Here is a short list of 21 fellow rubyist that also use twitter. By no means is this a complete list, this is just all the ruby/rails hackers that I follow. If you like to follow me just befriend me and I’ll be sure to add you to my friend list. DHH Why The Lucky [...]

After working for upstart startup, I thought of a few axioms of working for a small and agile team in a fast and merciless marketplace. In a startup, you can have any title you want, say VP of Version Control, but no one reports to you other than yourself. In a startup, if you code it, break [...]

If you don’t understand Open Source licensing, don’t start an Open Source project. Keep your code! ExtJS, a JavaScript framework for building business forms, recently made big news, the bad kind, when it changed it’s license from LGPL to GPL. ExtJS started as an extension to the Yahoo! UI library. ExtJS had been [...]

The Startup School 2008 is a one day conference geared towards entrepreneurs put together by the folks behind YCombinator. This year the speakers included David Heinemeier Hansson creator of Ruby on Rails, Mike Arrington founder of TechCrunch, Paul Graham founder of YCombinator, Peter Norvig Director of Research of Google, Paul Buchheit of GMail/FriendFeed, Greg [...]

The Shoes microframework has a small number of succinct data entry controls. Essentially you can create User Interface forms and screens with buttons, text fields, text areas, and select options. All of the Shoes UI controls can have associated code blocks that execute when the control changes. For example, lets create a text field [...]

Ruby on Rails is perhaps the most popular Ruby-based web framework, but it is not the only web framework that is available to fellow rubyist. In fact there is a growing number of alternative Ruby Web Frameworks. In not particular order, here is a short list of my top favorite Ruby web frameworks. Ruby [...]

I own my personal and private Ruby and Rails library. If I haven’t misplaced any of my books, I currently have ten of the top Ruby and Rails books. From each book I have learned something new about Ruby and Rails. If you are a new programmer learning Ruby or Rails, you [...]

Technology pundits and developers alike are busy writing and speculating about Google’s latest SDK, Google App Engine, before they actually write code. People are speculating that this will position Python as the dominant dynamic scripting language for the next hype cycle. Other have mentioned that this is Google’s entry into cloud computing, web [...]

Google has just made available a preview release of Google App Engine. Google App Engine is an application programing environment built with the same scalable technology and infrastructure that runs some of Google’s applications. App Engine is available as a Software Development Kit (SDK). Once an application is developed for App Engine, [...]

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the YouTube / Picasa Web API Hackathon at Googleplex. Google is always a great host and they provided food, t-shirts, and even raffled a pass to Google I/O. The hackathon started out with presentations by folks on the Google Data (GData) team. All of Google application [...]