Archive for April, 2008
Flickr launches video capabilities
Users can now upload 90 second video clips along with their photos: Video on Flickr? « Flickr Blog
Flock browser a real contender
It's been about a year since I last looked at Flock, the "Social Web Browser". In that time it's matured into a very stable and useful application, perfect if you are into social networking and blogging. Some of the sites that it integrates with are: Facebook Flickr Twitter Youtube Flock
The Truth According to Wikipedia
Thought-provoking documentary by Dutch film maker Ijsbrand van Veelen, featuring The Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen. The Cult of the Amateur on Amazon.co.uk Andrew Keen's blog
Java fighting a losing battle
Interesting article from Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans on how the Java world is leveraging dynamic languages such as Ruby and PHP in order to remain relevant in the web application world. The obvious question is, though, whether using JRuby has enough advantages over using Ruby or PHP in a plain Linux environment without a JVM. [...]
links for 2008-04-07
The Top 9½ Books In a Hacker's Bookshelf | GrokCode Classic computer texts, yummy. (tags: book code development framework hack programming)
I've used Rails. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Interesting article on how Rails features can be more of a hindrance than a help in many situations. Compared here with Django, which can be cleaner and more lightweight. Some of the bits and pieces that come bundled with Rails are just plain wrong, the Javascript helpers being one example. The abuse of HTTP by [...]
Creator of Ruby on Rails pays backhanded compliment to PHP
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails, praises PHP for being adequate for "small chores". Wow, what a compliment! Perhaps someone should suggest to Dave that Rails is okay too, as long as you don't care about performance. The immediacy of PHP
links for 2008-04-02
Locomotive Easy Rails install for OS X 10.4 Tiger (tags: coding development framework mac opensource osx programming rails ruby scripting software web2.0 tools) Marc Liyanage - Blog - Developer - Two AppleScripts for Perl Developers using BBEdit Useful scripts to help debugging Perl code with BBEdit or TextWrangler (tags: perl bbedit testing debugging textwrangler editing [...]