So where was I? Ah yes, in yesterday’s post I left off with me going back to Ruby for my personal projects. My standard choice for web development has been Ruby on Rails for a while now (although I haven’t had a chance to try Rails 2.0 yet). However, lately I’ve been playing with Merb. Merb is essentially a lightweight Rails replacement, originally built to address some specific (largely bloat and performance related) concerns....
It’s been a while since I last blogged about any technologies I’ve been playing with, so I figured I’m due for an update. I am going to split this into a two-part series: First I will play catch up and talk about the technologies that I’ve played with over the past 6 months or so. In the second article, I will go over some of the technologies that I’m currently exploring, or that I am planning to explore next....
Today, TechCrunch posted an article about a stealth job site that makes companies pay candidates to interview with them. NotchUp is currently in beta and invitation-only, but apparently the site will allow candidates to set their own price (although a calculator is provided that suggests a price based on experience, current salary, etc.), in an attempt to lure the kind of passive job seekers that many companies would be interested in finding....
As you may have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. I am hoping to change this and start posting more regularly again. In the mean time, I have adopted Twitter, so please feel free to follow my Twitter stream.
A few days ago, fantasy author Terry Pratchett announced some sad news on Josh Kirby’s blog (in a post titled “An Embuggerance”). Apparently he has been diagnosed with a rare, early onset form of Alzheimer’s. His blog post sounds optimistic under the circumstances: Folks, I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my > publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news....