The power of readable metaprogramming. Oliver Steele is Chief Software Architect at Laszlo Systems and he’s digging into Ruby on Rails: During my last vacation it took about five lazy vacation days with Ruby on Rails to implement a fairly sophisticated 40-page web application with five models, two metamodels, CRUD, cookies, image upload, and login.… Continue reading The power of readable metaprogramming
The story behind Rails at O’Reilly
The story behind Rails at O’Reilly. Jason Fried from 37signals talks about the origins of Rails with Marc Hedlund from O’Reilly: Ruby on Rails is the open source web application framework we extracted from Basecamp. When we built Basecamp we didn’t know we were building Rails at the same time, but that’s exactly how it… Continue reading The story behind Rails at O’Reilly
Stever Robbins on email overload
Stever Robbins on email overload. Great article on dealing with high email volume that focuses on what you can do to craft email messages that are easy to process, read, and answer. [43 Folders]
Groove and a few other things
Groove and a few other things. I saw the announcement today that Groove is being acquired by Microsoft and Ray Ozzie is joining as another CTO. Congratulations to Ray and all the Groove people! I hope this is good for you. For Massachusetts, this is a great thing: Microsoft finally has a real development office… Continue reading Groove and a few other things
How to start a startup
How to start a startup. Paul Graham writes another of his usually interesting essays, this one on How to start a startup. I think he is insufficiently worried about the dangers of venture/vulture capital, but his three core principles are sound. [Ceejbot]
It's the Bill and Ray show
It's the Bill and Ray show. It was only a matter of time (and money)… Microsoft is swallowing Groove Networks. For several years, I've had an intense love-hate relationship with Groove. It's absolutely fantastic to have instant, secure workgroups and a place to put all your data that is not a fragile hard drive or… Continue reading It's the Bill and Ray show
Another case of massive consumer data theft
Another case of massive consumer data theft. It must be the season for playing free and easy with consumer data. Consumer data aggregator Sesint reports that hackers broke into one of their databases and made off the info on 32,000 US consumers. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Tinderbox 2.4
Tinderbox 2.4. Tinderbox 2.4 is now available! It's got tons of important new features: sticky and locked adornments powerful and fast rules smarter agents lots of new XML/HTML export tools The overnights are great: “Huzzah! ….All sorts of new goodies… I will be sorely tempted to spend the rest of this week digging into the… Continue reading Tinderbox 2.4
Eyesite
Eyesite. This is how people look at search results: It's not a theory, it's all sorts of fancy science put to good use. And yes, my headline is a pun. Think about this the next time you want to save a few shekels on where you show up on the screen. Now that we've trained… Continue reading Eyesite
RewriteEngine Tutorial
RewriteEngine Tutorial. Needed to do some fancy footwork with htaccess and rewriting urls for redirection. Found this tutorial on yourhtmlsource.com, which so far seems pretty simple to understand and helpful. [scriptygoddess]