Giorgio Sironi writes about (among other things)his first experience with Rails over at Web Builder Zone: class Post < ActiveRecord::Baseend Oh thanks, now I’m enlightened. No fields, no scope, no getters or setters. What is going on here? Where is the business logic? It’s a common enough reaction from Rails newcomers, but it completely misses […]
I gave a presentation recently at Web414 that promoted the idea that frameworks were the future of web development. The presentation didn’t go well (It started its slide downhill when I realized too late there would be no way to show my slides. I switched to a more interactive, discussion-oriented presentation, which of course I […]
How far can you reach when someone’s behavior becomes offensive? Is guilt by association ever permissable? Robert Vining, newly minted chief spokesman and admin for All Together As A Whole is finding that out, right now. He writes about it in this blog post. I’ve been there, Robert. You made the right choice. In a […]
Lee Brimelow made this wonderful post ridiculing the iPad’s lack of flash. Only one problem with it. It’s a lie. And that’s a problem. Apparently, he made those wonderful claims of his without ever once checking the reality of them. Most of those sites that supposedly don’t show anything, actually do. As this set of […]
I’ve heard from some more developers on the subject of testing, who claim they aren’t allowed to do unit testing because there isn’t time. I’m not blaming the developers here, but their management for being just plain stupid. An elementary analysis of the question proves just how wrongheaded they are. The first question to ask […]
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