In a blog comment, Nate Todd lays out an extensive description of why he switched from a PHP based framework (CakePHP) to Ruby on Rails. The points he makes reflect a lot of what I hear from people coming to rails, and some I’ve made myself – albeit not as eloquently as those you’ll find [...]
I went to another bang-up meeting of the Portland Ruby Users Group last night. Russ Jones gave a great presentation on Design Patterns with Ruby. I don’t know if he’s planning on publishing the notes from the talk, but it’s worth keeping an eye on his blog to see if he does. The talk itself [...]
So I’m cruising along in Ruby one day, when all at once I realize I’ve stopped writing. I’m stuck. I needed to compare two arrays, and trim one so that any records in it would be removed if they existed in the other one. In PHP, one way to do this would be to loop [...]
Sometimes I find myself in need of more than just the block of Lorem Ipsum text that magically appears from typing “lorem” and hitting tab in Textmate. Sure, I could use a handy widget, but flipping back and forth from the dashboard gets tiresome after a few iterations.
