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The most qualified candidates send in a blank resume and update it one word at a time fifty times each day ;)

Interesting move on Microsoft's part. Just want to clarify that the title is somewhat misleading: this is not available to all Vista users, just users who get new PCs from participating OEMs from here on in.

Let's hope Apple can one-up this and actually offer Snow Leopard as a free upgrade to all Leopard users. But probably not.

Wow, I can't even begin to tell you how misinformed you are.

Rails is not geared towards web apps, and Django is not geared towards web sites. Both tools are what you make of them; just because Django includes a built-in admin interface doesn't mean it has to be "rejiggered" to build anything else. Both, as full-stack frameworks, provide nearly exactly the same set of tools to the developer: an ORM, a templating language, a routing framework, and the glue that ties everything together.

You are also patently wrong about the importance differences being at a higher level. If you are only using the shallow, superficial features available to you, you are missing out on the differences that do make each framework unique. Anyone who has spent any quality time with either framework can tell you that these "high level" features (e.g. Rails scaffolding or Django's Admin) are almost never used in a real project. Next time, I would highly recommend going beyond the 15-minute screencast and actually reading into the guts of your framework. Who knows, maybe you could become a professional one day ;).

I cannot tell you how happy I am to finally see Ticketmaster under the gun for this. Over the summer when Radiohead came to Toronto, it was literally seconds before Ticketmaster was "sold out" and redirecting users to TicketNow for tickets at over double face value.

I was one of the lucky few to get tickets directly from Radiohead at a pre-sale a few weeks before.

It is absolutely wrong for Ticketmaster, who has control over probably 95% of the tickets for every show, to turn around and sell them for double the price. It's a conflict of interest, and makes some shows prohibitively expensive. Ticketmaster is scum.

So basically it's saying work hard and act smart? How is that gaming the system? Is this article a parody?

Hey, nothing wrong with charging for open source! It's win-win: you get compensated for your great work and we enjoy the benefits of having the source code freely available.

Thank you.

I'm pretty sure we could argue about Javascript. Just mention Prototype and the jQuery zealots are relentless! :P

At the risk of sounding stupid, can someone explain to me exactly what "meta" in this context means?

For those who are like me and open a ton of tabs at once: this is the one that's autoplaying. Just a heads up.

eBaum has a reputation for plagiarism and copyright infringement-- what goes around comes around I guess.

Same problem here-- I'm at York University in Toronto, which is @yorku.ca.

Bah! 5 months? Rails has an acts_as_crm plugin, I could've been done in 5 seconds. Next! :P

Who cares if it validates? The underlying markup is pretty unsemantic.

Just because it validates doesn't mean it's a well-coded website.

The best line on their site is definitely “The Ruby-Python-Bridge™ allows you to interface your Ruby and Ruby on Rails Apps directly to Python via TCP/IP.”

What the hell does that even mean?

Yeah... I pretty much hate Smashing Magazine and sites like it. All they do is make lists... lists... lists... and then load the site chock full of ads.

The content is rarely original and never has any intrinsic value.

Based on Swing and WPF? I've never used either... but I've only ever heard bad things about both.

I'm sorry, but I just don't see many of those as weird. They're (mostly) well-designed and carry an obvious metaphor, as any good logo should.

Clever, maybe. Weird, no.

DHH is definitely not being a jerk. The quote the author supplies for DHH's "being a dick in the past" is “I’m not in this world to create Rails for you. I’m in this world to create Rails for me and if you happen to like that version of Rails that I’m creating for me, than you are going to have a great time.”

There's nothing wrong with building your project, for you. David isn't being paid to do Rails by anyone other than 37signals. As we recently touched upon with Capistrano's "800lb gorilla, but it's not _my_ gorilla", there's nothing that makes you a dick for not developing features you don't need.

In fact, I don't ever really think I've actuality seen DHH be much of a dick, to anyone. Linus Torvalds, now he's a dick! Maybe DHH needs to man up and talk some shit about GNOME and C++ more often?

I'm actually quite surprised that his pages per visit is so low.

Also, I know it's an informal blog, but I think it's really unprofessional to call something the "DO NOT WANT" release. I'm really sick and tired of half-baked "memes" being included in writing as weak attempts at humor. It just comes across badly to me.

Personally, I dislike the new design. It has good intentions but it misses the mark. This would have been a good example of when not to listen to your users-- of course the majority of them is going to prefer gradients and flashy dropdowns.

It feels to me as if it was built like a crappy powerpoint presentation: sliding and fading just for the sake of sliding and fading. Everyone thinks "Ooh, ahh!" but there really isn't any added usability to the effects.

In some parts of the interface, you have to click multiple times to get to something you shouldn't have to click on to see at all. Once again, you click just for a dropdown. Then you have to click again to get to where you want to go. Eye candy for the sake of eye candy.

In my opinion, the 2.5 Happy Cog design was the best of the bunch. It improved drastically, usability-wise, on top of the previous release, and it did so by re-aligning, no re-designing. You may argue that Happy Cog was limited by the fact that they had to base their work on a previous structure, but I really believe this is the best way to improve UI: incremental updates, each improving upon the last, instead of one quick release that wasn't too well thought out.

If you had followed Derek's link you would have found out he sold CD Baby for $22 million :)

Anybody else sick of these sites that live solely on posting "lists"? I mean, all this is is an aggregate of what you can find on jQuery.org or a google search, and the sites are usually loaded with ads.

Underhyped??

Songbird has been getting consistent, solid press since it was in Alpha.

OpenOffice 3 got so much traffic on launch the servers crashed for days.

I don't think I've stopped reading about Dropbox since it started it's public beta.

Why are you posting this when I can't even sign up to try it out? It looks good, but "We will send you an email when the beta program starts." = FAIL.

lol-- isn't your blog banned from digg?

Hey, I've been casually following your blog but didn't know you lived here in Toronto. Good stuff!

they're not colourful or textured or on a background or anything. If OCR software can't recognize black type (of a familiar typeface) on white, it must be pretty messed up.

I'm just saying it that making the user do this twice is just plain unusable and annoying.

WHY IS THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE?

reCAPTCHA has been around for ages. This isn't something new. Everyone knows about it. It's also widely implemented.

I would like to add however, I hate reCAPTCHA. If you are a web developer who has added reCaptcha to your site, remove it. If you are thinking about adding it in, don't do it! reCAPTCHA takes the annoying in a CAPTCHA and multiplies it by two. No longer are the days where you have to solve one illegible CAPTCHA, now you have to do two. Plus, one of them is so bad that OCR software couldn't recognize it.

It's not your or your users job to digitize books. You aren't doing the world some great justice or charity by implementing reCAPTCHA on your site. If you want to digitize books, go help develop better OCR software. If you want to stop spam, there are better, less invasive methods.

The fact that this has been upvoted to the front page concerns me greatly.