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New dedicated Trac server on the way

almost 6 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
Our current web and mail server has been buckling under the load of the recent frenzy. Especially Trac and mailman is taking it to its knees. So we’re...

Recent Rails job postings from the Job Board

almost 6 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
We’re going to start posting a summary of recent Rails job postings from the 37signals Job Board every few weeks. All of these positions are for Rails...

Streamlined: Taking admins beyond scaffolding

almost 6 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
Justin Gehtland and Stuart Halloway has been moving along at a rapid pace on Streamlined since its unveiling at RailsConf in June. There’s now a public...

Trac and SVN gets new powerful machine

almost 6 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
After an extended period of troublesome Trac times, we’ve finally addressed the problem once and for all. Courtesy of TextDrive, we now have a new mega-powerful...

Power Flash and Flex from Rails

over 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
Jon Shumate introduces WebORB: WebORB for Rails is server-side technology enabling connectivity between Flex and Flash Remoting clients and Ruby on Rails...

Learn Rails in college

over 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
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Was Joel's Wasabi a joke? (Update: Nope!)

over 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
It seems quite a lot of people assume that Joel's Wasabi language was or is a joke. I sure hope so too, but I really don't think it is. If I had just read...

Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky

over 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
Joel Spolsky is a good writer. I've thoroughly enjoyed many of his pieces. Language Wars is not one of them. Actually, let me recant that. It's not entirely...

Allan wins Apple Design Award for TextMate

almost 6 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
Congratulations to my fellow Dane and good friend Allan Odgaard. TextMate snapped up the Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X Developer Tool. What a fantastic...

Rails steps into year three

almost 6 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking. [Linked from: Robby on Rails, jlaine.net - Home, chrisdo.org, jlaine.net - Home]
One of my guilty pleasures is proving people wrong. Few things get me more fired up to achieve than hearing how inappropriate or idealistic or unrealistic...