It’s such a good idea that it’s strange nobody thought of it sooner. Create a site where all the geeks in the land can host their code and easily work on one another’s projects. Make it one-click to send patches to anyone. Free for open source apps; paid for closed source. Profit!
Imagine this prediction twenty years ago: “in 2008, the world’s richest people are Russian, and the US has nationalised its largest private banks”. People would have laughed so hard.
When a framework is coming of age, it gains some, errr, documentation. Sweet.
Interesting commit to Edge Rails yesterday, bringing built-in url slug generation. I’m not too impressed by the algorithm though: it leaves out all non-ASCII characters. We can do so much better now.
Just a short while ago the website of Radio 1 was re-relaunched. You might recall that it was in fact relaunched at end of summer already. But that was just the initial migration from their legacy CMS to Ruby on Rails. In this latest re-relaunch I added a sweet amount of functionality.