asides
Moving back to PHP from Rails
Derek Sivers has a short but interesting post about moving back to PHP after using Rails for 2 years. I think Rails significantly upped the bar for other web frameworks and languages, and the fruits of that are now abundantly apparent. Perhaps this is slightly hyperbolic, but almost everybody who programs the web [...]
zigversion
I’ve been using a great subversion client for OS X for a few days called ZigVersion. Highly recommended if you’re not a command line aficionado. They also have a free non-commercial license if you do open source; very cool.
links for a wednesday (18-07-07)
· Lawrence Lessig has a brilliant deconstruction of the central arguments in Andrew Keen’s book “The Cult of the Amateur”. I heard Keen interviewed on the sunday night safran podcast recently and was aghast at how many things he simply got wrong in his rambling attack on internet culture. Lessig pulls nicely at [...]
Coda and FlyGesture
A couple of nice looking OS X apps that I’m currently checking out: Coda, a code editor from panic (makers of transmit), and FlyGesture, an app that lets you assign mouse gestures to common tasks. There’s no way I’m ready to give up TextMate yet, but Coda looks like it could be handy for [...]