A Path Less Taken

Sometimes you just find something interesting in the published content world. Such is the case with the compellingly titled Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement. I haven’t read it yet, but I just might have to.

So I was reading about Discourse which is a Ruby based reboot of forum software and it occurred to me that I should install Ruby 2.0. Not for Discourse mind you, just so I could play with Ruby sands Rails now that Ruby’s not cool anymore.

One of the great things about Open Source tools is the wealth and variety of choices. It’s a blessing and a curse all at once. Here are some of my random thoughts on some PHP and JavaScript versus scenarios.

Thanks to kippt.com and more specifically WebOlymp’s jQuery Plugins list here are some more interesting jQuery plugins.

LESS CSS Preprocessor describes itself as “The dynamic stylesheet language”. Built on JavaScript this little parser can run on the client or server side. As a precursor to modifying my blog for the mobile web I’ve switched the main Stylesheet in an effort to determine if LESS is more when it comes to CSS.