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This is markup, it belongs in your layout files. You're really just disorganizing your app by putting this into middleware.

Nevertheless, they are fantastic. If anyone has links to similar presentations for other languages, I'd love to take a look.

http://briancray.com/2009/06/13/5-web-tools-user-experience/ Just a link with a "sign up for free" blurb.

http://briancray.com/2009/05/04/5-books-web-professionals/ Two sentence synopsis' with a link to Amazon.

http://briancray.com/2009/07/27/eye-tracking-studies-influen... Two sentence synopsis' with a link to the REAL content.

The REAL irony is the title of this post: "5 great examples of popular blog posts that you should know". It falls EXACTLY into your group of "XXX (the more the merrier) great examples of objects being rounded up with unique common characteristic".

Well... you just said it. Cross. Platform. Sure, you could write it in Cocoa. But then you'd have to write it again on GTK+. And again on whatever the Windows kit is called (I don't know).

If you're lucky enough to be familiar coding for all three platforms, that's great for you. The last question remains: Do you want to be maintaining three separate codebases for the same product?

I'm not too crazy about this. Contests can be good and bad at the same time. "Here guys, solve this very hard problem for us for free and we'll take it off your hands and we'll completely ignore your licensing wishes and use it without any restrictions whatsoever."

I envision a lot of "Well if you don't want to participate, DON'T!", but the point of the matter is, I see GitHub as taking advantage of a warm and supportive open-source community. The license of the submitted code should apply to everyone, including GitHub!

It's hard to explain my reasons for choosing -- like most language decisions (especially the difficult ones) it's mostly a matter of gut feelings. One thing I know is that it's better to decide now than to spend another year discussing the pros and cons.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/08793...

Honestly, posts like this are just detrimental to both communities. They're immature and show a complete lack of understanding of software development. Choosing the right tool for the job is rarely easy as "high level" and "low level".

Git was created to solve a specific need: Distributed development of the Linux kernel. The fact that it's been adopted by so many developers outside of the Kernel community shows that it is at minimum an adequate tool for the job. I'd go ahead and say, for those developers, Git > Mercurial. That's why they choose it.

For the developers who choose Mercurial, Mercurial > Git. That's why they've chosen Mercurial.

Please, before you publish stuff like this, remember that we're all on the same team. Next time, advocate Mercurial by talking about how it's improved your workflow. Talk about why Mercurial is better than Git for you, perhaps talk about the technical differences of the underlying implementations on a conceptual level.

That way, maybe you could help someone make an informed choice about what to use, instead of basing their decision on something as silly as the language it's written in.

http://nanoc.stoneship.org/

So this article and the points he's trying to make don't hold up.

So while not terrible... I feel like it's a desperate and rushed "look at me" attempt at a redesign.

I don't get it. Why is the GNU Project developing their own C# implementation but is seemingly anti-Mono? Hypocritical much? They want to discourage the use of C#... so they're developing their own C# suite? Doesn't make sense to me.

Question to those who may know: If C# is an ECMA standard, how can Microsoft shut down C# implementations legally? Aren't ECMA standards free for all to use?

Meanwhile... no DBA required. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Scala / Ruby are viewed as "fun" languages as well. You might as well try everything... you might find a groove quickly in one of them.

If you're hardcore, try MacIrssi (http://www.sysctl.co.uk/projects/macirssi/), which is seeing lots of active development.

After all, it's not like the concept is particularly original. And, the name is a spinoff of Twitpic. Twitvid is a very obvious name for a Twitter video-sharing site.

And yes, it does say something if your product is 'ripped' as a demo for someone else's service ;)

Fun fact: here in Canada if you have fake whois info they can take your .ca domain away!

What it sounds like to me are very motivated people working very hard to get an education that they really value.

I don't read any disrespect anywhere...

If, today, they brought it up to 2009 standards, and added iPod support, I'd bet they could take a good chunk of iTunes' marketshare on the Mac!