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It’s a bold new year for Ruby. The recent release of Ruby 1.9 (though it’s still not a production ready release), the inclusion of Ruby as an officially bundled item in OS X 10.5 (though 10.5 still needs a few dot-versions to reach production release itself), Rails 2.0, a whole plethora of new Ruby books…The Ruby year is going to be a good one. It may end up being a bit frustrating when the push to migrate to 1.9 actually does come, but shouldn’t be too bad.On the book side, there is a very interesting Ruby Design Patterns book as well as a few others, such as the Practical Ruby Projects book, and the FXRuby book.Now, we just need a RubyCocoa book, a Ruby Qt, a Ruby Tk, and a WxRuby book.We also need a Ruby game development book. I don’t have any interest in Lua, and Python is the Ruby for people who like the way Python does things.Myself, I’m working on a Cocoa wrapper app for RubyGems called Gem Commander. I’ve already got a proof of concept working app, but it’s slow going dealing with Cocoa and Objective-C after doing Ruby so much. Here is the logo for Gem Commander…  You see, Ruby is just so expressive and feels modern. Objective-C and Cocoa (and AppleScript, while we’re at it) all definitely show their age after coming from Ruby. The method signatures in Objective-C are conceptually very cool, and the whole thing beats the hell out of C++ or Visual Basic, but the naming of methods and the way things work is sometimes just not graceful at all. (especially, as I said, after doing things in Ruby)Even RubyCocoa is just a dog in comparison to straight Ruby. It does present the opportunity to mix good Ruby expressiveness in to things, but at the cost of still needing to navigate through Apple’s ridiculous documentation. Apple really really really could learn a lot about documentation in the modern world from the Rails crowd. (minus the people Zed Shaw bitches about… ).On the subject of Apple, AppleScript itself is really a dog these days and is overlooked or under-attended by developers. Apple really just needs to overhaul the whole damn thing in favor of serious Python, Perl and Ruby scriptability out-of-the-box. Then, you would see a real explosion of cool stuff. 

So, what’s the next big thing gonna be? TAG SPAM. That’s right Continue reading →

I started working with some people recently who use BaseCamp. If you don’t know, BaseCamp is one of the pretty impressive things to come from the same people who created Rails. In fact, BaseCamp was one of the reasons for creating Rails to begin with.

Thus far, it’s pretty impressive. It’s responsive and feature-rich. It’s not terribly intuitive at first, but what project tracking/management application is intuitive? Name one. Can’t, can you? Regardless, the interface is pretty good. Similar in some regards to what you see in the WordPress dashboard, but a bit more thought-out.

I’m liking it, but it definitely takes a little getting used to.

Now, if only Google would come this close to good UI for Analytics (what a mess)!!

Here are a couple of interesting wordpress themes that resemble
unix/linux command line
and
Comodore 64
of course these are done in PHP but I’d like to see these done in Ruby or Rails and perhaps one that looks like irb. Oh wait, _why has already half done that…

WordPress has been my friend now for almost a year. I’d known about it for a lot longer, but hadn’t gotten into using it. Of all the bloggin solutions out there, WordPress is probably the overall best. It’s focused on what web sites really mainly are: words. So if you’re looking for a photoblog, maybe this isn’t quite what you want. WP can do that, but there are plugins to make it more gracefully handle photoblogging. That’s fine with me, since most photblogs are really photglobs. Heck, most blogs are really globs when you stop and think about it. Continue reading →

Oh, woe be to us all even the home of WordPress is using SNAP. I just hope they don’t roll it in to WP as a “feature” that can’t be turned off.

Many folks have read about the trick to try and reset font-size in CSS to equal a fixed point or pixel size. Continue reading →

So, you want to have a blog? Or perhaps a simple web site. Well, friends, there is good news and bad news.

First, the good news is, anyone can learn to do this stuff.

The bad news? You pretty much have to learn to do stuff with some code if you want to have something good.

Step one, Continue reading →