January 13, 2005
But what does "proven" really mean?
Michael J. discusses the obligation of the consultant to pick proven technology for custom jobs, but comes to the conclusion that the question is out of sync. It should focus...
January 12, 2005
Rails runs through XP Cincinnati
Jim Weirich is a member of the Extreme Programming Cincinnati user group that up until their last meeting was largely a Java gathering. Then something happened as Jim started to...
January 12, 2005
Rails go web services with XML-RPC prototype
Lars Hoss wanted an XML-RPC interface to his Rails-based weblog, so he hacked up a quick prototype: Pretty neat! We’re currently investigating a number of different schemes for how to...
January 10, 2005
RedHanded out-evangelizes the evangelizer
I thought I was on with my game of spotting every Rails praise around the net and reposting it here in the praise category, but apparently I need to be...
January 9, 2005
Rails on Lighttpd with FastCGI
Although Apache is the default choice of web server for Rails, it is by now means tied to it. Any web server that’s capable of doing a wee bit of...
January 8, 2005
Have a codefest and collect cash from RubyCentral
Chad Fowler just reminded the Ruby community that free money is up for grabs if you have a cool idea for a codefest. There’s a total of $1,500 in the...
January 7, 2005
S5 Presents competes with SoapBX
This is funny. With SoapBX barely out the gates, Lucas Carlson has already launched a competitor with S5 Presents that does themes and is open source. He even claims to...
January 7, 2005
3,000 people are doing 10,804 things...
43things.com has just been in the air for a week and already do they have 3,000 people are doing 10,804 things! That’s an incredible achievement in such a short period...
January 7, 2005
Jamis Buck is working on Basecamp
Along with the announcement of the latest major upgrade to Basecamp, I’ve unveiled who the mysterious programmer we’ve brought on at 37signals is. So I thought I’d also wish him...
January 6, 2005
Nicholas presents the Directors
Nicholas Seckar is busy working away on the Directors — the next-generation URL mapping scheme for Rails — yet still took the time to explain how its going to work....