Radical Behavior

YouTube - Ruby on Rails vs PHP - RailsEnvy.com Commercial #3
This video is hilarious. And oh so true. 

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I’ve played with both Rails and CakePHP and found them both to be awesome development environments. However, after a few frustrating weeks of dealing with other’s PHP code (not related to CakePHP), I’ve determine that PHP is the equivalent of today’s Perl (Perl lovers will hate this analogy). Perl allowed anyone to create great [...]

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I found something interesting today. Apparently this week, the Wikipedia article on Twitter linked to my 5 question interview with Twitter developer Alex Payne under the References section. When I went to check out the link, I found it has been removed. I wonder if it was removed because someone thought I added it (self-promotion [...]

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I reached out to one of the developers on the Twitter team and asked if he would answer 5 questions. Alex not only answered them but is very honest and up front with his answers. Thanks Alex!

How did you end up on the Twitter team? What is a little of your background?Pretty simple: they posted [...]

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Here’s a quick tip if you are using the Rails console to create/debug a project. If you make a change to one of your models, make sure you restart the console. I must have spent 30 minutes banging my head against the table trying to figure out why my model wasn’t working. Finally as a [...]

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After spending some time evaluating content management software and blogging software, I wanted to get back to roots and do some actual programming. I’ve had an idea for a web 2.0 applications for awhile and want to use it as an excuse to learn Ruby on Rails. I listened to the Inside the [...]

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