January 2007
8 posts
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Cruising on Rails
So I’ve continued my quest for Rails mastery. Problem has been, that all books have assumed that you have decent programming skills (which I don’t) before picking up that particular book. Since it seems a bit awkward to learn say PHP first, to attack Ruby/Rails second, and since there are no decent general “learn to program” books… I basically had to go at it with...
Hear ye
Got this over att ExperienceCurve, it sort of makes the same point as I did below, although better =)
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Old Steve, meet new Steve
It seems mandatory to comment on the iPhone so here we go: So it’s a smartphone. Woopeedoo. Everything but the GUI and input is pretty basic stuff; it was the same thing with the Ipod though so it’ll be interesting to see if incremental innovations on the same trajectory will be enough for smartphones to tip. It looks sweet and I can’t wait to test it, but let’s try to stay...
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I'm on rails (kinda...)
So my Rails-attack i coming along quite smoothly. Had to prepare for a buyout-presentation yesterday evening and today but I managed to get thru ch 1, 2 and 3 of Poignants ruby-guide, before the Ruby-hacking learning curve got a bit too steep. I switched to “A little Ruby”, which was ok but a bit dry. Seems to be worth the effort though since now I actually understand what alot of...
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Steven's keynote
Update! Apples stock is already up by 5 percent, and he still has another 30 mins or so to go… my bad =) So I’m trying to focus on my Ruby whilst following Steven Jobs’ keynote from Macworld SF. In textformat, but who cares. So he’s showcasing the iPhone which looks absolutely sick. A must have. Integrated with Google maps, find closest Starbucks, call the Starbucks etc....
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Ruby is a non-programmers best friend
So I’ve decided to take up programming. For real. It’s a bit tragic that I haven’t done a real effort earlier in my life, but on the flip side then I would probably be stuck with a perl-hammer, thinking that every possible software-project is looking like a perl-shaped nail… if you know what I mean. But now we have Rails. This magic Ruby-based framework that can create Web...
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Evolving memes
This just in: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/tags/ Apparantly some guy up at MS has used an Open source tool (!) to create this rather fascinating tagcloud based upon 90 memos from Microsoft dating from the eighties and forth. I found it quite fun to drag the slider and notice how the emphasis shifted as the time went by. One can clearly see that in the eighties there was lots of...
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Me, me, me (finally, some respect)
According to Advertising Age, I’m their pick for agency of the year. (gimme a second to breath and enjoy the rush) Well… okay… maybe not so much me as consumers in general… ahhh the lack of imagination. Maybe their journalist-friends up at Time mag slipped the word that their person of the year-award issue (which went to, you guessed it, me/us) sold alot? I’m not very...