March 2009
3 posts
Rails developers aren't learning Ruby
Something I’ve realized over the past few years is that Rails developers aren’t learning Ruby anymore. The steps go something like this: Buy Agile Web Dev w/ Rails Write the app in the book Say you’re a Rails developer Get a job as one … read the Agile Web Dev book again (I’m not saying there is anything wrong with the Agile Web Dev book, I’m just using...
invalid xml namespace fb: why Ajax.Updater +...
I started playing around with Facebook Connect stuff a few weeks ago, and hit a wicked annoying problem. I was trying to return some FBML elements in an Ajax.Updater, specifically the face picker, but Firebug kept bitching about an invalid xml namespace. Google yielded nothing and Facebook’s wiki yielded nothing. My FBML namespace was declared on the HTML tag properly, and the Facebook...
Blogging is like programming is like life.
Blogging shouldn’t be this hard. 2 months. It’s been 2 months since I last posted to this thing. I am shocked at how difficult it has been to blog over the past few months. And the most shocking thing is _why_ I haven’t been able to blog. It’s not because I don’t have material (I got a text file on my desktop with over 20 possible topics), and it’s not...