Links for 2005-04-26
- 'Interesting' / useful looking PHP cheat-sheet I sometimes find it hard to remember whether it's Ruby or PHP that I'm trying to find the time to learn. Ruby's more fashionable...
- The London Review of Books' Personals column is now available online... Beautifully English... "The LRB's own Son of Jor-El, stuck in the Phantom Zone of the personal ads for three years now. Reckon I could still lick anyone of you wusses. Man, 36. Alone. Tonight, and very possibly forever. Box no. 07/12"
- A (Near)-Complete List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts Terrifyingly fun list of keyboard shortcuts for hours of entertainment with your Mac laptop
- The Public Whip's quick election quiz It's a nice piece of work this - you put in your postcode and how you feel about some core issues and it matches you to a party
- Aardvark Firefox Extension This looks like a stunningly useful little Firefox extension for debugging and exploring HTML / XTML documents online
- Are Adaptive Path working on an Ajax app? And if so, can I come play?
- Microsoft Social Computing Symposium 2005 God, I've been so distracted I didn't even realise this was happening. Drool. Sigh.
- Does anyone speak or read Turkish well enough to translate this article?
- Microsoft Comes Under Fire for Reversal on Gay Rights Bill It looks like Microsoft have buckled under pressure from Christians threatening a Microsoft boycott. A better move would be to talk to all their competitors and go in as a united body.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
"I sometimes find it hard to remember whether it's Ruby or PHP that I'm trying to find the time to learn. Ruby's more fashionable..." My vote is for Ruby, as it's *much* more sexy. Ruby On Rails is sexier still.
→ Posted by: Patrick at April 26, 2005 2:07 AM
I've got a suggestion: how about using a style sheet switcher so us readers can choose what colour highlighter we want to use for the links on the site? I'm quite partial to purple myself. I know it's extra work for you and you probably can't be bothered right now, but it's just an idea...
→ Posted by: MacDara at April 26, 2005 8:58 AM
The headline of the article says that "blogs are replacing search engines" The rest of the article is about how important and useful blogs are in daily life (supports this idea by giving sone statistical data) Moreover it's written that a mother had found her child in ten days after she "wrote a blog" and an employee lost his job after working eleven years just because he wrote a blog criticising his boss. The last part is tyhe list of most popular and most visited blogs that had won the "Bloggies" award. the list is as follows: www.boingboing.net, www.plasticbag.org, www.defamer.com etc.
→ Posted by: ulufare at April 26, 2005 9:05 AM
Ditto Patrick's comment. Ruby - it's just got to be. :)
Also echo your comments about M$ Symposium. Only found today myself. Where do these things get announced?
→ Posted by: tony at April 26, 2005 11:34 AM
Yeah, I started an online course on Ruby which looked really interesting, but I've not had that much time to explore in depth. There always seems to be something I could get done more usefully in the same amount of time - although perhaps that's a short-termist view. With regards to the people complaining / commenting on the link colour - I've made it totally random now. Not quite what you wanted, but maybe kind of fun...?
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at April 26, 2005 11:43 AM
Ruby's sexy, but it's aggressively object oriented (in a good way) which can be confusing depending on how much other development knowledge you have. It leads to Rails, which is doubleplus sexy, but starting with, say, PHP, is in some ways a more traditional foundation that might serve you better, and would be easier to build on in order to, say, learn Ruby at a later date.
Dan Benjamin explains this well in this post (which may well break your formatting):
http://hivelogic.com/archives/2005/02/27/regarding-ruby-and-ruby-on-rails/
→ Posted by: tom (not Coates) at April 26, 2005 12:29 PM