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New Ruby Gem Paves Way For Future of Web Development

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Today I was scanning my del.icio.us links and came across an amazing new gem for Ruby on Rails called Hobo. It promises to be an “open-source extension to Ruby on Rails which helps you build full blown web applications incredibly quickly and easily.” And, let me tell you, it’s pure ...

Getting Real With Databases in PHP

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

It’s no secret that I don’t like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web apps running on Rails, but the framework just doesn’t fit with ...