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adapting to the new environment
Great speculation on the future of PHP now that Ruby on Rails has tipped. That graph on PHP usage looks like the start of a downward trend, but the latest snapshot tells a different story. Still, Duncan’s got an interesting argument going.
I’m just thankful that rails has come along because it’s forcing every [...]
Ning!
Ning has launched! Ning is a playground for building and sharing social apps. Go check it out! Don’t forget to make a confession. Yes, I’m now working for them full time.
Vile and Reckless
David Heinemeier Hansson:
“I consider stored procedures and constraints vile and reckless destroyers of coherence. No, Mr. Database, you can not have my business logic.”
If you haven’t listened to Adam Bosworth’s talk, ‘Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services‘, from the MySQL users conference earlier this year, it provides some interesting corroborative points to DHH’s [...]
Seriously Agile
Flickr’s Eric Costello: “we also have a very agile development process. We deploy code to the site maybe 10 times a day on a busy day.”
Axioms
A terrific essay by Ryan Tomayko on the design principles that underlie the web.
RSSAdFilter updated
I’ve made a small update to the RSSAdFilter greasemonkey script to block RSS ads from Feedster. I also discovered that Mark Pilgrim has been busy creating lots of greasemonkey scripts, including a nice one that beautifies directory listings from Apache.
update: I’ve just tweaked this again to remove google ads which have been appearing [...]
Greasemonkey: RSSAdFilter
Tonight I played around with Greasemonkey a bit, and wrote a quick script to remove the feedburner ads that get inserted into Boing Boing’s RSS feed. My original intention was to try to filter the ads out by making changes to temboz, but Greasemonkey made it simple to implement and easy to share.
XUL Resources
I’ve just posted a page of XUL Resources. Almost all of these came in handy while I was putting flickrfox together.