Not the type of cookies you might expect. The New York Times published a piece today on some new ideas for social networking. I think the ideas are kind of strange personally. Bonding over goldfish crackers or a favorite shampoo? Maybe a really good hummus – that I could see.
Outside of getting real, this is the most interesting series of books I’ve encountered over the past year in regards to following a philosophy of simplicity and all that it entails: Laws of Simplicity
I did an install of Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Mongrel Cluster and Nginx on Slicehost over the weekend and found the following resources to be excellent. The whole experience was eerily easy. Probably shouldn’t even write that in order not to alert the environment demons. Anyway, I decided not to use the deprec gem as I [...]
Martin Fowler is writing a new book on Domain Specific Languages. You can read along and track the books progress here. DSL’s have always been kind of vague in my mind, primarily because I see it applied so broadly (frameworks, tools, ide’s, language features, etc), so it should be interesting to see if this helps [...]
From Jeffrey Zeldman today on A List Apart: Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Read more from Jeffrey Zeldman in his very interesting new article: Understanding Web Design I’ve [...]
Could be a nice full stack if development moves forward on all fronts. I definitely like all three choices: Merb, DataMapper and JQuery. However, opinionated software aside, I’m not I sure really always agree with limiting choices in a stack and prefer Merb’s built-in ORM agnosticism. I haven’t checked out Sinatra or Camping yet, but [...]
Interesting take on some issues with managing multiple social networking sites.
Great post from Ajaxian on the importance of developing unobtrusive JavaScript. Worthwhile browsing… Oreilly has a fairly good shortcut on unobtrusive ajax that’s worth checking out as well.
I had some fun recently when I attempted an upgrade to the latest MySQL after installing Leopard. Here are some links that I found helpful in case anyone out there happens to stumble upon my site while enduring the same: Starting MySQL. Fix for MySQL. Both postings link to myriad other postings in case you’re [...]