My ex-girlfriend and I... lived together for about four years and had a Netflix account. When we separated, I continued to use it and it's become mine basically. However, together... we rated so many movies on Netflix. Now, if she were to start a new Netflix account, she'd have to restart this process.
I could see this happening on many sites where preferences and your history are tracked. I wonder if sites should allow you to clone/fork this sort of thing... or maybe sites should be providing a way for users to group their preferences and ungroup when necessary.
After the Netflix, I'm keeping all my stuff separate because nothing lasts forever.;-)
RequestTracker is free... so we get what we pay for.
However, it's has some of the worst Interaction Design that I've seen in a long time. Our team has been using it for our support system for just over a year and we're counting the days until we are able to replace it with something else. There are too many steps to do simple tasks within it and it's too developer-centric. It looks like an application designed by developers, meaning there was little thought put into the design. It has lots of "features" though... many of which that we don't use... just like most applications that are designed by developers.;-)
Adobe isn't going to force everyone to watch ads. They are doing exactly what a lot of their customers are asking for.
People who are creating their own video casts (merlin mann for example) may want to monetize their videocasts by adding sponsorship to their videos. This allows people to redistribute their content much easier and still guarantee that their sponsors are being seen. Currently, the average video blogger/caster doesn't have a lot of resources for managing this themselves. (adding video to the beginning of the video file)
Think about it. A video blogger will be able to change their sponsors without reprocessing their videos. Seems reasonable to me.
This is an area of software development that I drool over. I'm so fascinated with all the variables that go into the success of a project. Beyond the technical aspects, the human to human problems that arise seem to be the biggest problem in software development. What's the problem?
Oddly enough, I posted the following this article on my blog yesterday.
I think something can be done about it. I believe it starts by seriously acknowledging that there is a problem.
My Rails development firm has been working with Rails for over a year now and as of early last summer... we're exclusively Rails-focused. We've been working with features in 1.1 for several months now and are glad to see that these features are now part of the 1.1 release.
Ruby on Rails on PostgreSQL = Enterprise Rails!:-)
Coming from a Perl, Python, and PHP background... making the transition up a letter in the language world has made my life much easier. Rails is hot right now and there is a huge shortage of quality Rails developers. RailsConf 2006 sold out in just a few days and Canada on Rails is coming up in just over a month. For RailsConf, my team is taking the train from Portland, Oregon to Chicago, Illinois... via the The Argon Express. My whole development and consulting career went 150% Ruby on Rails in less than a year!
Rails isn't the evil code generation monster that you make it appear to be. It is merely a set of best practices that you either like... or you don't. Our Rails development team really likes them and we're willing to give up a few of our personal preferences for the sanity of working with a framework that allows for easier collaboration.
The Ruby on Rails framework just sets the tone for you. You can use the scaffolding generator... but we don't in any of our client products. We might use it to just get a quick CRUD view of the existing data we're looking to work with.
It's nothing more than a well thoughtout set of best practices... and people love it.
The *other* guys are still hung up on their own ideas of what is best for their code... but in the end... we just want to get stuff done. Rails makes that a bit quicker to do so.
Ruby+Rails+PostgreSQL+Lighttpd = Enterprie Ruby on Rails!;-)
Ever since you and joined forces, my PostgreSQL hosting and consulting business has gone up. On top of that, several existing customers have begun asking how they can migrate their applications from MySQL to PostgreSQL. While I am happy to hear that you finally got yourself some stored procedures and other advanced features... it saddens me that you're doing business with a company (SCO) that thinks that one of your business models is unconstitutional. You are tainted now. However, I really just wanted to say thanks for the extra work that have you provided me. It's no secret that being a professional PostgreSQL consultant is going to be a highly valuable skill in the coming few years...there is already a shortage. Thanks for sending people to the world's most advanced open source database server!
Former MySQL fan,
Me
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My book will cover some fun legacy stuff.. a whole section is dedicated to this with Ruby on Rails.:-)
Curt Hibbs (author of that Rails article) has just released Instant Rails.
Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.
Quite a few people have dismissed Ruby on Rails because they think that it enforces a set of rules about how to structure your database. I am currently writing, Programming Rails for O'Reilly and have posted numerous articles on my blog on the topic of Rails and Legacy database systems. Rails can be molded to fit your existing infrastructure with very little effort. It's all I have been using for new projects since last spring... and that was when I started learning Ruby as well.
If Bill Gates and I do a press release about our new partnership, that's an entirely different thing.
Exactly. This isn't just about buying a license. MySQL is outright promoting that they are working together with SCO, who is a soon-to-be bankrupt and known enemy of the open source community.
MySQL issues have come up in the past (see PHP5 licensing issue for example)... their motivations for the future seem to be forgetting who made them who they are.
Every Linux user who has installed a distribution has probably install MySQL. It's been supported by the open source community and they would not be where they are without that community.
If you have a group of dedicated friends, do you join a pact with their enemy? It only seems to validate that MySQL approves of the business practices of SCO. Is this true? Where is the ethics? Selling SCO a license is one thing, joining a pact is another.
This concerns me.
My question for the PR department at MySQL... does MySQL support the ethical business practices of SCO?
