Weblog of Fernando Reig Matthies

I’ve just bought “RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails” as I needed some more documentation on a Web project I’m working on with my friends over at Stanque.

After flipping through some pages I came across this handy chart which graphically explains the contents of any Rails project tree in a very simple way.

Speaking about Books, I also came across this one due to be published in December 2007: “The Accessible Web, Creating Content for Everyone”. Seems a good book about accessibility on the Web.

In any case, the iPhone is Apple’s best shot at killing Flash, and Apple appears happy to be using it as such. The company just recently removed all remains of Flash from its corporate website, implementing everything that had been Flash-based using standards-based Ajax techniques instead.

Apple recently convinced Google to start offering its YouTube videos in an H.264 format that can be accessed by both the iPhone and Apple TV. The obvious reason for moving to H.264 video rather than using Flash is that Flash requires decoding the video on a general purpose CPU using the Flash/On2 software codec.

Excluding Flash is a huge slap in the face of Adobe, which is pushing Flash as the basis of its AIR and Flex web application strategies. Adobe likes to advertise that nearly every PC has a Flash plugin installed. Suddenly, nearly every mobile that has access to the real Internet won’t have Flash, making it far less attractive across the board

Via Roughly Drafted

Still some peripherals and computers missing, but a very interesting collection.

From those depicted (and some missing) there I have been a proud owner of:

• Apple // europlus
• Apple ///
• Apple Macintosh SE 1/20
• Apple Macintosh LC II
• Apple Newton MP2000 (upgraded to MP2100 and still with me)
• Apple PowerBook G4 17”
• Apple PowerBook G4 15”
• Apple MacBook Pro 15” (my current Mac)
• Apple iPod 3G (my current iPod)
• Apple Airport Extreme Base Sation (my current WiFi router)

• Mighty Mouse and Wireless Mighty Mouse

  Soon to be followed by an iPhone (europe version) for sure…

If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!

In three minutes, he found three sites that forgot this basic rule of web design.

Apple seems to have forgotten it’s background color at the Safari page. Don’t forget to check your own site as well!

(Via Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report.)

Query: my fucking keys

Result: On top of the fridge, right where you left them dipshit. (0.002 seconds)

Ruby is now in the top ten languages in the TIOBE index, and has been declared Programming Language of the Year for 2006 because it had the largest popularity increase in 2006 of all the languages tracked:

We are glad to announce that Ruby has become “Programming Language of the Year 2006″.

Ruby has the highest popularity increase in a year of all programming languages (+2.15%). Runner up this year is JavaScript with +1.31%. Both languages are boosted by their corresponding frameworks, Ruby On Rails and Ajax. This might be a new trend. In the recent past it was necessary to have a large company behind the language to get it in the spotlight (Sun with Java, Microsoft with C#), but nowadays a killer app appears to be sufficient. Viral marketing via the Internet works!

The winners of the last 2 years, PHP and Java, are the losers of this year. Other trends that are observed are the growth of dynamically typed languages and the fact that the difference in popularity between languages is getting less.

Via O’Reilly Network