Monthly Archives: January 2008

Brief Reality Check on Ruby Jobs

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 27, 2008

I’m working on a post about Ruby on Rails and its current hip-to-hate condition spawned by Zed Shaw’s flaming rejection of Rails. I couldn’t wait to post this little tidbit, though: So, the Ruby community is all excited because of this post, and the following graph showing the incredible growth of Ruby jobs versus Java: [...]

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Rounded Corners

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 26, 2008

Does anyone know of a border-rounding solution that doesn’t suck? curvyCorners looks great in Firefox, but tears badly in IE 7 in any case other than their demo. Nifty Corners Cube doesn’t seem to do anything at all, although I can see that it put all kinds of stuff into my DOM via FireBug.

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What good is a CS degree?

By Brian Hurt | Published: January 21, 2008

There’s been a lot of nattering about the usefulness, or lack thereof, of a college-level CS degree to a programmer. The most recent of which to cross my transom, is this post, but I think it all started with a post by Joel. The problem with this debate is that it presupposes three things, all [...]

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It Had To Happen Sometime…

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 18, 2008

I’m Dead! At least I got an obit in the NYT. In all seriousness — for some reason, this really upsets me. (See this post for other posts on my Googleganger, including links to the “In the Loop” radio program I’m in.)

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On My “Stuff I Never Expected from MPR” Short List

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 17, 2008

Highlights from In The Loop‘s homage to the Flip Flop: Save “In the Loop”!

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