Very interesting concept. I’m wondering what the reaction will be from other Rails developers and the core team. I’m excited to try it out on my next project…
Unspace - HAML: HTML Abstraction Markup Language

Use Streamlined with Rails!
It takes the whole concept of views and cranks it up a notch.
If you don’t trust me (and why would you…) then watch the screencast.

Amen Brotha. It’s OK to be tricky like this.

Flash 9 for Xubuntu « Xubuntu Blog

Wanna use link_to, but dynamically change one of the options (like class)?
Here’s a cool tip for changing it based on the current controller / action:

Highlight link for current action

One of the coolest widgets I’ve seen in a long time:
Wiglet: Desktop widget in Jell-o guise shakes for earthquakes - Download Squad

My company, Apollo Group Inc, does rock. Besides the killer heath insurance, my bosses have agreed to send me to RubyConf 2006 in Denver! WooHoo! I was scheduled to go to Denver later that week for a WebLogic training anyways. I pleaded to get the plane tickets moved a few days early so I’m able to hit RubyConf.

Yeah - pretty nerdy, but I’m ok with that.

Democracy player .debs giving you the fits? (ie: ImportError: libgtkembedmoz.so)
Install ‘mozilla-dev’ and ‘mozilla-psm’ as seen in:
#3234 (Problem running on Ubuntu Dapper) - Democracy - Trac

One of the best ways to describe the whole http “REST” concept:
How I explained REST to my wife…

A new Rails LiveCD just came out. It’s got:

• Ruby 1.8.4
• Rails 1.1.2
• Capistrano 1.1.0
• Mongrel 0.3.13
• Rake 0.7.1
• Subversion
• MySQL 4.1.12
• MySQL Administrator
• RadRails
• KDevelop
• Kate

If only it were built using Ubuntu or Knoppix and not Mandriva

I’ve learned several life lessons recently. I’ll share:

1. The tech scene down here in the valley rocks. I attended the Phoenix Linux Users Group last week and heard a sweet presentation by Vince from Google about Linux on the Enterprise Desktop. Nice work - especially about the specifics with Linux (Unix) user scalability issues. Two other cool things happened. I sat by someone taking notes with an Apple Newton (go figure) and more importantly I won the big prize in the raffle swag give-away - a Google Lava-lamp! That sweet baby is going on my desk right next to my well-worn Ruby pickaxe book. BAM!

2. We got to see the Mesa Arizona LDS Temple Easter Paegent. It was a great show and the weather was awesome (as usual). Bailey even managed to stay awake through the whole thing, though she fell asleep soon after hitting the carseat.

3. Rails generally blows on Oracle. Besides the v1.1 issue I found in Active Record, it seems that the whole concept of Rapid Application Development is lost on most Oracle DBA. (Why do you want 3 sepearate users? Why would you automatically blow away your test environment? Blah, blah, blah.) Do what I did - Even if you don’t have root - install mysql and be done with it. (It really isn’t that hard - I even did it on Solaris 8 without gcc)