24 January 08 - 18:41Ta-Da List

Ruby on Rails types have been going on and on about how their language and toolkit reduces the agonizing pain of web development to a mere tedious, numb pain. To this effect, one of the forerunners of the entire RoR "revolution" (read: MVC), have shown off that they have created a multi-user TODO list in 579 lines of code.

This is impressive; unless you count the actual Ruby on Rails framework it's based heavily upon. Commenters point out that you can easily write Photoshop in this fashion in a mere four lines of code or less.

Perhaps 37signals' next project should be to reduce their self-congratulation level to something below that of the Ron Paul "supporters" on Digg.

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13 January 08 - 14:15Trolling on the high seas.

No, not trolling for fish. Trolling for US naval personnel. How awesome is this guy's life?

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03 January 08 - 10:10Mega Man enforces police brutality

If the Canadian media is going to get this bent out of shape over a distasteful sprite animation, I can only imagine how unbelievably blind with rage they'll become if someone made a video game out of it.

You can just imagine it. Were I a less noble humanoid, I would take this opportunity to get megaexposure. Perhaps one of you has weaker ethics.

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01 January 08 - 11:52Web 2.0 Products you can't live without.

The reason why I was reserved about posting a link to TechCrunch earlier is because of stuff like this.

Things which are now "Web 2.0 products":

• Firefox
• Skype
• NetNewsWire

The Web isn't the Internet. I give up.

Personally, I had thought that "Web 2.0 products" are virtually useless websites which generate no revenue and are besieged by both spam and interface-convention-breaking, multi-coloured, broken-in-most-browsers JavaScript.

If we can declare things "Web 2.0 products" because they have something kind of sort of to do with the Web or RSS, apparently my new game's Twitter integration qualifies the entire game as a "Web 2.0 product," which makes me consider a suicide attempt and opens me to billions of dollars in ill-researched venture capital dollars.

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01 January 08 - 11:39[Web Development] is a ghetto.

Looks like the smart people in the Rails crowd are starting to figure out where the gravy train ends:

“This is exactly what makes Rails a ghetto. A bunch of half-trained former PHP morons who never bother to sit down and really learn the computer science they were too good to study in college.”

"Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average."

Remarkably, Digg has yet to respond to the controversy with hundreds of dull parody posts called "X is a Ghetto," where they hilariously malign other languages and toolkits. Oh, I can't wait to see the clever wit of people (and outsourcersfreshers) who don't know if O(n) or O(nⁿ) is faster.

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