April 23, 2007
at 5:56 am
· Filed under Chronology
Have you tried BlogPulse charts and graphs to track and analyze what’s behind the buzzwords?
Here is an example showing the keywords python, ruby, and wordpress (time-line is the past 6 months). Looks like the WordPress spike is beginning to fade, and I wonder what that means?
Here is another BlogPulse trend chart showing what everyone was talking about last week. Keywords/Phrases : Virginia Tech, Cho, gun control.
Now that we are on this topic, let me say that my deepest sympathy goes out to all the families affected by this horrific tragedy (mass murder, suicide); my prayers for peace and love continue unto God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, and I recommend that everyone read and meditate on Psalm 4 and Psalm 23 this week.
Tags: blogs, charting, graphing, measuring, metrics, Python, RSS, Ruby, WordPress
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April 22, 2007
at 6:41 pm
· Filed under Ontology, Webdesignology
Have you checked out the new Yahoo Pipes!
It is a like an “RSS feeds on steroids”. Pipes is an interactive feed agregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
Tags: RSS, Web 2.0
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April 22, 2007
at 6:17 pm
· Filed under Webdesignology
CMS Wire is reporting live from RubyConf and covers a few talks delivered at RubyConf. Sounds like the conference is buzzing with excitement and here a few items I gleaned…. Checkout Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheets, great little documentation things that help you get your work done… kind of like MAN pages, but a little more dynamic.
The PeepCode ScreenCasts are also highly recommended… “PeepCode Screencasts are a high-intensity way to learn Ruby on Rails website development”.
Wait a minute!!! That RubyConf is not the REAL RailsConf — which will happen May 17 to 20, 2007 — check it out on the RailsConf website.
Tags: RoR, Ruby
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April 19, 2007
at 5:08 am
· Filed under Bibliography, Technology
Huw Collingbourne has published a nice Recommended Ruby Reading List — it has 6 “essential books” about Ruby and Ruby on Rails, 3 “other books” about the Ruby Language and Ruby on Rails, and provides links to 4 FREE books (PDFs) about programming ruby (that you can download). for a total of 13 books about Ruby. I downloaded a bunch of the PDF books, but the only other one I own is Programming Ruby, The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (second edition) which a lot of folks seem to agree is truly the essential book about Ruby.
Huw recommends The Ruby Way, by Hal Fulton, as the “second great tome” (after pick-axe) which is published by Addison Wesley, and is also now in it’s second edition. A free example chapter about “Working with Strings” is provided.
Tags: book review, Ruby
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April 17, 2007
at 5:36 am
· Filed under Webdesignology
Here are 19 Rails Tricks Most Ruby Coders Did Not Know — until the article was published… I liked the pointer about using BackgroundRB to run long running tasks (in the background).
Tags: coding, hints, How To, programming, rails, Ruby, ruby on rails, scripting, tips, tricks
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April 17, 2007
at 5:10 am
· Filed under Methodology, Webstandardology
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April 10, 2007
at 4:27 am
· Filed under Methodology, Webdesignology
One of the quickest ways to get started with Ruby on Rails is with Instant Rails. Instant RoR version 1.7 is now available (see v1.7 release notes).
The first package I tried was v1.3, and I was impressed with how easy it was to download, unzip, and get Ruby, PHP, mySQL, and Apache up and running. In addition to the great new Ruby tools, you get PHP, mySQL, and phpMyAdmin in the install package, because that is the quickest way to configure an OpenSource management tool for your mySQL databases.
Includes Mongrel 1.0.1 support.
Very cool. Highly recommended.
Tags: Apache, installer, mySQL, open-source, package, php, RoR, Ruby, web server
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