DemoCamp9 Aftermath

Five demos at DemoCamp last night...

DictaBrain

James' DictaBrain demo had a great "elevator pitch" quality to it: Ever call your answering machine to leave yourself a message, just to get your thoughts out of your head? DictaBrain improves …

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Too funny!

Maybe you have to have been working with Ruby for awhile, maybe not, but I have to share:

My new blob

I am at the moment setting up my Unbuntu conputer for Rails - the Rubby language W.W.W. framewok for making W.W.W. sites. Rubby is a great conputer …

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Of Blogs, Rails and APIs

This blog (the one you’re reading now) is a custom Ruby on Rails application, built because I either have an insatiable desire to learn new things or a chronic case of Not Invented Here syndrome – take your pick. I recently added support …

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The Hacker Inferiority Complex

The Perl community seems to be angsting itself up about the state of things.

Six years ago Perl was the undisputed king of scripting languages. Python, Ruby and a cadre of others were riding its coattails. We were promised a new version that would right …

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I am, apparently, a 'Web Hermit'

New terminology, I guess:

So in this world where fortunes are made and lost by trading in nothing more substantial than data; where you can choose your friends and acquaintances not just from the people you meet at work or down the pub, but from all over …

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Meet the new blog

I've been wanting to re-do the blog in Rails, since well before the recent re-design. It was one of those "Oh, I want feature X and Y, and Liz really wants to do Z, but... Rails..."

So, rather than add feature X or Y or whatever to the existing PHP site …

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Greg Blake

Robin Laws writes movingly about an untimely death, and the weirdly close associations of our age:

Gamer, fan, computer programmer and blogger Greg Blake died earlier this week from complications to follow-up surgery from his recent lung transplant. Greg's …

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David Crow: Ruby on Rails Workshop in Toronto - June 27, 2006

This piqued my interest:

Did you miss Canada on Rails? Are you going to miss RailsConf 2006? Well this is your opportunity to catch a world class Rails Workshop in Toronto. Jeff Hardy and Cloves Carneiro who recently formed Visionist are hosting a Ruby …

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Why I Like Rails

Spurred by this discussion and a desire to see more of this kind of thing, what follows is an attempt to explain why I like using RubyOnRails (Rails) more than PHP or Perl.

A Brief History of Me (as a Web Developer)

I started writing HTML circa 1996, first …

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Rant: Judge not, lest thee be judged

I suppose we all have our scars. I was a TA for a persuasive speaking course in grad school, which means that I graded papers and speeches for three semesters. The net result being that I am particularly sensitive to bad arguments.

So, here's my new …

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