When I was a kid my family lived in Geneva for 5 years. It was a formative time in my life, and I still think very fond thoughts of the Swiss. I’ve always thought of them as a rather typical European country, but smaller, more quaint and with a much more closed and [...]
Right on, Mr. H!
Andrei Herasimchuk has just written an open letter to John Warnock at Adobe, suggesting that he, and really Adobe, contribute a small group of roughly 10 core fonts to the public domain. That’s not so cool. What’s cool is the rationale behind the request. If these fonts — fonts [...]
Whether or not you’re ready for it, IE7 is coming. And it’s coming soon. It’s coming as an automatic update, although the IE7 blog folks have been a little shy about specifying a date.
This is great news!
Wait a minute. Let’s try that again.
This should be great news!
Why do people flip out over RoR? Primarily, because it’s fast. It’s so fast to develop new applications in RoR. But why? What separates RoR from any of the other frameworks out there? The approach that defines RoR is “convention over configuration,” and that’s where much of the speed comes [...]
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