June 22, 2006
New Rails app: MOG.com
You may have seen MOG mentioned on BoingBoing or elsewhere earlier this week. It’s the new social networking site that lets music lovers connect based on what they’re into, keep...
June 17, 2006
Happy Rails Day!
RailsDay 2006 is in progress! Teams around the world will be working furiously all day to produce the best application possible in 24 hours. This year, you can watch the...
June 14, 2006
Tips on how to improve application efficiency
Rails performance specialist Stefan Kaes, who writes extensively about optimizing Rails over at Rails Express has a lengthy article at the new InfoQ site called A Look at Common Performance...
June 13, 2006
Remember CRC Cards?
In 1988, Ward Cunningham (yes, that Ward Cunningham) came up with an idea to use index cards as a tool for object-oriented design. I was working for Kent Beck at...
June 13, 2006
New from O'Reilly: RJS Templates for Rails
Cody Fauser has just announced the release of his PDF-only book RJS Templates for Rails. From almost the day we checked rjs into the repository, Cody was quickly singling himself...
June 11, 2006
Rails System Back on Track
Hopefully you didn’t notice, but I’ve been very busy this weekend. I finally took the plunge and got all the Rails applications that run on this machine up to snuff....
June 11, 2006
Patience, Grasshopper
We all know that for some time this blog has needed some love. Well at last it can be told: There’s been a super-secret project underway for a while to...
June 7, 2006
What's New in Edge Rails
Ryan Daigle has recently started chronicling new features in Edge Rails. He’s doing a nice job of summarizing the new features, so if you don’t feel like keeping an eye...
June 7, 2006
Browse your Subversion Repositories
Bounty Source provides the Open Source community with free hosting and tools including a task manager, a CMS, and a Subversion Code Repository. They’ve been gracious enough to release the...
June 5, 2006
Shopify is open for business
We’re lagging the official announcement by a fair margin, but that won’t hold back our official word of congratulations for Jaded Pixel as they’ve launched Shopify. It’s instant-on stores that...