Socially-Conscious Networking
The Rails community has social networking sites as well as socially-conscious sites. Does anyone know of any sites where the two meet? Or does these communities form de-facto in social networking sites?
Archive for October, 2007
The Case of the Missing Rails Books
Dear Oreilly, As an avid book buyer, I’m writing to inquire as to the whereabouts of Programming Rails and Rails in A Nutshell. I wonder what the Jruby folks would say?. (Or maybe I don’t have to wonder?) Guess this gives me more time to finish my Erlang book. Thanks.
Mongrel and Leopard OS X
Just an fyi: Mongrel 1.0.3 and the new Leopard OS X both landed on about the same day. If you recently upgraded and you’re running all of your Rails stuff using local settings as opposed to relying upon the Rails stuff in the base Leopard install, you’ll need to upgrade to the latest Xcode in [...]
Challenge #2: Brand Affiliation
It’s highly unlikely I’ll ever write a lick of Erlang code (or finish the book for that matter). Nor is it at all likely that I’ll ever be in a position to use the ANTLR parser generator. I like to think I buy this stuff because I’m intellectually curious. While that’s perhaps partially true, it’s [...]
Features and Function and Foolishness
Two interesting recent explorations of features gone awry. As well as interesting counterpoints (or opinions) from Donald Norman, Joel On Software and the always delightful Zed Shaw. Random side note: it’s quite cool all of the things one can do with Mongrel…Merb is a good example of using Mongrel handlers to great affect. Even better, [...]
Challenge #1: Create Meaningful Content
The students needed to know how to fit the tetanus stuff into their lives; the addition of the map and times when the shots were available shifted the booklet from an abstract lesson in medical risk — a lesson no different from the countless other academic lessons they had received over their academic career — [...]
