the ruby on rails team delivers the 3.0 beta

by erik on February 5, 2010

ruby 3.0 beta

The ruby on rails crew have been able to bang out enough code to release the 3.0 beta.

Quotes David Hansson:

Rails 3 is focused on bridging the core Rails technology with the new ideas brought in from the Merb team, which joined the Ruby on Rails development effort. Merb is a model-view-controller (MVC) web framework written in Ruby. And Rails 3 delivers the best features of Merb and Rails into a single new release.

more on some features of Rails 3.0..

Also, among what Hansson calls the “headliner features” are:

· Brand new router with an emphasis on RESTful declarations

· New Action Mailer API modeled after Action Controller (now without the agonizing pain of sending multipart messages!)

· New Active Record chainable query language built on top of relational algebra

· Unobtrusive JavaScript helpers with drivers for Prototype, jQuery, and more coming (end of inline JS)

· Explicit dependency management with Bundler

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the five sharepoint blogs on my list

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1. http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/ – Sharepoint MVP Ishai Sagi has been working with Sharepoint since [...]

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google’s v8 javascript project picking up steam

January 22, 2010

Google’s V8 javascript project has been kicking around for a while in the tech labs / buzz arena, but it’s coming into its own.
While it’s over a year old, this clip by Lars Bak does a good job of setting the scene on V8 which is currently(?) only Google Chrome friendly / enabled.

For something [...]

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designing a basic fading error message with JQuery and CSS

January 21, 2010

How many of you are developing and/or supporting web applications which provide feedback to the user? If you are working with an older web application in your environment, then there’s a high probability that some pages still use the alert() function in javascript to display errors and/or information to the user.
Alert() might be fine for [...]

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5 ways to cripple your productivity

January 20, 2010

Over the years, I’ve been trying to accomplish the same basic goal as a lot of other people: maximize productivity. For a goal that’s so basic and primal in the office environment, it’s surprising that it is such a difficult goal to actually accomplish.
1. Working in Cubicles – Whoever arose from the pits of office [...]

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the “trojan horse” 2.0 strategy

January 15, 2010

Ahh yes. Depending on our age, when we hear the phrase “Trojan Horse”, one of two images are recalled to our minds.
For some, the classic “original” Trojan Horse scenerio in which the Greek forces surrounding the City of Troy built a gigantic wooden horse statue as a symbol to “honor” Troy for surviving despite [...]

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