Links for October 9, 2006
Heh, you may see this as October 10 in your readers. That’s because I never know what date it is … unless it’s payday :-).
Some stuff I missed from last week, and a few tidbits from this morning.
- IE7 Is Coming This Month…Are you Ready?
- Unless you’re using some serious CSS ninjitsu, you’re ready.
- eHub Interviews adaptiveblue
- Adaptiveblue is a Firefox extension that uses semantics and context to create a richer browsing experience … er, I think that’s right.
- PHP developers most likely to switch to Rails
- I suspect that a lot of this has to do with many PHP coders being tinkerers on shared hosts. And RoR is The Hot. New. Thing. in web hosting. But that’s just a guess. I’m not about to fork over $795 to find out for sure :-). [Via PHPDeveloper.org]
- Objectifying JavaScript
- How to create and work with objects for cleaner JavaScript code.
- For Vista, WGA gets tougher
- While I understand Microsoft wants to protect its intellectual property, I just don’t trust them to get their Software Protection Platform right. My current PC may just be the last Windows machine I ever own.
- Safari and Javascript debugging
- An oldie, but a goodie, particularly if you’re new to front-end development in Safari.
“I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m not about to fork over $795 to find out for sure…”
Tiffany what was this line in reference to concerning the Sitepoint article? I read that thing three times and I didn’t see anything about someone charging a fee for learning Rails.
Coincidentaly, if you are interested in learning Rails all you will need is about $80.00 to pay for the two books that every one is using to learn Rails (myself included):
Agile Web Development with Rails
Programming Ruby (which is what the Rails Framework is built in)
The books are pretty affordable and they give a great introduction into Rails and Ruby. The AWDwR book even walks you through building a shopping cart application from scratch. It is the new hot. Oh, before you dive into the AWDwR book you’ll want to set up your development environment on your Mac:
Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on (Mac OS X)Tiger. Have fun riding the Train!!!!
The $795 is in regards to the report from which this statistic is pulled. http://www.sitepoint.com/reports/reportwebsurvey2006/
It costs $795.