On the rails-core maililng list, Josh Susser dropped the term “syntactic vinegar” to mean the opposite of syntactic sugar: Deliberately making the s…Read more

My friend Nikolaj Nyholm, of O’Reilly fame, is looking for a lead web services engineer for a fascinating face recognition startup he’s involved in.…Read more

I was still stuck in the web 1.0 world of Expedia, but thankfully Nikolaj Nyholm recently fixed that by pointing me to Kayak.com, which is so much m…Read more

Am I the only one who finds the upcoming.org user experience frustrating? More than anything else., what I want is to subscribe to an RSS feed of ev…Read more

I missed out on the real RailsConf, so now I’m considering going to the Europe one, except it seems nothing’s happening: There’s no buzz, there’s no…Read more

Quicksilver triggers are God’s gift to mankind. They let you create global triggers for any action Quicksilver can describe. I always work on a han…Read more

It took me a bit to figure out how to use the formatted_XXX_url named URLs that the SimplyRESTful plugin generates for you. It’s not hard, it’s just…Read more

Derek Gottfrid, who used to work on search for NYT, just launched FUTEF, a search engine for Wikipedia content. It’s looking nice, doing some facete…Read more

A few hours ago, Christina Wodtke published an awesome article on how Strunk and White applies to design over on Boxes and Arrows. And now Matt Lin…Read more