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September 02, 2006
DabbleDB and Seaside
DabbleDB is a web based database that offers data refactoring and normalization in a way that you don't really have to know anything about refactoring or normalization. DabbleDB was authored by Avi Bryant, in Avi Bryant's celebrated webframework: Seaside.
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 05:02 PM Permalink
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August 25, 2006
Ruby and python list comprehension
If you've never heard about lambda ... move on, this article isn't for you.
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 12:23 AM Permalink
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August 22, 2006
Beyond old school AJAX
In day-to-day AJAX programming I rarely see AJAX in its original "old school" incarnation. Strictly speaking, AJAX stands for Asynchronous Java and XML - but in today's practice the XML part is definitely getting more rare. In this article I describe a few AJAX patterns I've come across: Original AJAX, AJAX with JSON, AJAX with HTML, and AJAX with dynamic javascript.
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 07:17 PM Permalink
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August 02, 2006
Screencast worth watching
If you're involved with a Rails project, you owe it to yourself to watch this screencast. Relevance LLC understands dynamic scaffolding and they've got an open source framework built on Rails to prove it.
Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 10:57 PM Permalink
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What is web 2.0?
500 random people define Web 2.0
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 04:24 PM Permalink
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July 27, 2006
Testdriving “Streamlined” for Rails
This tutorial will assist you in personally test-driving the much anticipated Streamlined framework released earlier today.
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 12:17 AM Permalink
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July 22, 2006
CRUDdy analysis
Rails developer Scott Raymond was inspired by all the CRUD/REST talk and took the plung to re-factor his IconBuffet.com and then write-up his experience. His analysis has been celebrated as "The missing content from DHH's keynote".
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 12:01 PM Permalink
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July 18, 2006
Social scientist's ideas spread in Rails culture
Barry Schwartz is the author of "The Paradox of Choice" and a psychology professor at Swarthmore College. He recently gave a speech at Google and his ideas are spreading around the Rails circles. I believe his philosophy provides a lot of insight into some design principles used by 37 Signals in their web products - and of course the Rails framework itself.
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 11:35 PM Permalink
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July 13, 2006
Rails creator has data modeling opinion
I just finished watching David Heinemeier Hansson's (DHH) speech and reviewing his slides from Rails Conf. 2006. This speech isn't just entertaining, its essential study material. In this article I've collected all my study aids: DHH's video, his slides, and my humble take away message.
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Posted by Jeffrey Hicks at 07:45 PM Permalink
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May 03, 2006
Microsoft? No thanks.
I cannot help but wonder why ANYONE, especially a developer, would stay loyal to Microsoft!
I've written about Inline::Java recently. This week, I had the DIS-pleasure of recompiling it on a Windows platform. The last time I compiled it, I got lucky and the whole process only took me about a day. The actual compiling of the module's parts that need to use C only takes about 20 seconds - it is getting everything that you need to compile on Windows that takes the other several hours. When I finally figured out what I needed, and gave up trying to use freely available compilers, I was able to snag a copy of Visual C++ 6.x...
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Posted by Brent Michalski at 03:43 PM Permalink
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