Apple is to Ruby On Rails as Sun is to what?
February 28th, 2006 I see that apple have added a brief "intro tutorial":http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html to "RubyOnRails":http://www.rubyonrails.org. This proves what is quite apparent in the Rails community. Railers love Macs. It's quite obvious though, RubyOnRails development and Mac OS X go well together. The UNIX command line capabilites of Mac OS X work well as an environment to interact with a Rails application. So does the default command-line tools such as *ssh* and *svn*. But mainly its because Mac asthetics complement Web2.0 applications. And Railers are all about asthetics. So Apple need to take this ball and run with it. Become the _sugar daddy_ corporate backing for Rails. A job that Sun does for Java, without all the licensing revenue. So Apple ditch WebObjects and come over all RubyOnRails. First step make sure ruby, rails and lighttpd come ready installed with Mac OS X. Maybe a nice gems maintenance cocca application. The a Mac OS X Rails IDE, come on Apple buy "MacroMates":http://www.macromates.com you know you want to. And then redevelop the Mac site and store in Rails!
Rotten Apple
February 16th, 2006 The good news. Well they have upgraded my MacBookPro order from 1.87 GHZ to 2.0 GHZ "free of charge":http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/14/apple_macbook_pro_processor_boost/ although there is now a 2.16 GHZ version available so it won't be the fastest on offer. The bad news. They have put back the deliver by date to the 7th of March. Damn You Apple!! UPDATE: Its shipped!! Should arrive before the 24th!! nice one Apple