Inchoate Curmudgeon

Arun Gupta was at the tutorial also, and his blog entry has additional information, including some code snippets.

jruby, railsconf2007, ror

i thought I was doing well in blogging on Your First Day with JRuby on Rails within 45 minutes of the session completion, but no! Joel Duffin beat me by half an hour!

jruby, railsconf2007

I attended the JRuby tutorial. Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, the lead developers of JRuby who joined Sun about 8 months ago, gave the talk. The combination talk and demonstration focused on how easy and “real” development and deployment of JRuby based Rails applications is. An important part of the discussion was around the JRuby value […]

I’m at the RailConf in Portland, hoping to learn a lot about Rails. I’m off to a tutorial on JRuby! I’m going to a BOF for Flexible Rails hosted by the author Peter Armstrong.

rails, railsconf2007

For some time my Acrobat 7 Professional installation on my Mac has thrown an error on initial access to the Organizer (File menu option Organizer) “Could not initialize Organizer database”. I recently upgraded to Acrobat 8, and the problem persisted. After at least a week of extended dialog with Adobe support that was going nowhere, I […]

Perhaps I’ve been a little to curmudgeonly lately; my blog is reported by the Great Firewall Of China as blocked. Very curious. I ran across this site in a blog entry by Alec Muffett. His bloggish persona non grata status at least makes some sense, having blogged on a loophole in Google’s controversial censorship mechanisms in […]

A friend and colleague of mine, Art Raymond, taught me several years ago that the revolution of Web media could be best understood in terms of the three major value propositions that mainline media covet:

The Channel The Content The Editing

The channel is the actual medium that is the vehicle for the message: the newspaper, the magazine, the […]

Flexible Rails is an excellent “beta book” on the use of Adobe Flex with Ruby on Rails, but I think the beta book handle is a bit of a misnomer, particularly for this book. The book itself is the “tip of the iceberg” for a collection of resources managed by the author, Peter Armstrong, […]