An article by Steve Yegge who I actually didn't know until he was included in a question session with some of the big names in the software industry a while back. A very good writer, anyway the article: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html It makes me want to work at google...
Watch this and be blown away as well: http://www.wekeroad.com/actionpackintro.html A DAL which creates classes for Stored procedures, tables etc. And all that is needed to set it up is a * in a file. Home of this DAL layer: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=actionpack
2 Articles about Django from 2 different people: Django: first impressions - overview with links Django: first impressions - technical overview The first one covers a lot of ground through it's links and is a pretty good starting point for Django. The main upside of Django is that it gives you a very...
I'm hearing some people think: Ok cool that Ruby is happening and all that but we are a DotNet Community site. Very true, but there are quite a few links to the DotNet world going on and developing at quite a nice speed. The bridges available now are: http://rubydotnet.sourceforge.net/ ( - 2003 ) http...
Ruby's star is rising fast at the moment. It's star is rising fast it even has the thought leadership at the moment according to Don Box. IDE support is rising for it as well in the form of free editors and paid editors alike. RadRails is going strong in the Eclipse camp, this isn't really a Ruby perse...
Microsoft says that, from now on, ActiveX control activation will require that, "when a web page uses the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements to load an ActiveX control, the control's user interface is blocked until the user activates it. If a page uses these elements to load multiple controls, each...
One of the big things in stopping people from adapting Ruby on Rails is it's lack of a good editor. Now it seems that this is a thing of the past. Some people have made it possible to make Dreamweaver mx 2004 into a good Ruby on Rails editor. The howto for rhtml files . The howto for intellisence on...
Interesting development going on currently surrounding MySql every ones favorite sql 92 / ACID incompliant database. MySql AB has recently transfered the license of MySql from LPGL to PGL. For those not so well informed in what the difference is: "using the Library GPL permits use of the library...
I saw a good definition of Web 2.0 today through Curt Hibbs blog, from O'Reilly: Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that...