Tips and Tutorials for Computer Users and Programmers

I took these photos of the inside of a laptop.

Photo of Inside of a Laptop

Photo of Inside of a Laptop

Resource 1

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/165618-Ruby-on-Rails-vs-ASPNET-Deathmatch/

What I Left With:

• Use the programming platform that is best for you at the time.

Resource 2

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/47655971c922b9e4?pli=1

What I Left With:

• Big project? Big budget? = ASP.net.
• Little project? Small budget? = Ruby on Rails.

Resource 3:

http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov

What I Left With:

• With Ruby on Rails, debugging is done in the command line. Want to see the value of a variable? You have to go to the command line and run a command on that variable nae. Wheras in ASP.net, using Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008, you can just hover the cursor over a variable and see its value. The former is preferred by me.
• The language format of Ruby on Rails seems ugly to me. I prefer the format of C#, Java, and JavaScript.

It is great that Google is entering the desktop Linux scene, but check out this comparison to see what is already available today.

I found out about Leigeber Web Development Blog tonight.  If you are a web developer, you might want to check out some of the goodies that are presented such as:

• Popup box
• Accordion
• Sortable table
• Drop-down menu

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