Archives for Feb 2005
autolinking google
“And consider what heat would be generated if what Google is doing to us were done to Google. Can I put up a Web app that scrapes Google and replaces their ads with mine, or adds mine to theirs?”—Dave Winer
I wonder how Google feels about the Google Preview extension for firefox?
Rails 0.10.0
Rails 0.10.0 is out. Notable new features include Routing (get nice looking, custom URLs without mod_rewrite), Action Web Services (check out the MetaWeblog example) with WSDL support, and Components.
Too bad it broke my rails app, though I was expecting this. It is possible to freeze your rails version though.
google smart tags
What’s the big deal about the Google Toolbar’s AutoLink feature?
As far as I can see, it doesn’t transform documents unless you tell it to
- and you have to tell it to for each individual document. If you’re so scared about being lead off to sites owned or affiliated with Google, how about just not clicking the button? -Philip Pearson
No RSS? No downloads? No interaction? Fake content? You're fired!
Robert Scoble gets very passionate about RSS and marketing:
Sorry, if you do a marketing site and you don’t have an RSS feed today you should be fired.
I can’t even fathom having a site without an RSS feed. Or a blog. But, there’s this whole world of folks that still don’t know of these things. I don’t think I know of more than five people that actually uses an aggregator or reads blogs.
Maybe that says more about where I live than anything…
minimal ruby blogging engine
Tobi decided to release his minimal blogging engine: typo.
It’s obviously not very feature-rich, but the source definitely has some useful little nuggets.
captain america vs. cobra commander
Does anyone else think that this new Captain America villain (or he may be an old one, I’m not up on my Captain America trivia) looks like a Cobra Commander wearing that weird hat from the Cosby Kids?
Ed Brubaker is the first writer to get me to actually read Captain America. The previous relaunch didn’t do much for me (the beautiful art by John Cassaday couldn’t save it). Then, there’s Cap-Wolf.
my first ruby on rails app...
... is still in progress. Here’s the latest report from running rake stats:
Code LOC: 996 Test LOC: 1191 Code to Test Ratio: 1:1.2
I picked a doozy of a project, a comic book database. I’m not ready to post a link to the dev version until I have a decent layout up. If any shit-hot designer wants to help in that aspect, let me know.
joel on software
I just finished reading Joel’s dead tree version of Joel on Software. Even though I’ve read most, if not all, of the articles, they were definitely worth another read.
Plus, it’s in a format that you can read in the bathroom that doesn’t affect your fertility.
(Scott Mitchell wrote a much better review)
i got my hash pipe
Eric Lippert has a great three part series (1, 2, 3) on why you should implement a salted hash user authentication system in your apps.
The only issue is there’s no way to retrieve the password if the user needs it. It’s not a show stopper if you provide a method to reset the user’s password and require them to change it upon logging back in.
