November 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 [read more...]
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 [read more...]


