Tim O’Reilly published his analysis about the market of computer books’ sales. With this kinds of trends you can have a feeling about what leads in the market categories and what doesn’t. I’m not surprised seeing Ruby (+53%) ahead of Python (+37%) and Perl (-21%), nor to see how books about the web design and [...]
As I said earlier in June I cooperated (writing a chapter and reviewing the whole content) in the draft of the first book ever for Italian developers about Ruby and the Web. The book is going to be available in the stores before the end of this month so check it out my fellows Italian [...]
I feel evil tonight (here is 3:30am) and then the fortune brought me to the /benchmark directory in ActiveRecord repository (for who doesn’t know what ActiveRecord is, and I think due to the hype everyone knows, see Wikipedia ORM page.). A while ago someone slapped us with some bench between Rails, Django and Symphony and [...]
Now I can tell the world about it. Marco Ceresa is going to publish a Ruby book (unnamed yet) for the Italian Ruby community. He asked me to cooperate with him and other people to join his efforts. I’m really glad to being part of this almost finished project. I was hired as a former [...]
I released a you-should-have-released-it-months-ago version What’s new? SQLite 3 support What’s changed? Requires Rails 1.0 Atom 0.3 feed dropped http://rebbin.berlios.de/ A live version here: http://pasteserver.net/
What, pray tell, is a “freedom language”? Freedom languages are those languages that put the individual programmer at the center of their philosophical world. They work hard to remove any language constructs that reduce programmer freedom, and add the most powerful constructs available. Many are post-modern languages and most tend to be syntactically dense. The [...]
The svn version of Rebbin now supports SQLite 3, lighttpd and runs on top of Rails 0.14.3. Try it out!
I released another version with some improvements and few bugfixes What’s new? Atom 1.0 feed (in addition to RSS2.0 and Atom0.3 already there) Wordwrap for text-only snippets Basic comment support for each paste Use Rails caching system and custom caching for colourised snippets What’s changed? Wants Highlight 2.4 BSD licensed What about the future? I [...]
I released another version with some improvements and a lot of bugfixes What’s new? RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds XMLRPC and SOAP support: num_of_pastes: returns the number of pastes get_languages: returns the list of supported languages add_paste: adds a paste to the pastebin and returns the id get_paste: returns the paste with the given [...]
What is it? Rebbin is an open source pastebin developed in Ruby. What is a pastebin? A pastebin is a web application which allows its users to upload snippets of text, usually samples of source code, for public viewing [...] Why it does exist? Because I didn’t know what to code to learn Rails and [...]
