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Looking forward to 2009

kbullock — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:04:00 +0000

Third in the lists series.

Here are the tech things I’m looking forward to in 2009 (most related to Web development):

Watching Merb and Rails merge
Adoption of Python 3, even though Python still irks me
DataMapper 1.0
A Web framework that’s more of a library, less of a harness to plug things into†
Hearing more from Arc

†That is, I want to be able to run my application from the command line…

/home/webapps/myblog $ ./myblog.rb start

…or write a program that incorporates it…

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'myblog'
if __FILE__ == $0
  MyBlog::Controllers::Posts.do_stuff
end

…in the way of normal Ruby applications.

kbullock — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:02:00 +0000

Second in what’s now a series of “list” posts. First here.

Standard assumptions in the Rails community:

As before, add your own in the comments.

kbullock — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:09:00 +0000

First in what’s now a series of “list” posts. Next here.

Add others in comments. Preferrably with links to examples.