I’m sure you’ve all heard the Rails 3 announcement. When I first found out my initial reaction was “fuck me“. But shortly after I was filled with a feeling of dread and general unease. And I didn’t know why ….
Firstly, a bit of history.
I first tried programming on a Commodore [...]

The irrepresible Dominic Hodgson is organising his very own conference in March 2009.
It’s all about SEO, marketing and those dirty things us coders try not to get involved with Of course, I will be there.
So why not give Think Visibility a go? You may just learn something.

There seems to be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the upcoming VAT change. Especially as it is only a 13 month change and the rate will revert to 17.5% in 2010.
However, it ought to be really simple (although I realise that this may be a bit late for [...]

What the fuck is this?
Merb is launched and DHH suddenly has a load of “Rails Myths” posts up on his blog. Like this sly little dig:

it shows the great power of being an full-stack framework

Wycats responds with a slightly less sly dig:

For the moment, these differences are the reason that [...]

The second episode of my new joint-venture, Techietubbies, performed with the irrepressible Dominic Hodgson, is now available. It’s semi-regular half hour podcast where we discuss startups and technology news whilst giggling like children - probably not very professional but that’s the way we like it!

I spent this weekend in the Lake District in the wet north-west of England. A beautiful part of the world, but one lacking in 3G connectivity. Not great for browsing (although Mobile Twitter and email were fine) but fantastic for battery life.
On Sunday morning, I awoke to find an email from [...]

 
Sometimes you have a moment where you know that you’re on the right path.  
I was hunting through an archive of work done for Brightbox and found this message trail.  I had just tracked down a bug and posted a small screenshot of the fix.  
John’s response let me know that this would be a [...]

I have just read this excellent description likening “the PC” from the “Get a Mac” ads to Warner Brothers’ greatest ever creation, Wile E Coyote [1]. Reading through the Wile E rules, it fits perfectly.
Despite being probably the greatest cartoon character ever created, it has to be said that Wile E does [...]

Google’s Chrome browser is making big waves on the Internet. “Watch out Microsoft, Google is coming to get you” they are saying.
But they are wrong.
Mozilla should be worried. Even Apple should be worried. But Microsoft should not.
You see, if Chrome is successful it will take search revenue (from the little online search [...]

Well not quite.
Instead, it’s a (biased) look at how using Rails for your next project can give you a better return on investment.
Basically, your major costs are your team and your servers (and you definitely get what you pay for when it comes to your development team).
Everything else tends [...]