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Rich over at Basement.org has a great post on why it’s important to take a step back from all the buzzwords and think objectively about Web2.0. In it he looks at some traffic stats from a few Web2.0 players and wonders how many of the hundreds out there are even getting noticed (much less turning [...]

Usability is expectationMy boxers need a redesign. Either that or I need to find a different brand of undergarments.Today, for the seventeenth time this year I showed up to work with my underwear on backward. I discovered this 45 seconds before an important meeting, when I rushed to the bathroom to try a preemptive #1.Do [...]

In this video posted to the SVN blog you can see a chat screen where the guys mention the Backpack Calendar:Now, I’m pretty sure this is a deliberate leak (“I’m pumped about BP calendar” doesn’t sound like something you’d say unless you knew people would be watching), but in any case, I’m pumped about it [...]

Tonight’s RUM meeting was a great one, with better attendance than last month’s meeting. Tom gave an overview of the file_column plugin for Ruby on Rails (and also has a meeting summary on his blog). It has just about everything you need to handle file/image uploads built-in, including resizing, thumbnails and cropping (if you [...]

Check out DHH’s post describing all the changes. With so many fixes and cool new features, it’s kind of amazing this is just a minor release!The difficult (and great!) thing about Rails is that every time a new release comes out I have the urge to completely rewrite all of my applications. Just browsing through [...]

Sorry for the interlude… I just got back from a nice vacation in Akumal, Mexico (I recommend it if you’re looking to go somewhere near Cancun but not in Cancun). Anyway, here are some of the sites that caught my eye this month:

event:Selectors – Justin’s blog is required reading for anyone doing Rails, javascript, [...]

Joel Spolsky has a good (but long) essay  discussing how to price what you sell.  If it’s software, your marginal costs are small (or nil) and you  theoretically could maximize profits by hyper-segmenting your market and charging everyone a different fee (according to what they can pay).  But should you actually do this? Turns out [...]

Ever since I heard about Newsvine, I’ve been itching to try it. Now it’s live and I’m excited to try it out. I’ll let you know what I find out….via Veerle (who, by the way, just re-launched her excellent site as well)

Found an article called Real Lessons for Rails Deployment today via Peter’s blog, (although I think I may have come across it earlier while searching for help getting my Rails apps under control). In my experience, the hardest thing about developing an application in Rails is actually launching it on your server.

There are a ton [...]

Ok, not really…I wish. But the latest thing I added to Feedmarker did take me literally thirty minutes to implement (from idea in my head to live on the production site). This is crazy fast, and in my opinion only possible thanks to Ruby on Rails.Anyway, from now on, whenever you bookmark a url that [...]