…Ruby. One thing I envy in Ruby is the simplicity of so many of their libraries – both core and 3rd party. Python’s urllib2 never really felt natural but here is a solution. Requests: “HTTP for humans”. An example will do it justice: r = requests.get(‘http://www.straw-dogs.co.uk’) r.content Wow – clean, simple and quick. Add to [...]
I’ve tried more than once to jump onto the Google App Engine bandwagon to no avail. Unfortunately it’s preview nature is acting to frustrate any attempt I make build something I’m happy with. Just some thoughts so far: No Direction – It’s been dumped into the ether with no solid direction. No recommended method or [...]
After the recent turmoil I thought it may be worth pointing out a few alternatives to the Rails framework. So here’s 4 Ruby-based web framework alternatives for starters: Ramaze – Has no known bugs and claims excellent stability. Thems fighting words! Camping – A ‘micro-framework’, this is incredibly lightweight offering limited features but great efficiency [...]
Firebug already comes with solid profiling built in showing times, averages and call frequency for files but Yahoo have now released a plugin for Firebug (yes Firebug) that gives even greater detail on page performance and rates it based on Yahoo’s own performance criteria.You can grab the addon from the Firefox addons site (you’ll need [...]
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