Thu Dec 15
Sitepoint has alerted me to the fact that Ruby on Rails 1.0 is out. This increasingly popular scripting language and framework have been responsible for the rapid development of some of the darlings of Web 2.0, and looking at the examples of source code it’s easy to see why.
If I had some time I’d give this a very good looking into, but as things stand at the moment I’m seriously considering doing without sleep and use the time to work. Sigh.
Mon Dec 12
And what will it mean for web design and development? 2005 was a big year, the year that AJAX hit the headlines, the year Firefox got popular, the year Microsoft jumped on the CSS and RSS bandwagons. And a whole lot more besides, of course.
Andy Budd, one of the Brit Pack elite, has jotted down his predictions for 2006. I don’t pretend to be any great expert, but I’m sure that RSS will hit the big time, with more and more services for people to get useful info by XML in their email readers. What else will happen, time only knows. If 2005 is anything to go by, 2006 will be pretty amazing.
Sun Dec 11
Business idea (from K): allow car radios to pick up the audio from TV channels. That way you can keep up with the X-Factor, even when driving! Genius.
Fri Dec 9
Phew! That was a busy day. Two bits of advice for you. 1: learn about the wonderful HTML
element. 2: don't forget important passwords. *sigh*
Wed Dec 7
Two sites have floored me with their beauty recently.
Sonspring.com have opened access to their Mint statistics, and while I’d seem some screenshots of this remarkable system from Shaun Inman, the real thing is absolutely wonderful.
Jared Christiensen is a designer of not inconsiderable talent. His site may be pink, but it sure ain’t wussy. And no doubt his gorgeous design had something to do with him getting on the 9Rules network. Well done Jared.
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