Life is random. Introducing, the iPhone Shuffle. (Brasten Sager)
Object/anything mapping. A lot of people argue that ActiveRecord is not a serious/ideal/complete ORM layer. Maybe. But ActiveRecord did manage, in a very short time, to accomplish something many before it promised, but never quite delivered: to abstract data access. ActiveRecord can talk to SalesForce, LDAP, Amazon, and now even Revver. Yes, the video sharing site.
Not to mention the wide variety of plugins (partial list) — want to add tagging? rating? versioning? Just drop a plugin and go.
Waste not, want not.
The great comeback. I have it on authority from two sources that the keyboard is making a comeback. Long live the mouse typewriter!
Mirror, mirror on the wall … “Two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs and one quest for transcendent software.” Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code goes on sale next week, book reading, Jan 24.