Enjoy the Holidays with a new 1.9 Dev Release. Apparently Mongrel and Rails are fairly close to being compatible…. Nice overview here. Update. PragDave has some rather pragmatic advice for approaching the 1.9 development release. And yes, the last time I looked at my first year college compositions, I noticed more than a few tautologies. [...]
The future is parallel. No pretending otherwise when NYTimes is writing about it. Erlang, here I come…that is, if I ever get around to finishing this. I suppose I could also just listen to Paul Graham and relax… Except in special kinds of applications, parallelism won’t pervade the programs that are written in a hundred [...]
So, you have your nifty new Rails 2.0 site up and running on a cluster of Mongrels proxied by Nginx and decide that you want to add a sub-domain to your slice to host a blog describing what your site does, since its “Web 2.0″ name doesn’t make a lick of sense. First you set [...]
Happened yesterday. Let’s play some Philip Glass Sesame Street music in celebration. List of features here. So, what’s on the roadmap for 3.0?
New article from Sitepoint discussing OpenID and various microformats to make your social networking application more integration and data flow friendly. Nice to see more discussion of “open” standards in this space…
Just saw a posting about the Boilerplate framework, which made me wonder who out there uses CSS frameworks like Blueprint or Yahoo? And if you do use them, why? Does this type of work really require libraries or is it more of a standards encouragement sorta thing?
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, [...]
Nice post here about creating seed data for Rails applications. I used migrations for a while in a previous application and found it to be quite annoying when trying to keep things in synch with numerous migrations over time.