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The Social Media Minute
News moves so fast on the social media field, everyone needs a hand keeping up. Except for us of course, because we are like so on the ball. Yeah...ahem...right.
On that note here are the top social media stories from the past few days, distilled into a minute's worth of scanning.
Learning and Mastering Ruby on Rails on GNU/Linux and chosing Emacs, the perfect IDE
Much thanks to Phil Hagelberg for its technomancy.git project. You can get it from its git repo and study the code...
Web frameworks: a free software oriented study
"The web2.0 era has put the web application frameworks at the center of the free software community attention. Various opinions (1,2) and performance (1,2) comparisons have been published by free software enthusiasts trying to rank the quality and the potential of different web frameworks.
NetBeans IDE 6.1 is available!
I missed the anouncement on 28th as I was on leave. I have been using 6.1 since its beta and along RC1 & 2 and am really impressed by what it has become. A truly wonderful IDE. I always thought NetBeans was much better integrated than Eclipse, with this release it only gets better. They also have PHP experimental support. Do check this out!!!Blogged with the Flock Browser
Radiant 0.6.6 CMS Released
Radiant 0.6.6 was released over the weekend, shortly after the release of Radiant 0.6.5. Obviously, 0.6.6 of this built with Ruby on Rails CMS was released to fix some bugs in 0.6.5. So instead of focusing on the bugs, let's focus on what is new in 0.6.5/6 since Radiant 0.6.4 was released in November 2006.
Since Radiant 0.6.4, the latest versions of the software introduced two major changes:
- Rails 2.0.2 included (0.6.4 used Rails 1.2.5)
- RSpec 1.1.4 is used in core and supported in extensions
New book on Ruby on Rails
Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails is a new book from Packt which helps users to design, develop, and deploy a fully featured website using Ruby on Rails. Written by A. P. Rajshekhar, this book is a tutorial to create a complete Web 2.0 website with Ruby on Rails.
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications; accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. Often shortened to Rails or RoR, it provides a stack of tools to rapidly build web applications based on the Model-View-Controller design pattern.
Each chapter in this book adds a new feature to the site, adding new knowledge, skills, and techniques. This book is for anyone who has basic concepts of object-oriented programming as well as relational databases and wants to develop online applications using Ruby on Rails. Prior knowledge of Ruby or Rails is not expected.
The extinction of standardization dinosaurs on the software planet
"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.
The extinction of standardization dinosaurs on the software planet
"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.
The extinction of standardization dinosaurs on the software planet
"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.
The extinction of standardization dinosaurs on the software planet
"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.
Getting Behind Python: Sun Hires Python & Jython Developers
As both a fan and user of the great technologies Python, and the Sun JVM (primarily via Java), 
I was very happy to come across this eWeek article which says that Sun announced the hiring of two key Python engineers. You can read more about the hiring of Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki at their respective blogs.
Peerglobe Technology: Build Joomla! 1.5 MVC The Ruby on Rails Style
Arash Sanieyan from Peerglobe Technology in Vancouver has an excellent article for those who love Ruby On Rails and Joomla! v 1.5. He walks through steps needed to use a plugin called joomrails in order to generate a Joomla! component using Ruby. And, yes, it appears Arash is a friend of Joomla! developer and Rastin Mehr.
Ruby project yields to Microsoft
A community driven project for Ruby source code to run natively on Microsoft's .NET framework has shut down, faced by progress from an official Microsoft effort.
Automate Repetitive Typing with Snippits [Feature]
If you're a regular Lifehacker reader and Linux user, you probably have a hole in your productive little heart where a great text substitution app should be. Our own Texter makes repetitive phrases a...
