March 12, 2005
\'It\'s like your programming back in Assembly\'
Shanti A. Braford is being forced back into PHP after getting jiggy with Ruby on Rails. He’s not liking it one bit: Programming a web application in PHP feels a...
March 11, 2005
'I set out to prove those Rails folks wrong'
Steven R. Baker was “…depressed by web development”, but he also pretty sure that “…sophisticated applications wouldn’t be any easier to build with Rails”. So what did he do? He...
March 11, 2005
'Broke down, saw the light, whatever you want to call it'
Rails is certainly going through rapid improvement. Marcel Molina used to joke on #rubyonrails that he was so busy refactoring his application to take advantage of all the new goodies...
March 11, 2005
ruby-lang.org is getting redesigned!
I’m exceedingly happy to see the rapid progress of the team appointed to redesign ruby-lang.org. The old website served us well, but this redesign is going to make it even...
March 11, 2005
Rolling on your on Ajax
While the extraction process is happening with pulling the Ajax abstractions that work out of Honey for inclusion in Rails, you might want to take a look at Dave Goodlad’s...
March 11, 2005
The story behind Rails at O'Reilly
Jason Fried from 37signals talks about the origins of Rails with Marc Hedlund from O’Reilly: Ruby on Rails is the open source web application framework we extracted from Basecamp. When...
March 10, 2005
Rails developer with Java chops wanted
Jason Wong from ionami in San Francisco wants to hire a Rails developer with Java chops to help him through the transition from Java to Ruby on Rails: ionami is...
March 10, 2005
Swiss InfoWeek looking for Rails writers
Editor Andreas Ahlenstorf would like to print an article on Rails in the Swiss IT magazine InfoWeek: I’m looking for somebody who would like to write an article about Ruby...
March 10, 2005
Collective Prose: Picture a coffee shop..
Vinu Murugesan just launched a Collective Prose. A pretty interesting application for experimenting with collaborative writing: Collective Prose is a place “where you can share your thoughts, learn new things,...
March 9, 2005
Let's Ajax, baby!
Just a heads-up. Honey, the next application from 37signals, is using a lot of Ajax techniques to get a spiffy and responsive interface. I’m already well underway in the process...