If Rails Is A Ghetto, Please, Let Me Be Ghetto- January 24, 2008 A few weeks back a longtime Rails developer by the name of Zed Shaw wrote a post in which he declared Rails is a ghetto. If you haven't already read it I would suggest that you probably not bother. It's likely not going to be very interesting to you unless; a) you've been involved in Rails since almost it's very beginning and thus you probably already read it or b) you're planning to become a consultant in Rails. See, a lot of it is kind of like the guy telling you how much the party sucked...http://www.johnmunsch.com/2008/01/if_rails_is_a_ghetto_please_le.html Google Picasa Coming To The Mac- January 18, 2008 So, it looks like Google is going to bring out Picasa for the Mac later this year. Yay. I'm glad. Now address some of the serious shortcomings in the software. Stuff that I blogged about back in June of 2006 like real handling of tags, multiple levels of rating image quality (i.e. not just "STAR"), better searching, custom cropping ratios (16x9 anyone), plugins, better movie handling, etc. Please. Otherwise I'll end up stuck with iPhoto which has some good features and lots of UI stuff that...http://www.johnmunsch.com/2008/01/google_picasa_coming_to_the_ma.html MacHeist II- January 13, 2008 I mentioned a while back that I had bought a Mac. For the first few months of using the Mac I've contented myself with either freeware items, software development tools (which for Ruby on Rails and Java are free), and a small sprinkling of purchased software (e.g. Unison for Usenet newsreading). But last year and again this year Mac software companies have come together to do a group sale of their software for a single purchase price at MacHeist. It increases their profile, it donates...http://www.johnmunsch.com/2008/01/macheist_ii.html Is RubyStack A Ruby on Rails Solution For Macs, Windows, and Linux- January 9, 2008 The other day I was lamenting the demise of Locomotive for the easy installation of Ruby on Rails for someone interested in starting a project with it. Windows still has InstantRails but your only solution for easy install on OS X was buying and installing the latest version of the operating system (Leopard). But here comes another solution. BitNami has a project called RubyStack and it is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X running on either PowerPC or Intel chips. According to their...http://www.johnmunsch.com/2008/01/is_rubystack_a_ruby_on_rails_s.html Salon Was Right, Obama's Victory Speech Was A Hell Of A Speech- January 4, 2008http://www.johnmunsch.com/2008/01/salon_was_right_obamas_victory.html I Love YUI- January 3, 2008 Yahoo! has made a lot of cool resources available for web developers. They have libraries to login using Yahoo! credentials, perform searches, etc. But one of my favorite, one that I think has no equal even from the mighty Google is their Yahoo! User Interface library (YUI). It's a great collection of JavaScript pieces which have been beautifully tailored to be useful to total JavaScript know nothings like me and experts as well. They then marry those with a set of excellent CSS files to handle.http://www.johnmunsch.com/2008/01/i_love_yui.html |