Zenbits are posts which include a variety of interesting subjects that Iād like to talk about briefly, without writing a post for each of them. Ruby and Rails Videos Blip.TV is now hosting the videos of RailsConf 2007. The audio and video quality is very good even though no slides are shown (but you
Continue ReadingBenchmark Capital is one of the major VC in Silicon Valley, with a solid track record of successful investments, including giants such as eBay, MySQL and Second Life. A few days ago, Benchmark announced the financing of the Californian company Engine Yard, with an initial investment of 3.5 million dollars. In a climate of
Continue ReadingI finally got around to updating my recommended Ruby book page. I decided to split it and create two new pages, one for Ruby and the other for Rails. These include new gems (pardon the pun) such as Obie‘s The Rails Way (best book on Rails currently in print) and the fantastic Design Patterns
Continue ReadingLately the Ruby community has experienced a surge of new web frameworks. Most of them are respectable and promising open source projects created by people who tried to create lightweight but valid alternatives to Rails. Do I think that they will rise to fame just like Rails did? Of course not, but they are
Continue ReadingWhy is everyone picking on the guy, he’s obviously afflicted with Tourettes. š On a more serious note, I wrote about my thoughts on this matter in my Italian online magazine. This post could easily be considered the extended version of War and Peace and therefore, despite being quite interesting in my opinion, I
Continue ReadingIt looks like the new year has started off on the right foot. I just learned that Damien Katz, the mastermind behind CouchDB, is now an IBM employee. Not only that, but he’s being hired specifically to work on CouchDB full time. This is great news, in his own words: All the code will
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