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The iPhone… Its not even out yet and everyone is drooling over it
Monday, June 11th, 2007
And if they aren’t, they should be! Ajax has long been the missing link between phones as a mobile computing platform and phones as a simple messaging device. the fact is that there is a vastly larger poll of people willing to write useful web apps than useful java apps. I would also argue that [...]
Openfound (cont)
Monday, February 5th, 2007
If there’s one thing that the OpenFount guys have shown me is that they’re serious about the Infinidisk product. Mr. Donahue gave me a quick call this evening (seems my e-mail server and his e-mail server aren’t talking properly, so while I get his communications) he has not received mine (probably explaining the lack of [...]
Hpricot 0.5.0
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
The HPricot ruby gem has been updated to 0.5.0. Now if you’ve ever had to parse XML (Including HTML) without HPricot, you’ll be hooked in the first 5 minutes. There’s no parser, that I’ve found, that’s less like beating your head against a bowl of cold oatmeal than HPricot is! It’s almost pleasant! Check new [...]
The (theoretical) web services database
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
I’ve been kind of floating around this topic for a while… Well databases in general… And I see a lot of people who have rather high standards (which is not a bad thing.) I imagine the complication of offering a service like this comes from the fact that database people have very stringent standards. Things [...]
SVN + RoR = Passive Version Controlled Goodness!
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
While working with both rails and subversion (which I like using to keep my projects under version control) I was irritated by having to go through and add or delete a bunch of files when using the code generation tools. Especially when first putting the project together, there always seemed to be 6 new files [...]