April 2008
The Rails core team is inching towards version 2.1 of Rails which adds a myriad of new features including named scopes, gem dependencies and native timezone support. The official launch of GitHub has... Read More
I’m a big fan of continue, partly just because it’s a positive and encouraging word (carry on, everything’s fine), but mostly because it can reduce code and improve efficiency, and... Read More
Obviously the big news this week was that the first ColdFusion updater, 8.0.1, was released – and was subsequently re-announced by seemingly every blog in MXNA and Fullasagoog! In between all... Read More
Popular crowdsourcing site 99designs.com launched a slick new design last week. In this candid interview, the site's designer, Xavier Mathieu, shares some of the early mockups that shaped the site's... Read More
Earlier this week, Google announced the preview release of Google App Engine, a service that lets you build and run web applictions (in Python only for now) on Google’s own server... Read More
Yahoo! is currently running a two week trial of Google’s Adsense on 3% of its US search results. The trial is seen as an investigation into the prospects of a long term partnership between the... Read More
The continuing story of Yahoo and Microsoft opened another chapter this week. Microsoft set forth an ultimatum regarding their acquisition offer [WARNING: Humorous Ballmer Photo] and Yahoo issued a... Read More
Sick of hearing about great CSS features you can't use? Find yourself playing it safe with CSS when building web sites? Wondering where went yesterday's promise of a bright future with CSS? Future... Read More
We’ve extended the deadline for this competition by two weeks. You asked for more competitions, so here’s another one! We’re giving away two copies of Adobe CS3 Web Premium (kindly... Read More
From their secret techno-lairs the Google developers have revealed a preview of their latest creation: App Engine: Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s... Read More
Microsoft are planning on following Apple's lead on backwards compatibility with the next version of their Windows operating system, referred to as Windows 7, to be launched as early as next year.Read More
The beta 5 release of Firefox 3 was released this week, and contains the following improvements: Improvements to the user interface, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows... Read More
After a long beta cycle, ColdFusion 8.0.1 is now available! The updater incorporates a heap of fixes and enhancements which you can read about in the release notes (PDF) and FAQ. Notably, 64-bit... Read More
On BlueDragon Open Source: Vince Bonfanti, President of New Atlanta, has announced that BlueDragon Open Source will be unveiled at the cf.Objective() conference in May. Vince also speaks his mind on... Read More
