Link Friday
Aug 11, 2006Links I’ve found interesting for the week of 08/07/2006:
- DHH gives a big happy birthday to Rails as it begins year three. I’m excited to see to what amazing things are done with this framework in the year to come.
- Apple previews Leopard, OS X 10.5. While I don’t think it is as exciting as Tiger was, I’m hoping they further manage to optimize the Intel build since the transition to x86 chips is complete.
- Ruby on Rails will ship with Leopard Server when it is released in Spring 2007. Think that has something to do with the love OS X has been getting from Rails developers?
- Copyblogger on why content is a dirty word. I completely agree that ad-sense blogs are a temporary thing. Write good content and the visitors will come. (I get a ton of google traffic from my Rails how to articles.)
- It’s been a busy news week for Rails. Rails 1.1.5 released as a result of a need to patch a serious security hole. Looks like it has to do with an attacker being able to upload code possibly and execute it by calling a certain route. I’m staying out of the full disclosure / non-disclosure debate. (Update: Rails 1.1.6 is out as the super final awesome “really, it’s secure.” patch.)
- Bruce Schneier covers the new security measures in the aftermath of the UK/US airline terrorist plan. Given that I need to fly at the end of the month I may just show up to the security checkpoint in nothing more than boxers and just fedex my luggage.