Above all things... this is one of my favorite features of PostgreSQL. MySQL has nothing of the sort.
Procedural Languages... yum.
I recently showed on my blog how I could interact with an instance of DRb from inside of PostgreSQL. How cool is that?
MySQL has nothing like this. I'd also guess that a majority of the applications that use MySQL could use SQLite instead and as soon as that becomes more popular, we'll see less MySQL usage.
I think that many people are not seeing why this is upsetting to so many other people. This is not about MySQL providing sources that run on SCO. PostgreSQL, MySQL, and many open source products already to this. The issue is that SCO, has historically over the past few years been beating the anti-open source drum, making claims, working their way towards bankruptcy, etc. Their business ethics are awful.
MySQL, who has been a big hero in the open source community has join a pact with a company that practices... bad business practices.
What does this say about the business ethics of MySQL?
This pact looks to be more than just getting your product to run on another UNIX-based platform. This is about what your intentions are... and in a way, only aiding the enemy that is known as SCO.
Novell is working on destroying them so that we never have to deal with them again... and MySQL joins a pact?
Please help me... explain this logic?
MySQL would not exist in its capacity without the Linux community... and it feels like they are forgetting who their friends are.
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There's a lot that Rails does right, but I'm not yet convinced it's the only reasonable optional for medium-sized apps. Of course, this gets a bit muddle because we're really comparing a framework to a language.
Okay, let's compare the object-oriented power of Ruby to the nice oo addons that PHP5 has given us.
Ruby > PHP5 (in terms of OO)
Therefore, it is likely that any framework which fully utilizes that power (Rails) is a more powerful object-oriented framework. This is just a generalization... but I agree. Let's stop comparing PHP to Rails.
Ruby vs PHP. Aside from a large userbase and a bunch of legacy php applications, what does PHP have over Ruby?
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My ex-girlfriend and I... lived together for about four years and had a Netflix account. When we separated, I continued to use it and it's become mine basically. However, together... we rated so many movies on Netflix. Now, if she were to start a new Netflix account, she'd have to restart this process. I could see this happening on many sites where preferences and your history are tracked. I wonder if sites should allow you to clone/fork this sort of thing... or maybe sites should be providing a way for users to group their preferences and ungroup when necessary. After the Netflix, I'm keeping all my stuff separate because nothing lasts forever. ;-)
RequestTracker is free... so we get what we pay for.
;-)
However, it's has some of the worst Interaction Design that I've seen in a long time. Our team has been using it for our support system for just over a year and we're counting the days until we are able to replace it with something else. There are too many steps to do simple tasks within it and it's too developer-centric. It looks like an application designed by developers, meaning there was little thought put into the design. It has lots of "features" though... many of which that we don't use... just like most applications that are designed by developers.
Adobe isn't going to force everyone to watch ads. They are doing exactly what a lot of their customers are asking for. People who are creating their own video casts (merlin mann for example) may want to monetize their videocasts by adding sponsorship to their videos. This allows people to redistribute their content much easier and still guarantee that their sponsors are being seen. Currently, the average video blogger/caster doesn't have a lot of resources for managing this themselves. (adding video to the beginning of the video file) Think about it. A video blogger will be able to change their sponsors without reprocessing their videos. Seems reasonable to me.
This is an area of software development that I drool over. I'm so fascinated with all the variables that go into the success of a project. Beyond the technical aspects, the human to human problems that arise seem to be the biggest problem in software development. What's the problem? Oddly enough, I posted the following this article on my blog yesterday. I think something can be done about it. I believe it starts by seriously acknowledging that there is a problem.
You might consider migrating away from Oracle to PostgreSQL. ;-) ...or give us a call and see if we can assist your Oracle driver development.
My Rails development firm has been working with Rails for over a year now and as of early last summer... we're exclusively Rails-focused. We've been working with features in 1.1 for several months now and are glad to see that these features are now part of the 1.1 release.
:-)
Ruby on Rails on PostgreSQL = Enterprise Rails!
Coming from a Perl, Python, and PHP background... making the transition up a letter in the language world has made my life much easier. Rails is hot right now and there is a huge shortage of quality Rails developers. RailsConf 2006 sold out in just a few days and Canada on Rails is coming up in just over a month. For RailsConf, my team is taking the train from Portland, Oregon to Chicago, Illinois... via the The Argon Express. My whole development and consulting career went 150% Ruby on Rails in less than a year!
rails++
In my book... you touch script/console before you ever touch script/generate. ;-)
http://www.programmingrails.com/
Rails isn't the evil code generation monster that you make it appear to be. It is merely a set of best practices that you either like... or you don't. Our Rails development team really likes them and we're willing to give up a few of our personal preferences for the sanity of working with a framework that allows for easier collaboration.
;-)
The Ruby on Rails framework just sets the tone for you. You can use the scaffolding generator... but we don't in any of our client products. We might use it to just get a quick CRUD view of the existing data we're looking to work with.
It's nothing more than a well thoughtout set of best practices... and people love it.
The *other* guys are still hung up on their own ideas of what is best for their code... but in the end... we just want to get stuff done. Rails makes that a bit quicker to do so.
