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Where’s the SXSW2007 wrap-up?

I apologize.

I was thinking about reviewing movies, and then I decided I would make a cool scorecard in CSS for them on some rounded corner squares, and then I wound up reading about how to do rounded corners, and then I wound up testing the corners and getting stupid fricking Internet exploder to do it right, and then I shaved a yak…

I’m working on a post about my favorite topics: GRIDS and what I’ve done with that information afterwards.

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2 Responses to “Where’s the SXSW2007 wrap-up?”

  1. proj Says:
    March 28th, 2007 at 2:16 am

    I’ve been shaving a lot of yaks at work lately. In other news I feel the need to get my site running on ruby and actually control the underlying implementation. I was trying to get that tag cloud stuff working and I’ve found myself lost in a sea of wp plugins, copy pasted douchebaggery and php. Do you know of a ruby frontend for the wp schema?

  2. steven Says:
    March 29th, 2007 at 12:29 am

    Proj,

    Wish I did. It seems sort of galling to me that every freaking Rails demo out there is ‘build a simple blog engine’ but no one has taken it to the the end of the road. ERB and RJS beat the everliving hell out of PHP, the RJS + Scriptaculous screen magic beats the hell out of PHP / Pear, etc.

    I think that the argument for PHP , and thus for wordpress, is that PHP ( esp. with mod_php) is fast. Rails, by way of comparison is slow and memory hoggish ( gotten better with the Mongrel or Lighttpd daemons).

    I think that slow factor’s gotta be dealt with before you see a blog engine running on Rails. It’s really only people like you and i who host or who have dedicated hosting who can say “why not run rails?”

    sgh

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