Category: Links

Rails 2.0 released. Includes the 1.6.0.1 release of Prototype (which will see an official release very soon).

Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn’t). Exactly! I tire of JS framework wars for the same reason I tire of language wars: you should use whatever makes you happy. You’re not trying to get your framework of choice to “win”; there’s nothing to be won. Evangelism is a good thing; you ought to share your happiness with others. Zealotry is not.

The Marble of Doom. Record how long the marble/beachball/pinwheel impedes your progress, then see how much money that time would be worth if it were billable. I should do this for the time I’ve spent working around IE6.

Data breach at Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance. If you’ve ever applied to a college in Louisiana, lived in Louisiana while applying for colleges elsewhere, or used the words “Louisiana” and “college” in the same sentence, then you might be the lucky potential victim of identity theft! You can find out if your information was possibly compromised. Please excuse me; I have credit reporting agencies to contact.

An exhibition basketball game at the University of Washington on Saturday demonstrated how the game would be different if the rims were eleven feet tall instead of the usual ten. Sounds like it opens up inside play, which I’m all for.

Hixie: The CSS working group is irrelevant. I agree with everything he says — someone needs to light a fire under the CSSWG’s ass, but I don’t know who has the necessary time, inclination, and expertise.

Prototype 1.5.1 released! If you’re still running 1.5.0, you shouldn’t be. The $$ optimization alone is worth the upgrade.

Mark Pilgrim deconstructs the recent comments DHH made about Twitter. Yes, DHH is arrogant, but he’s also correct. (Know anyone like that, Mark?)

Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84. Cat’s Cradle was the first book (the first book book) I opened and started reading of my own volition. I was 14. The person I am, right now, sprang from those pages.

30 Rock gets renewed for the 2007-08 television season. I’m incredibly relieved that for once a show I love dearly is not cut down in its prime.