intertwingly

Norman Walsh: Considering that I started knowing nothing about Ruby, essentially nothing about SQL, and with only the most meager experience with any sort of framework at all, the fact that I got from zero to working prototype in half a day, give or take, strikes me as pretty remarkable. (I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that I still know almost nothing about Ruby even after successfully building a working “application”. :-)

I’ll say that’s a good thing.  My son (who doesn’t share my interest in computers or programming) wrote a Ruby on Rails application for his Senior project.  When he needed help, I pointed him to Google.  I still don’t think he knows much about writing applications, but he got the job done.

This is often called Progressive Disclosure.

In Rails, helpers provide the equivalent of taglibs for cases where you outgrow templates.

And, I’m still learning new things about Ruby.  In each case, it is a matter of “Oh?  Of course!”.

Joe Gregorio: APP, OpenSearch and Microformats. Get used to seeing them; those small pieces loosely joined are the future of web services

Joe’s referring to the Lucene Web Service API.

Sean McGrath: I’ve cleaned out the blogroll on my blog home page pretty dramatically. I’m now just using it for pointing to various ways of contacting me rather than linking to blogs that I read/recommend.  The main reason is that the blogroll isn’t a true reflection of the blogs I read these days. That would be by bloglines OPML file, not my blogroll.

Why not simply point to your BlogLines subscriptions?  That’s how I do it on my weblog.  It is even functional - people can click on feeds and then click on subscribe if they like what they see.  And if they scroll down, there is even a link for exporting the subscriptions.

“Small Pieces, Loosely Joined”