2009
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Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is this Facebook cofounder’s enterprise spinoff still coming?
Today’s announcment of Salesforce “Chatter” as a SaaSy enterprise Facebook product adds another option to the red-hot market for enterprise social platforms modeled on Facebook. Regular readers will remember that I called out ”Internal Facebooks” as the #1 collaboration trend for 2009 in a post last month.
We’re still waiting to hear from Asana, the business collaboration [...]
Formatting as code: Haml versus embedded Ruby
Digging deeper into Rails programming styles
The last Sharing at Work post showed how to set up a Rails development environment using a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine. This week, I’m in the midst of developing my first ground-up public-facing web application using Ruby on Rails.
Learning a new way to dynamically generate HTML
My Rails development has already been [...]
Get started building web apps with your own Ruby on Rails virtual development server
Today we’re going to take a detour into web programming using Ruby on Rails. The hardest part for me has been getting the development environment up and running. Some guides will walk you through setting up Ruby and then Rails directly on your Windows machine, but I abandoned that pretty quickly. You’ll soon grow tired [...]
Found: “What problems does Google Wave Solve?”
I‘ve not really had much to say about Google Wave yet aside from my initial roundup of Wave articles. So far it looks like early adopters are disappointed and collaboration enthusiasts are still optimistic. Early adopter tech blogger Louis Gray shared a really interesting post on the topic by Daniel Tenner that you really ought to [...]
