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Iconfactory relaunching
The Iconfactory is one of my favorite Mac sites on the web. Their sense of humor and talent really makes it something special. It looks like the iconic look (get it?) of the Iconfactory is in for an update. At the moment the Iconfactory homepage features a small vignette (the first in a series of 6 it would seem. Possibly to be spread out over 6 days?) entitled 'Workers at Iconfactory on Rails with Ruby.'My best guess is that the entire site will be redone with Ruby on Rails (shocking, I know) and will be buzzword compliant. I can hardly wait, and I know I'll be checking in over the next few days to see how the story develops.
Thanks, Mathew.
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Dan said 3:51PM on 7-24-2006
OK, TUAW. Seriously. The "slap the mosquito" annoying noisy ads have got to go, or I do. There are lots of other sources for Mac news. Yes, I could block them, but I generally just shun sites that use them, because they almost always suck anyway.
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Vin said 4:36PM on 7-24-2006
That was quite cute. Glad to see they are redesigning, although I really dug the current version of their site from a design standpoint.
I like how they lil figures travel around to the back of the warehouse and talk about the backend of the site. I guess coding in ASP is considered old hat?
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Ken R said 4:37PM on 7-24-2006
lol... that W3C guy rocks!
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someone said 4:39PM on 7-24-2006
well I develop apps in Ruby on Rails and to just say, its easy, pretty and powerful
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David said 6:09PM on 7-24-2006
Ruby on Rails in my opinion is underpowered cumbersome and completely lacking in every department. Can someone tell me in what way is it better than asp.net (.net the one thing Microsoft have got right!) - if you say AJAX then there are several frameworks available for .net.
I hate the fact that ever website written in RoR looks identical with the pastel shades etc etc...
Web 2.0, buzzwords - sites based around this make me want to scream!
I liked the little video but i seem to have missed where Ruby on Rails was referenced in the video?
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mark said 6:49PM on 7-24-2006
nice. Iconfactory is back.
now.. @Dan - I second that - take the mosquito add down!
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Scott McNulty said 7:36PM on 7-24-2006
I don't seem to able to get the mosquito ad, but when I see it I'll get it taken down.
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Dan said 1:01AM on 7-25-2006
The ads are almost certainly regional. I'm seeing enormous yellow Carmax ads right now. (Which I'm happy to view, since I enjoy TUAW) So, when my 126,000+ mile car finally goes the way of the dodo, I will probably buy at CarMax. As large and yellow as those ads are, they are 1 trillion times better than the local dealers' TV ads.
I will never, ever buy from one of those noisy or seizure inducing ads.
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Kim Kwan said 1:12AM on 7-25-2006
Scott, you're probably right about the one-clip-a-day idea.
If you've got QT Pro, right-click (for those with multi-button mice or the Mighty Mouse, or the prototype BT Mighty Mouse) or control-click (for those with one button mice) on the clip and select Save As QuickTime Movie.... The default name for the file says "Iconfactory-Day1-H264.mov"
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Lustigson said 3:43AM on 7-25-2006
That little movie was great. One of the IconFactory guys mooned the W3C dude. LOL
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Peter said 7:09AM on 7-25-2006
> Ruby on Rails in my opinion is underpowered cumbersome and completely
> lacking in every department. Can someone tell me in what way is it better than
> asp.net (.net the one thing Microsoft have got right!) - if you say AJAX then
> there are several frameworks available for .net.
It's not about AJAX, there are several reasons I find it better than ASP. My main reason is flexibility and speed of development, performance has never been an issue for me, so I don't get your "underpowered" statement.
I have programmed in ASP.NET, PHP, Java, Perl and Python, I love some aspects of every language, but Ruby as a language covers everything. Ever heard of blocks?
> I hate the fact that ever website written in RoR looks identical with the pastel
> shades etc etc...
So basically you believe design is tied to Ruby on Rails? That's like saying all Smarty powered sites have to look the same because they're using Smarty. There are quite a lot of non-Rails apps out there that use the same "pastel colors", it's a fashion thing, just like the fancy colorful sites of the past were.
> Web 2.0, buzzwords - sites based around this make me want to scream!
Well, there's the buzz and there's reality. It's a matter of taste for one and I like the way functionality prevails over fancy graphics just for the sake of it nowadays.
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