Posts Tagged ‘Web’

Some thoughts on Ruby envy and Bubble 2.0

Friday, October 12th, 2007

From my favorite J's in the community.

This one from Jeremy Miller:

Thoughts of ditching the warm, comfortable womb of .Net for life out on the Ruby edge are coming with much less frequency.  There's some good stuff right where we're at!  Heck, we might even get a performant version of Ruby on the CLR in the nearish future.  C# 3.0 isn't Ruby in terms of expressiveness, but it's not chopped liver either.  We're still behind the curve a little bit in terms of community activity and passion, but it's getting there.  I'm happier to be in the .Net world right now than I've been in a long time.  I don't have to jump to Ruby to get the community I want to be in.  We can just make it right here. [Jeremy Miller]

And this one, from Jeff Atwood's Twitter.

life is too short to stay at a job where you're not doing the things you want to do. Bubble 2.0 people. Exploit for your own ends. [Jeff Atwood]

It's a great time to be a dev, people!

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Easy RSS Aggregation and much more with Pageflakes

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

I first came across Pageflakes while browsing the ASP.NET AJAX Showcase page. The concept was simple enough: using the ASP.NET 2.0 web parts feature combined with ASP.NET AJAX, one could drag and drop new panels, called "flakes", on tabbed pages to customize a sort of personal portal/home page.

At first I thought it was perfect for me; I've been looking for a web-based RSS aggregator, and Pageflakes does the job quite well. But what made it indispensable were a host of other flakes like:

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iMob and Webtifada – When Cyberspace invades Meatspace

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

An article on this month's issue of The Escapist Magazine talks about the dire scenarios encountered when one's meatspace (real world) identity is revealed and causes them to lose their anonimity online.

Take for example, this scenario:

It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of China's most popular Internet bulletin boards, from a husband denouncing a student he suspected of carrying on an affair with his wife.

Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. "Let's use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons," as one person wrote, "to chop out the heads of these adulterers, to pay for the sacrifice of the husband." Within days, the hundreds had grown to thousands, and then tens of thousands, with total strangers forming teams to hunt down the student's identity and address, hounding him out of his university and causing his family to barricade themselves inside their home. [International Herald Tribune]

Goes to show how China's sexually conservative culture prevails even in the internet, in light of the crackdown on Chinese sex bloggers and porn early this year.
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