Mandarin Soda » Javascript

24 Ways Advent 2007

Matt Carlson — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:33:09 +0000

24 Ways to impress your friends, assuming they’re web design dorks of one form or another. And I mean that in a good way.

Happy Holidays!.

Google Chart API

Matt Carlson — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:33:25 +0000

nice.

update: Doesn’t take the Rails folks long.

Practical Web Site Optimization

Matt Carlson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:27:13 +0000

For some reason, I tend to forget that the folks at Sitepoint blog with some frequency alongside their publishing business. I suppose its because, like most of their book titles, I’m not terribly intrigued by their somewhat basic or generic content, probably because its not even really aimed at folks like me. Anyway, preamble aside, they recently posted a nice tutorial on web site optimization based on the rules laid out by the Yahoo performance team earlier this year. The article focuses on PHP and Apache, which seems sorta old, but its useful stuff all the same.

A Ruby Alternative to Rails

Matt Carlson — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:27:35 +0000

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 both of those should probably be mentioned as well.

Throwing in a decent posting comparing the frameworks as well, although there may be better ones out there:
Ruby Web Frameworks