Introduction Serving files from a website is easy just link to them and you're done. Serving files from your website in the most optimal way isn't that easy, first you have to think about things like making sure that the caching is right and if the files are being used a lot on other sites. If...
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...
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...
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...
A while back a colleague of mine used to send out emails every once in a while called candy of the week. This little piece of candy usually was a pretty picture or website which lightened up everyone's day. I was thinking about moving this concept to my blog and to go with a developer theme. To make...
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...
The videos: http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/ The Speakers: Sam Altman Founder, Loopt Marc Andreessen Founder, Ning, Opsware, Netscape; Creator of Mosaic Michael Arrington Editor, TechCrunch Jeff Bezos Founder, Amazon.com Paul Buchheit Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail Paul Graham Partner,...
few hours ago I wrote a blog post about google's chrome browser, now it has been released and I've spent a couple of hours toying around with it a bit. You can read about the technical specs of the new browser here . First impressions The good It's slick, the user interface is bare bones...
Google's browser will be launched tomorrow but there is already a lot known about the browser. - It will use webkit which is already in use by: Safari, Konquerer, Google's Android, Nokia browser and some others. - It will use a custom javascript engine named: v8 which is a VM based engine. -...
Highlights of new functionality included - JScript debugger . - Webslices (sort of widget extractor for websites) - Activities (extend your right click with custom menus) - HTML View (think firebug / Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar ) Other important changes - Connections per host increased this was...