SproutCore is slick; has a RoR + Apple pedigree & leverages Javascript very nicely. MobileMe integrates it. Apple contributes heavily to the project. Silverlight, AIR, and Google Gears compete. Silverlight and GG require browser plug-ins. Only GGs is open-source. Here's a good overview: http://rapidappsgroup.com/content/desktop-web-applications-using-sproutcore/
I'm at RailsConf.
Portland, Oregon is, well, Portland (overcast and wet). Got in late last night and walked over to Stanford's. The service was friendly, even at 10:30 PM. Everything about the burger was above average. And it came with hot, crispy, slightly salty fries. It was all devoured with sips of a local wheat bear that I forget the name of.
So far, having been away from Ruby and Rails for over a year, it feels like going back to a place you used to live. Some things are still the same. In other ways, I hardly recognize the place. New techniques like elastic computing (and plenty of competing commercial hosting options), new tools such as git, tarantula, and hobo, etc. Good stuff.
I'll pretend I blog and let you know how it all goes.
In this post and the two that follow, I highlight interesting talks at The Rails Edge, 2006. I do it for Google searching posterity and for my admittedly selfish desire to reinforce key concepts presented.
Nothing ground breaking in this post. I write it only because the existing documentation for this behavior is weak or nonexistent.
Have you ever seen the following message while testing your Rails app?
NameError: uninitialized constant ... blah, blah
Several people I know have asked me this recently. Without just pointing straight to Bruce Tate, here's what I've come up with.
<short_answer>
* Ruby is an order of magnitude more powerful and less bloated than Java
* Ruby has Rails and an explosion of new libraries being built with or for Ruby
* Ruby will make you look good to your customers by developing more efficiently, making you more money
* Ruby is hot
</short_answer>
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