Laura Barton meets Andrew Bird | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music (tags: andrewbird guardian interview music) Nick Cave: I was traumatised by bible | NME.COM A new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record will soon be with us: “The band release single ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’ ahead of their 14th studio album on March 3, which shares the same title.” (tags: music nickcave nme)
When Ruby on Rails first hit the scene, what attracted many of us to it was ActiveRecord. By providing a declarative syntax for describing relationships, validations, and callbacks it provided an elegance to model code that makes programming a lot more fun. Over the past couple of years ActiveRecord has received a lot of love, with has_many :through and improved caching options being the key additions I’ve enjoyed. But despite all that it’s given, ActiveRecord is clearly not the last word in Object Relational Mappers and it’s been good to see increased attention for some alternative Ruby ORM s such as DataMapper. ...
The Rails startup process from a paragliders perspective - artweb design A nice overview of the Rails 2.0 request cycle (tags: initialization rails2.0 rubyonrails) CASH Music: Pay Zero to $1,000 for Varying Levels of Access to Music | Listening Post from Wired.com “If you want to pay more, you can. $500 gets you a visit into the studio to observe Hersh recording; $1000 gets you that plus a Featured Sponsor designation on her next CD; and for $5,000, you’d get both of those things plus an Executive Producer cre ...
Facebook appear to have given in to pressure over the debacle I wrote about a few days ago. According to their announcement: Users must click on “OK” in a new initial notification on their Facebook home page before the first Beacon story is published to their friends from each participating site. We recognize that users need to clearly understand Beacon before they first have a story published, and we will continue to refine this approach to give users choice. ...
Practical Rails Projects is a weighty tome, coming in just shy of 600 pages, which led to this review taking a little longer than it otherwise might: not just because the book took a while to get through, but also because it wasn’t quite so practical to lug it on the bus as some of the others I’ve recently covered. A result of that heft is a fairly comprehensive volume, but one that doesn’t feel quite so consistent as it perhaps should. ...
24 ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6 Great. I’ve used Drew’s previous sleight script numerous times, so the new Super Sleight seems like a great addition to the toolkit (tags: 24ways internetexplorer png) Mediamatic Lab releases PHP OAuth server and client « OAuth (tags: api oauth php) Acquia, my Drupal startup | Dries Buytaert With his studies coming to an end Dries Buytaert is forming a company that will let him work on drupal core professionally. Good to hear discussion of drupal 7 becoming more of a data repository with APIs a plenty. ...
WorldChanging: Meet Me in Grand Rapids WorldChanging seem quite taken with our former home (tags: grandrapids greenbuilding worldchanging) Nativity scene recast with security barrier for ‘Kitschmas’ | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Covering Amos Trust’s “walled nativity set” (tags: amostrust nativityset)
Agile RSS Aggregator in Ruby - igvita.com Very light weight feed aggregation (tags: aggregation atom rss ruby) Home | Email Standards Project “The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.” - good to see this launching (tags: email htmlemail webstandards)
OAuth Consumer for Tiger and Leopard available « OAuth A nice addition to the toolkit (tags: macosx oauth) Doonesbury for November 27th 2007 Pandora.com gets some doonesbury attention (tags: cartoon doonesbury futureofmusic musicpromotion pandora) php 5.3 | Gergely Hodicska Good overviews of what’s new in the forthcoming PHP 5.3 (due early next year). Some nice looking features but on first viewing I’m far from thrilled with the syntax around namespaces. XSLT profiling looks nice though. (tags: namespaces php php5.3 xslt) Social networking . . . all in a good cause | Media | The Guardian ...
Having blogged in a way that might have been interpreted as enthusiastic (it came out less cautious than I had intended) about facebook’s social ads system when it was first announced it seems only appropriate to wade into the furore surrounding the actual implementation. It seems facebook have caused a considerable amount of upset with the way they implemented their system. Technically it’s very interesting, using some clever javascript tricks ( as I link blogged last night) to report your activity on various sites back to facebook. But practically it’s far less impressive as you’ll have to really keep on your toes to even notice what is being reported, and there’s no easy way to opt out of having your activity on participating websites reported to your facebook network. ...