Taking Rails offline. Let me get this straight. It installs a setup of Rails in it’s own “VM”, which would then run my application, like a normal desktop application, except the same Web app code base which I use online, but since I can run it offline, will synchronize the data as necessary. I can see some million and one possibilities here.
Cool by association. ebXML — remember ebXML? — has been banished from the XML/WS news feeds for a while now. You only mention it in good company, if you want to show your age. Otherwise, you keep to the acceptable topics of WS, REST and our new faith-based religion. But all is not lost, and ebXML is getting its cool back. In the form of a Ruby implementation.
Good start, but still some catching up to do. At least in comparison to SAP, which brought the cool back in this mashup with Rails and Wii.
Cool by association, Part 2. JSON support in Axis2:
{"xsl:root":{"@xmlns":{"xsl":"http://foo.com"},"data":{"$":"my json string"}}}
/< (.*)>/{$1}/ does not transform complex into simple. When we bitch and moan about angle brackets, we use that term metaphorically. I starting to think that Axis2, the lightweight alternative that just works, is suffering from J2EE envy. (Thanks, Antoine)
Dare the impossible. I’m told it simply cannot be done:
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ? That sounds preposterous to me.
And make it possible. Andrés Taylor’s 10 lessons every software developer should know:
No matter how cool your algorithms are, no matter how brilliant your database schema is, no matter how fabulous your whatever is, if it doesn’t scratch the clients’ itch, it’s not worth anything.
Antoine