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New 37signals targets for Rails extraction. 37signals has announced two upcoming products: Campfire and Sunrise. This is significant for Rails development because all 37signals applications has historically been the main source for new features in Rails. Sunrise has already spawned a good number of features for 1.1. There are the polymorphic associations and join model… Continue reading New 37signals targets for Rails extraction

Freezing your Rails when you deploy shared. If you’re running a Ruby on Rails application on a shared host, it’s super-double-plus recommended to freeze your Rails. Freezing your Rails means putting the framework into vendor/rails instead of floating with whatever gems that are installed on the host. Because if you do so, you’ll automatically be… Continue reading Freezing your Rails when you deploy shared

Sunrise: 37signals' CRM tool for small business is coming soon. Hot on the heels of the ambiguous Campfire announcement, we want to be a little more specific about the other application we’re working on right now. Great progress is being made and we expect to show the product at the Getting Real Workshop in January.… Continue reading Sunrise: 37signals' CRM tool for small business is coming soon

Dividing with 'such careless honesty'. Slashdot is an awesome view into the minds of a very varied population of programmers. Granted, such a sight is often befuddled, obscure, or, well, downright stupid. But its real and there's a lot of insight to be had when watching from a sober distance. Take the announcement of Rails… Continue reading Dividing with 'such careless honesty'

I had a great time at A Christmas Carol at the North Shore Music Theatre tonight.

Infinite dictatorial power. Since I pointed yesterday to Bruce Schneier's piece on Bush's use of the NSA for domestic spying, I'd be remiss if I didn't also send you his way to read today's piece on what the spying means for privacy rights, and for the idea of Presidential power. It feels to me like… Continue reading Infinite dictatorial power

Our dictatorial President. Add my voice to the chorus recommending that everyone read Bruce Schneier's essay about the Bush Administration's illegal use of the National Security Agency for domestic wiretapping. If you haven't been keeping up to speed on this story in the past week, Schneier's piece will catch you up, and help you understand… Continue reading Our dictatorial President

Dennis Kennedy's Legal Technology Predictions for 2006: Small Steps for Most Firms, Giant Leaps for a Few Firms [LLRX.com]

Review of 12 Weeks with Geeks. So Joel finally got his DVD out to me and I had a chance to watch Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks last weekend. I don't have much to report. As a “film” it was well done. (aka: production quality was good). It was interesting watching the 12 weeks progress.… Continue reading Review of 12 Weeks with Geeks

Bruce Eckel: Ruby is bad Python, but good Perl. Bruce Eckel charges Bruce Tate with quick dismissals and selecting a winner without a race in Beyond Java: In many places he plays fast and loose, and almost at the end of the book he declares that he doesn't have time to learn these other languages… Continue reading Bruce Eckel: Ruby is bad Python, but good Perl