Rant Said Zed: I’m Too Sexy for My Rails

by Joey deVilla on January 6, 2008

Fred Fairbrass and Zed Shaw, side by side. The resemblance is uncanny!
The resemblance is uncanny, isn’t it?

By now, most Rails developers — and even a number of people who couldn’t care less about Rails — have read Zed Shaw’s infamous rant titled Rails is a Ghetto. It’s given me a lot to think about, and as a result, I’m changing my presentation topic at Tuesday’s TSOT Ruby/Rails Project Night to Rant Said Zed: I’m Too Sexy for my Rails (or: Lessons and Challenges from Zed Shaw’s Rant). I promise that it’ll be both informing and entertaining.

  • Want to know more about Tuesday’s TSOT Ruby/Rails Project Night, which takes place this Tuesday, January 8th? See this entry.
  • Want to sign up? Email me!

Aside: A Quick Trip Down Memory Lane

How can I reference Right Said Fred without showing you the video for their one hit?

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Whirlpool’s Fridge has Docks for Tablet Computers, iPods and Digital Photo Frames

by Joey deVilla on January 6, 2008

Gizmodo reports: “Whirlpool’s latest tech for their refrigerator line is based on their ‘centralpark’ feature, which is a essentially dock that lets you plug in a bunch of different gadgets into the big gadget that holds your food.” Such gadgets include digital photo frames, tablet computers and the Brandmotion iPod speaker system.

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Amit Agarwal’s Techmeme Time-Lapse Video

by Joey deVilla on January 6, 2008

50 hours of Techmeme in 50 seconds: Amit Agarwal created a video made up of screenshots of the Techmeme front page taken every of 5 minutes from midnight January 3rd to 2:00 a.m., January 5th. It’s interesting to see how the page changes as stories — and stories that comment on those stories — appear.

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