Rails 1.1 is finally out, DHH announced it yesterday.

There are a lot of great features in this release and the most expected is certainly RJS. Basically, a Javascript generator that lets the programmer express Javascript statements in Ruby from the server-side. A great example of DSL.

This release also feature bugfixes and ActiveRecord improvements such [...]

I’ve been using Ruby on Rails for 6 months now and I find it great at what it does. I used it for personal web projects but soon I realised that it would be of a great value to use it in the company I work for.

I’m in the high-tech wireless gaming business. We [...]

Inkling is a Web 2.0 startup that just launched one month ago. The idea behind Inkling is that you exchange shares in what you believe will happen: the chances that Apple will release a mobile phone in the next 6 months, or the future success of a book.

Inkling behaves like the real stock market [...]

There was a lot of excitement around the recent acquisition of Writely by Google.

Writely is a web-based processing and document sharing software, a nice piece of work. Google has announced for a long time that they planned to release a web-based office suite and apparently they are building it piece by piece. They now [...]

Over the last couple of years I didn’t pay any attention to the Ruby programming language; you can’t spend your entire life studying programming languages, you have to make choices and get things done.

I worked a lot with Common Lisp and Java and I discovered Ruby when looking at competitive web framework — especially [...]

I went through a recent white paper from Rod Boothby about the “Web Office”. Web Office is a naming that gather all these emerging productivity web application about: calendars, e-mails, blogs, project management, chats and so on…

This paper provide a good analysis about how these kind of applications will change the way we work [...]