This is definitely a milestone moment.
The ever popular and progressive Ruby on Rails, has hit version 1.0. I have dabbled with RoR in the past, but usually ran into version inconsistencies that made development difficult. Hopefully this will give everyone a nice clean place to start. This is really exciting news for the entire Rails community,and for fledgling Rails developers like myself.
So, the word is out, and Seth Godins‘ latest project, Squidoo, is slightly open to the public. Those of us who were closed beta testers were given the go ahead to share our Squidoo Lenses with friends and family.
For those who don’t know, Squidoo, is a site that enhances the search engine ideology. It does this by allowing people to publish information/links and articles(Lenses) on subjects that a person(LensMaster) may have experience/expertise in.
The concept allows these self proclaimed experts to provide tightly filtered and relevant information on a topic, without all of the cruft that comes along with a normal search engine. The whole project abounds with the hottest buzzwords of the day,ie. longtail,web 2.0, ajax,etc.
So I decided to do a lense about the Python programming language, and it’s use on Windows. So without any further ado, the link to my Squidoo lense.
http://www.squidoo.com/python_on_windows/
I am currently ranked 1,777 , –so if you believe my lense has some valuable content, go ahead and rate it.
Ever wonder where the World Wide Web started? Check out the link below to see the first web page ever published. Tim Berners Lee wrote this in April of 1992 while at CERN. Wikipedia points to another page as the first ever, but the modified times show that the link below may be earlier.
It is really interesting to see the humble beginnings of hypertext, and to note how far it has come in 13+ years. Some might argue that it is also interesting to see how close we still are to the original roots of web browsing.
Also, check this pic of the first ever web server. Doesn’t seem to look much worse than the box I have running this web site.
