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> RAILS makes it easy to develop in but it's achilles heel it's
> still it's scalability; and it has a problem scaling due
> to the way it's architectured.

Nah. We use it on thenewsroom.com; it's yet another Rails success story.

It's still more than we had before, on the platform of the future: http://thenewsroom.com/details/396043

> All CBS has to do to make money off this is have advertising in a corner of the screen

Right on. thenewsroom is one of those content distribution sites, and the beauty of it is that you can do things like create a custom feed of Coast Guard videos and you'll get the latest content both from CBS and from other content providers. The videos are of pretty high quality and the ads aren't too long. Ditto for text content, too, except it's a static ad and thus doesn't take up any time.

Disclaimer: I'm working on the Rails app that's powering thenewsroom.

I don't know, looks like it's getting used in the 2008 Olympics (via thenewsroom).

....when he suggests "Treat everything he does as a favor. ". Actually, that's not a bad life strategy - when the waitress refills your coffee right away, treat it as if she didn't really have to - because, really, she didn't! She could have just ignored your empty cup, or waited a few minutes, or whatever.

Same with a sysadmin. When he adds a rewrite rule (done!) 20 seconds after you ask for it, act appreciative and say thanks, even though that's his job. Because he could have put it off until tomorrow and probably would have reasonable excuses for doing so. (Incidentally, I hosed up this rewrite rule the first time by leaving off the trailing $. Doh!)

> I don't see this as being any different from WebStart,
> which everyone loves to hate because it is so clunky.

JWS is pretty sweet for internal apps, though. I wrote a Swing client for a J2EE app for an internal group and folks were quite happy with the easy updates. They'd suggest a change and half an hour later I'd come buy their office, ask them to restart the app, and the new version would get downloaded and Bob's your uncle. Pretty sweet.

The JavaFX code looks pretty nice, and here's the original press release (got it from thenewsroom).

...including a mention of him receiving a "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the Game Developer's Choice Awards are on thenewsroom.