The hits just keep on coming. First Sun, now Apple:
The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up a tremendous head of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in 2006. Simply put, Ruby on Rails is an open source tool that gives you the advantage of rapidly creating great web applications backed by SQL databases to keep up with the speed of the web. And with the release of Rails 1.0 kicking off the new year, there’s never been a better time to climb aboard.
Check out their article, Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development with Mac OS X, on their developer site.
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted here… Sorry about that, I’ve been programming away on a rails application. I have to say that I love this framework. I am actually having fun programming again. Seems like I’m not the only one that’s caught the train:
From comments section of this site:
Roman Strolb, Sun Microsystems:
Btw, I also like Ruby on Rails… it’s a nice web framework. Yes, I’m a Sun employee and like Ruby on Rails
It pretty cool that a Sun guy would admit this. Now if they would just admit that JSF is crap and move in the Rails direction, the Java world would be a much better place. 
Caught this story over on /. yesterday… People are getting into a tisy over Blizzard not allowing people to activly recruit and advertise Gay and Lesbian guilds in the World of Warcraft game. Furthermore Blizzard refuses to allow same sex marriages between players…
While the lines are drawn between “Damn Right!” and “That’s so unfair…”, I think there are some deepers issues here. First of all, sex is not a part of the game, nor does gender play a role in the how the character develops. Furthermore, marriages are not supported for anyone. Male gnomes cannot marry female elves, etc… So the big question for me is… WHY THE HELL DID ANY OF THIS EVER COME UP IN THE FIRST PLACE???
The scary answer is that people are actually projecting their real lives into these games… This is becoming their reality…
The not so scary answer is that these people are simply looking for attention or some other source of validation for their view points. My hunch is that this is the more common case.
Bottom line is, people pay $15 / m to rent space on Blizzard’s servers. If they don’t like the name you choose for a character they can (and will) ban you from playing. It’s their property. If you don’t like it, don’t play their game. It’s not a democracy, and the constitution or declaration of rights do not apply. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO ANYTHING EXCEPT ACCESS TO THEIR SERVERS when you pay your monthly fee.
It’s a weird world we live in… Not even games can be “fun” anymore. Some fool with an axe to grind must always show up and make an issue out of something that isn’t even possible in an online world… And before anyone posts it, I don’t want to hear about meaningful online relationships… Or “But my online wife and I connected over a mouse and key board…” Give me a break… If you are reading this and are angry, you need to turn off your computer and go outside…
It’s true… REALLY!
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A good friend of mine is getting his brains beaten out in a thread over on the server side about the Eclipse vs. Netbeans debate. It seems as though Sun Engineers are hell bent on claiming that Netbeans is a worthy project. Honestly, I’ve looked at it, its cute, but wake up people… Eclipse won that prize fight long ago. Sun is sending in a washed up fighter against the champ of the world… The people have spoken. Quit wasting time with NetBean and give me a reason to stop using Ruby on Rails!! Actully don’t… Rails is too much fun…
It’s funny how the creators of Java have completely missed the boat in the IDE and Web markets, are being completely awful to loyal Java users and then wonder why this thing called Ruby on Rails is eating their lunch…
