Just a few links
I have been very busy in the last few weeks. Between school and work, I didn’t get to have much time to write here. Anyway, I collected a few links I cam across recently. A few days ago, Chris Shiflett posted an entry about ruby on rails. The entire thing is worth reading. It really is a different view made on the new buzz word. The point is that Rails is closer to J2EE than PHP, because of the structured approach. I wanted to try Rails, but I really don’t have time to try things out and honestly, I don’t really see anything Rails can do that I can’t do with PHP in an efficient way. The only thing that really takes a while to develop is the HTML part, and that’s something that has to be done in Rails too (except that they always skip that part in the demos). I always found it fancy to see the things they do with AJAX, but I’ve used the HTML_AJAX library from the PEAR repository, and it’s simple enough to use. All you need to make it as fancy is use their JavaScript library for the fancy effects and transitions. Fancy transitions are nice, but they don’t really add anything to the value of the application unless you are aiming for mass market.
I found a nice article on how memory is managed in Linux. It’s simply one of those informative articles. The conclusion is quite simple: since most applications use a lot of shared libraries in KDE and Gnome, it’s better to stick to one application suite. Most complain that KDE applications use too much memory, but when used together, it’s really not that bad. Still on the topic of KDE, I found an application called Kuroo, which is simply a GUI for Gentoo Portage. There is still quite a lot of work to be made in it to become mainstream, but it’s a good start. It’s quite easy to update packages and navigate the packages in portage.