Brian Dennis at New Media Hack blogs about the lack of tools bloggers could use to analyze old posts and links.
Some very interesting things could be done by watching what is posted and then finding out what del.icio.us and Technorati have to say about it.
Dion blogs about Trails, a domain driven development framework. It's inspired by Rails.
Additional thoughts from DHH.
Paul Duncan has some Ruby bindings for del.icio.us, Rubilicious as well as Technorati ones.
I don't know if they work yet, but I found Ruby bindings for Rendezvous. Another fun thing to play with at home.
I'll have more to say about the Sox winning the World Series but here's a quick recap from around the Web.
Bill Simmons gives the play-by-play of his night watching the Sox.
Now the 1918 jokes are done. Now TV networks can't ruin our playoff games anymore. Now we can watch Red Sox games without waiting for the Other Shoe. Now we don't have to deal with manipulative books and documentaries, or hear about Buckner, Zimmer, Grady, Pesky, Torrez, Stanley and Schiraldi ever again. It's a clean slate. We're like those ugly contestants who show up on "The Swan," get fifty grand worth of plastic surgery, then start sobbing in front of a full-length mirror when they see themselves. That's every Red Sox fan right now.
The Bambino's Curse weblog is done.
My work here is done.
Beth puts together a helpful FAQ.
Do you feel that your identity has changed as a Bostonian, as a Red Sox fan, or as a viable human being?Yes. For the better.
Do you think you'll lose interest in your team now that you're no longer on this Quixotic campaign for a championship?
Didn't happen with the Patriots. If anything, I love those goofy bastards even more. Before it was like a little hard nugget of tortured love in my heart. Now it's molten and...I'm aborting this metaphor before it comes even more monstrous. I didn't sleep at all last night. Sorry.
Lucas Gonze was interviewed on Read/Write Web. Some good stuff to be found on the decentralization of taste.
Webjay decentralizes taste. This seemed to me to be the next frontier after decentralized network connectivity was fully colonized by the filesharing people, because the decentralization of network connectivity created more centralization of taste, not less.
Charles gives some numbers about a simple test between Java and Ruby, a 25Mb XML file. Perhaps surprisingly, the dom4j library did much better than its Ruby counterpart.
Ruby still looks like something I want to explore but it might not be ready for all things in the enterprise quite yet.
Russ takes Steve Jobs to task for his comments yesterday about how there isn't a need for video on devices like the iPod. I agree with Russ on this because I know personally I'd love to be able to store/watch content on mine.
Would I pay money for content? Sure, if it was what I wanted or if it was part of my Tivo service. I could also see me bringing home videos to my parents instead of figuring out the best way to connect the recorder to the TV.
Russ did bring up something which I honestly hadn't thought about though. The fact that Jobs might be trying to play nice with the movie studios because of Pixar as opposed to his 'rebel' view of ripping music songs.
James points out Jeremy's latest project, Grash.
"If everything in Unix is a file and everything in Java is an Object, wouldn't it be nice if you could explore your Objects in the JVM with the same powerful mechanisms you use in Unix."
It seems there is a new sheriff in town, Rails, written in Ruby, yet talked about by a growing number of people.
Dave Thomas and here's Dave talking about Ruby and Rails at Amazon.
The author of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, has a blog as well.
More Groovy fun with a look at the ease of putting together a Swing GUI with Groovy.
Lee Grey gives a great example of integrating Groovy and AppFuse together.
You can always find something interesting in the JavaBlogs feed.
It wasn't the prettiest game ever played but the Red Sox do have a 1-0 lead over the Cardinals and frankly, that's all that matters.
A view from Red Bird Nation gives some interesting thoughts and critiques. I don't agree with all of the points but it makes for good reading.
Growl is a notification system for OS X. It already seems to have plenty of apps that will send messages when anything happens. Plus it has Python, Perl and Java bindings.
On the Linux side, some code is being written to do something similar. Gnome-Notify is the start of an implementation of this spec. More thoughts can be found here.
Longhorn will supposedly have something along these same lines.
The call for papers for PyCon DC 2005 has been posted. As always, I feel like I should put something together but generally never do. Perhaps this time will be different.
I'd like to get something written which combines some of my recent interests, crypto, web apps and build systems. Of course, that's quite a range of things.
Even a crazier thought would be to get something which I could use for CodeCon.
And yeah, I know. We need to win the World Series to complete the dream. But you can win the World Series every year. You only have one chance to destroy the Yanks. As my friend Mike (a Tigers fan) wrote me last night, "Everyone outside of Yankee brats are celebrating quietly with you guys. It's like you killed Michael Myers, Jason, Freddie Kreueger and Hannibal Lecter in one night."
Edward Cossette of The Bambino's Curse looks for hope for the Red Sox in the example of the Bride in Kill Bill Vol 2.
I want to see some swordplay. I want to see the Sox eliminate the Yankees as if they were knee socked, chain swinging Go Go Yubari at the hands of the Bride wielding the Hanzo.
Danah cautions developers to not forget the Mac. If you need the geeks, freaks and academics, many will be using a Mac.
The call for papers has gone out. I'm hoping to attend this year since I don't think I can quite get anything I've been doing to a working state by the deadlines.
It seems the place to have been this week was the Web 2.0 Conference up in the Bay. So many things are coming out of it, it's tough to focus on just a few.
Russ gives a passionate overview of his time at the conference.
Kim Polese launches SpikeSource.
Rojo was launched as well.
Denise Howell, Marc Canter and Jeremy Zawodny blogged many sessions.