Refuctoring. Job Secrurity Index = 1 / Maintainability. (PDF, NSFCS)
ActiveRecord goes Geo. Simplifying database access is a Good Thing. But ActiveRecord goes beyond Plain Old SQL, and lets you build a lot of smarts into the library, to make coding all that easier. What other database layer will let you do this?
Store.find(:all, :origin=>'100 Spear st, San Francisco, CA', Â :conditions=>'distance<10')
That’s one line of code to geo-code the address and query by proximity. All courtesy of Andre Lewis’s GeoKit plugin. If you’re doing anything with maps, check it out. It doesn’t get any easier than this. And I heard the book is coming out soon.
Why go? 365 million years of evolution/closures in Java debate, explained.
Web 2.0 prank sites. For when you have nothing better to do.
The Rails idiom. Peter Harkins, when reviewing assert_select: “I’ve mentioned that this is what coding in Rails continually feels like: sometimes it just feels off even though it works and is nicer than other languages, and soon I realize a beautiful Right Way to do it.”
Amazingly it feels better, simpler and tighter in every release, without the inevitable bloat that fates other frameworks. Maybe bloat is avoidable afterall.
Chipping the web – “Y “ — Chip’s Quips