User: winescout

from a ror perspective

On: PHP 5.2.2 and 4.4.7 Released

You mean people still write websites in PHP? Gesh, my Ruby pals are going to get a kick out of that

Re:I remember Friendster's flaw

On: Friendster's Rise and Fall

Ahh yes, but the vandels are out there - http://powerset.com/

Re:Upgrading

On: Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1

Well, you're almost done. If you are upgradding from 1.0, you'll want to read this -

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Count+Limi t+Associations+Plugin

Service for content producers

On: Google Developing Database Service

I see this as a service for content producers. Say for example that you are a non-profit research facility. Maintaining a website is a pain, and an expense. Google is providing an easy to use service that will allow you to publish your research data.

Or, what about help forums. How many times have you needed an answer when configuring somethin in Linux? What do you do? Go to google, type in the error, and 5 seconds later your on a help forum where someone has explained the solution. Now use Google Base to cut out the step of going to 3 websites that are just Spam.

This really is just an evolution of the arms race between Google and site spammers, with the added benefit of making content producers lives easier.

Of course, only the content procuers who don't have an advertising model will benefit from this.

I for one ....

On: Firefox Exploit Adds Fuel to Browser Security Feud

I and my computer for one, welcome our new remote exploiting, script kiddie overloards.

Those utah boys are going to make a killing

On: Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq

Looks like those Utah boys are going to make a killing selling there air conditioners in Iraq. Conspiracy?