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About a month ago I started diving into the world of Rails again . As I said in that blog post, Rails has always had much thought leadership and has always been a hip way to develop. Now 2 of the main new technologies that where discussed in that blog post have made it into the .NET world in a very polished...
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Let the fun begin Ok diving into Rails after not having touched it in a while feels a bit painful to be honest. Getting Started Using the guide on: http://rubyonrails.org/download I got off to a good start. Picking the latest version of Ruby + the rails 3.1 RC. Then the first problem seems to be going...
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Introduction I’m finally granting myself some time again to write about the interesting things that I run across in development. Its always interesting to see what the Rails world is doing to see what's hip in development, because the Rails folks are hipsters and innovators. This however isn’t always...
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This week there are 3 pieces of candy which are all sort of related, they are all talking about ruby Candy nr 1: Faster ruby Ruby for windows has long been available as a 1 click installer, this one click installer is based on Visual C++ version 6 which came out in 1998. There is an effort going on to...
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Ruby on rails is one of those technologies that just took of where a lot of other different technologies didn't do anything. I would like to share my insights about why this technology blossomed where a lot of others failed. First of all they did a lot of things right, most things are marketing related...
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Introduction What is MVC MVC stands for: Model (database) Controller (business logic) View (what you see + view logic) It is used to separate the logic from a web application and other types of applications into these 3 logical parts. There are a lot of people who think this makes development easier...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...