That’s right. Now they’re FLYING.
Link for those that keep up with this stuff.
My 2 cents: It looks and feels better a LOT more than beta 2. Looks like the final version 3 is going to be awesome.
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I don’t know why this is happening recently (I think it started yesterday), but FireFox 3 Beta 2 seems to choke up with HTTPS.
Looking at Bugzilla (Which, by the way, is inaccessible using my version of beta…), there seems to be a few issues with HTTPS. But nothing in particular to what I was looking at.
After trying updating within the program itself (which failed), and looking for a manual update, it seems like I still have the most recent version of the beta. But then, all of a sudden, the https started to work again. Even though it was the same exact version.
I’m beginning to think all of this was in my mind.
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
If any single human being has read this book from beginning to end and can explain to me the insanity that is “why”, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee to do so.
I have given up on this book. From the looks of it, I’ve tried three different times over the course of about a year and got to about halfway (I’ve highlighted about halfway through).
Definitely poignant, but horrendously confusing. It definitely is a work of art, but I’m kinda impatient for this type of thing. Sometimes, the really really wonky humor is lost on me, and this, my friend, is a shining example of it.
Time to go back to the Pickaxe book.
It’s eerie. I feel it. I feel it in the feed posts I should be getting.
There seems to be less and less feed items about Rails in general. I don’t know… maybe it’s just me… Obie Fernandez says otherwise:
Simply browse the ruby links on programming.reddit.com or the list of over 2000 ruby-related links on DZone to disprove that lie.
But I don’t know… just this gut feeling that I can’t shake that there’s this feeling of meh-ness in the community.
A lot of things have been leading up to this point for me. Working with PHP at work and having Java as the core for StatusFix (although I’m not actually doing Java, but just being this near to it… makes me feel a bit different) is helping me see more and more that there really is no silver bullet, no matter how much I want it.
But that’s merely just an aside. The point of this post comes from Global Nerdy.
It’s very likely that we’re in or very near the Trough of Disillusionment stage in the hype cycle when it comes to Rails. Makes a lot of sense, if you ask me. The way I see it, the hype has worn off. And thank goodness it has, because finally, the Rails community can get to work on making awesome things and stop defending or attacking other positions.
As a crazed extremist that has to have his way, I feel like I’ve still got quite a long ways to go in maturing as a developer/manager. New technologies will come and go, and picking the right ones… well, that’s the hard part. It’s almost like… the stock market.
I’m so happy I could cry. Okay, maybe not. I’m not that nerdy.
But I feel as though some sanity has been restored to the world. hopeful sigh.