Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger™ 2.0 RC 1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition released. Now supports Rack and WSGI (yes, Python) too. Thijs (edit) ¶

Google AJAX Search API Blog: Speed up access to your favorite frameworks via the AJAX Libraries API. Interesting. Thijs (edit) ¶

Mark Bernstein: Implementation Patterns “[...] the key change is that people mastered a new style of programming. It’s not just object-oriented programming; it’s small methods on small objects.” Thijs (edit) ¶

Call Me Fishmeal: Transitions and Epiphanies.. “The important thing here is, I was just too married to part of the code. I was so into using CoreData’s magic undo that I kept going farther and farther to make it work, when I really needed to say, ‘Ok, this doesn’t work in this situation, I’m doing my own undo in 40 lines of code.’”
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Worse Than Failure: The Mythical Business Layer. “With simple, consistent code, change analysis is a breeze. A simple trace through the layers of code with a text-search tool will generally reveal exactly what needs to be changed, and where. A solid test plan will identify what changes broke the system and how, and allow developers to respond appropriately. No, it’s not fun and not challenging. It’s just good software.” Thijs (edit) ¶