Goodbye 2007

December 31st, 2007 • 2 comments General

You’ve been full of interruptions, full of strange decisions.

You’ve set two of my friends free of their Dilbert’ese jobs.

You’ve made me cut down my feeds, my reads, and my emails.

You’ve been teaching me a lesson, and showing me new visions.

Goodbye 2007.

Reading RSS Smartly

December 10th, 2007 • General

Since the early days of FeedDemon, I heard Nick gripe about information overflow, and how he wasted time sifting through irrelevant stories.

I bumped into AideRSS, a feed reader that ranks posts and stories by the number of conversations. The idea is simple: count the number of links from Technorati, del.icio.us and the likes, and convert it to a rank relative to the rest of the posts from the same blog.

It might not sound very exciting, until you hit that spot of 100+ posts a day, then you’ll appreciate having a tiny robot filtering your news and giving you the relevant stories.

Rails 2.0 Released

December 8th, 2007 • 1 comment General

I can’t believe it’s been that long. It feels like yesterday, but four and half years have past by.

I don’t think there’s a better time to learn, or relearn, Rails. It’s a 2.0 release, which should give you some peace of mind. It’s overhauled, so it feels less “hacky”. And it’s not as hyped anymore, so you can see it for what it is, a tool not a myth.

Take a look at David’s notes on the new release. Tell me if it’s too quite for a 2.0.