http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com standing strong against the tides of indiscretion Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Regarding Zed Shaw's "Rails Is A Ghetto" Rant A glimpse at our SVN log. Please note that this is a private Rails project's SVN log - this NOT from the repo of any open source project. This is supposed to be funny... Ha Ha? A coworker of mine coincidentally ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2008/01/09/ghetto-zeds-may-be-on-to-something/ I've been slowly considering the use of RubyAMF in a couple of new Rails projects. By "slowly" I mean that there have been some more pressing projects that have prevented me from really "diving in" and experimenting with RubyAMF; only leaving enough time to read some docs and follow ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2008/01/08/the-state-of-the-rubyamf-state-of-the-union/ Happy Halloween - Rails Style! http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/10/30/por-pumpkin-on-rails/ I'm not against acronyms, but recently I stumbled upon the Java Community Process (JCP) Wikipedia article, while looking up what exactly JSR (Java Specification Request) stands for. The JCP article lists all (or at least some - I don't know) of the JSRs that exist; including their number and technology... RTSJ, ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/09/28/beware-of-java-acronymphos/ This is in response to Michael Urban's posting, "And The Fastest Growing Web Framework Is..." (which is also kind of a commentary/response to a Rick Hightower blog posting) which awards the honors to JSF based on job posting trends from February 3, 2005 to June 27, 2007. I won't argue that ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/09/06/and-the-least-productive-web-framework-is/ FlexFM is an open source project created by the folks at Soliant Consulting as an alternative to Flex4Filemaker. This is great news! It's not that I wish Flex4Filemaker to die, but it wasn't setup for success from the start. Flex4Filemaker was created by my lonesome self as ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/08/22/flexfm/ I thought this was worth sharing... Pay $14.99 at O'Reilly or get it FREE at Ajaxian as PDF You choose. http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/08/03/adobe-integrated-runtime-air-for-javascript-developers-pocket-guide/ ...and aloha Google (kind of). "Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine" and I'm making the switch. Using Mahalo is easy, but switching from Google (is the link even necessary?) is not. It's not that Mahalo's search results are sub-par... they're actually better... when there is ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/07/10/aloha-mahalocom/ It's time for software developers to quit doing what we're told and start thinking. We're not robots. We're intelligent individuals who can consider context and produce results beyond the handicapped communication of a formal requirement. It's the software developer's responsibility to ask questions, listen to the answers, and do ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/05/16/the-spirit-of-the-requirement/ I know... I'm very late on all of this. Greasemonkey isn't new and neither is using Google Translate as a proxy/tunnel. Heck, there's probably already a Greasemonkey script that combines the two! Nonetheless, Greasemonkey is new to me and I decided to write this for fun even ... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2007/05/08/google-proxy-my-first-greasemonkey-user-script/