Ruby+Rails+PostgreSQL+Lighttpd = Enterprie Ruby on Rails!
RRPL4LIFE.
Dear MySQL,
Ever since you and joined forces, my PostgreSQL hosting and consulting business has gone up. On top of that, several existing customers have begun asking how they can migrate their applications from MySQL to PostgreSQL. While I am happy to hear that you finally got yourself some stored procedures and other advanced features... it saddens me that you're doing business with a company (SCO) that thinks that one of your business models is unconstitutional. You are tainted now. However, I really just wanted to say thanks for the extra work that have you provided me. It's no secret that being a professional PostgreSQL consultant is going to be a highly valuable skill in the coming few years...there is already a shortage. Thanks for sending people to the world's most advanced open source database server!
Former MySQL fan,
Me
My book will cover some fun legacy stuff.. a whole section is dedicated to this with Ruby on Rails. :-)
Programming Rails
This has been fixed now. There are new features in edge rails for passing custom sequence names to your objects. :-)
PostgreSQL works with Ruby on Rails!
:-)
If it didn't, I wouldn't be so in love with it
Ruby on Rails is now a supported platform at ThoughtWorks! (home of Martin Fowler)
Curt Hibbs (author of that Rails article) has just released Instant Rails.
Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.
http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/
Quite a few people have dismissed Ruby on Rails because they think that it enforces a set of rules about how to structure your database. I am currently writing, Programming Rails for O'Reilly and have posted numerous articles on my blog on the topic of Rails and Legacy database systems. Rails can be molded to fit your existing infrastructure with very little effort. It's all I have been using for new projects since last spring... and that was when I started learning Ruby as well.
PostgreSQL + Ruby + Rails = the next (lamp)
PRR, RPR, RRP... we need a cool acronym
Why work for fourty hours a week for somebody else when you can work 70 for yourself.
It's hard work... but it can be rewarding.
Exactly. This isn't just about buying a license. MySQL is outright promoting that they are working together with SCO, who is a soon-to-be bankrupt and known enemy of the open source community.
MySQL issues have come up in the past (see PHP5 licensing issue for example)... their motivations for the future seem to be forgetting who made them who they are.
Every Linux user who has installed a distribution has probably install MySQL. It's been supported by the open source community and they would not be where they are without that community.
If you have a group of dedicated friends, do you join a pact with their enemy? It only seems to validate that MySQL approves of the business practices of SCO. Is this true? Where is the ethics? Selling SCO a license is one thing, joining a pact is another.
This concerns me.
My question for the PR department at MySQL... does MySQL support the ethical business practices of SCO?
That is how I see this announcement.
See, with pl/Ruby, I can access Rubygems from within PostgreSQL!
CREATE FUNCTION redcloth(text) RETURNS text AS '
require ''rubygems''
require ''redcloth''
content = args[0]
rc = RedCloth.new(content)
return rc.to_html
' LANGUAGE 'plruby';
and I can use it like so:
rb=# SELECT redcloth('*strong text* and _emphasized text_');
Above all things... this is one of my favorite features of PostgreSQL. MySQL has nothing of the sort. Procedural Languages... yum. I recently showed on my blog how I could interact with an instance of DRb from inside of PostgreSQL. How cool is that? MySQL has nothing like this. I'd also guess that a majority of the applications that use MySQL could use SQLite instead and as soon as that becomes more popular, we'll see less MySQL usage.
I think that many people are not seeing why this is upsetting to so many other people. This is not about MySQL providing sources that run on SCO. PostgreSQL, MySQL, and many open source products already to this. The issue is that SCO, has historically over the past few years been beating the anti-open source drum, making claims, working their way towards bankruptcy, etc. Their business ethics are awful.
MySQL, who has been a big hero in the open source community has join a pact with a company that practices... bad business practices.
What does this say about the business ethics of MySQL?
This pact looks to be more than just getting your product to run on another UNIX-based platform. This is about what your intentions are... and in a way, only aiding the enemy that is known as SCO.
Novell is working on destroying them so that we never have to deal with them again... and MySQL joins a pact?
Please help me... explain this logic?
MySQL would not exist in its capacity without the Linux community... and it feels like they are forgetting who their friends are.
You can find tons of quality hosting companies. http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hos ting
Why switch to Linux when you can find tons of stores selling computers with Windows already installed?!
Wow, you really haven't played with it much. Have you?
The solution?
m s-0.8.11.tgz
# assuming Ruby is installed..
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubyge
tar zxvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
cd rubygems-0.8.11
sudo ruby1.8 setup.rb
sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo gem install rails
cd ~
rails goodbyephp5
cd goodbyephp5
script/server &
lynx http://localhost:3000/
# woo!
Okay, let's compare the object-oriented power of Ruby to the nice oo addons that PHP5 has given us.
Ruby > PHP5 (in terms of OO)
Therefore, it is likely that any framework which fully utilizes that power (Rails) is a more powerful object-oriented framework. This is just a generalization... but I agree. Let's stop comparing PHP to Rails.
Ruby vs PHP. Aside from a large userbase and a bunch of legacy php applications, what does PHP have over Ruby?