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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 [...]

I’ve run Apache on my Mac for as long as I’ve had OSX, using either the built-in version or the ServerLogistics package, which they don’t make anymore. It always worked great, and when I started learning PHP, it was easy to install and make work. Getting SSL to work was a little bit [...]

Many of the leading luminaries of modern standards-based web design have been very excited about the upcoming release of IE7; the promise of not having to support yet another crappy browser has been very tempting.
Let’s recap what’s happened, though.

Since I’ve been playing around with RoR I’ve found the
script/server
trick for development to be fantastically useful. It’s quick to use, the server itself is fast, and it’s everything I could want. That is, until it’s time to go in to production mode. I’ve been running Apache, using OSX’s built-in build, but I’m [...]

I’ve been trying to learn Ruby on Rails. So far I’ve found it to be a very elegant solution to the problem of writing web apps. Until now I’ve used Tango or PHP, but I hope that I never have to use them again.
I recently had a rather interesting problem, however. My [...]