Archive for January, 2008

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Rails 2.0 - Changes and Improvements

Author: Jimmy

8 Jan

David H. Hansson - Photo: 43people.com

InfoQ had an interesting interview with David H. Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and its biggest proponent. He revealed many improvements in Rails 2.0 and how to upgrade from previous version. Here are some points:

Rails 2.0 is polished in a way that’s very hard to describe meaningfully in words, but very apparent when you use it with hundreds of tiny changes.
Migrating from Rails 1.2.x to 2.0 wouldn’t be too painful. Rails 1.2.6 is packed with deprecation warnings that allow people to get ready for 2.0 in a controlled way. Once your application runs well, it should be a short jump to 2.0.
Rails code base has grown to almost 94K lines of code from 54K that is trade-off for new features.
RESTful application development is the biggest theme for Rails 2.0.
About scalability, they’ve made some really nice improvements to the performance of Rails, though, so each individual server will be able to handle a bigger load (lots of caching optimizations in the code). And they’ve improved the usage of HTTP so the perceived speed of a Rails application is much better.

It’s great that the Rails community is moving forward and I’m quite exited to see the new features in Rails 2.0.

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Yahoo! Mail Portal

Author: Jimmy

8 Jan

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang showed glimpse into the future of Yahoo: “At Yahoo we want to be most essential starting point for your life,” and “take the complexity of the Web and simplify your life through very powerful technologies,” in his inaugural CES appearance. Yang also showed that Yahoo Mail will serve as the hub, but open interface to ...

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Spyware in Facebook Application

Author: Jimmy

7 Jan

According to this report from security firm Fortinet, anyone who has installed the third party Facebook application "Secret Crush" is at risk of installing spyware. The app allures users by saying "one of your friends my have a crush on you" and after installed it attempts to download the well-known spyware Zango. Over 1 million Facebook users may have been infected due ...

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Faster Ajax Applications

Author: Jimmy

7 Jan

I found this stuff really great! download (m4v) In this presentation, Julien -- author of the YUI Compressor and the YUI Browser History Manager -- covers several major performance topics: Developing for high performance High performance page load High performance JavaScript High performance DHTML High performance layout and CSS High performance Ajax Performance measurement tools You can download PowerPoint slides here or view them on Slideshare Thanks ...

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JavaScript Object Extension

Author: Jimmy

6 Jan

You may never use object extension in Javascript just because you, and many others, believe that a prototype based OOP languages like JS are unable to support this classical OOP feature. Matt Snider has comprehensive articles about object extension in JavaScript that show how JQuery (<= v1.2) and Prototype (<=v1.5) frameworks use "member copy" method, a brutal force technique to iterate ...

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