruby and Rails

Longer title: Top 10 Reasons Why Anything and Everything Related to Java Programming and Open-Source Frameworks Sucks Major Ass in Comparison to Anything and Everything Related to Ruby and Rails

"He even went as far as to say that developing web applications in Java after working with Rails would probably not be a particularly pleasant experience for him. Wow."

"He even went as far as to say that developing web applications in Java after working with Rails would probably not be a particularly pleasant experience for him. Wow."

"Most enterprise developers believe that Rails is a toy framework, or have a religious devotion to the familiar and tend to fear change."

"Most enterprise developers believe that Rails is a toy framework, or have a religious devotion to the familiar and tend to fear change."

Got innocently naive questions about Oracle? Ask some members of the community at getsatisfaction/oracle.

Got innocently naive questions about Oracle? Ask some members of the community at getsatisfaction/oracle.

nice screenshots of what’s to come

"Whereas Google is a brilliant technological hack, Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering. Facebook’s appeal is both obvious and rather subtle…"

not sure how good the content is, but sounds like a good idea for new rubyists

nice event observer for jQuery… might be added to jQuery 1.2 core!!!

Book on how to build social networking sites with Ruby on Rails

Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.

Too bad I work from home. I’d love to play faceball with my co-workers.

"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

"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."