Monday, February 16, 2009
Ruby On Rails
Just a short one: Until today I tried to get to like Ruby On Rails, and among other (really nice) ideas, RoR tells you in its log files which calls/functions/syntax's are deprecated - and it also shows you a link to an official site listing all deprecated items to the current version. But the link was/is broken. I keep mentioning and advising that RoR seems too young (ie. too many minor and major revisions being pushed out at the moment). But finding that even a deprecation link seems deprecated didn't make me more confident.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Windows 7 IS indeed very cool
After installing every version of Vista, starting at PDC Beta 1, keeping up my hope for improvements, i was very sceptic. There it was, Microsoft's offer of downloading Windows 7 Beta 1. After some blog-researching and reading raving comments about Windows 7, i started to hesitate. I bought a new notebook harddrive, an external drive, none of which enabled me to do an easy backup to recover from a bad problem with Windows 7 (the installation seems non-revertable).
Finally, I was brave, installed Windows 7 on top of my Vista (which is used for Software Development of various kinds) and prayed... I knew, would my installation fail, i'd be left with a unusable partition to be installed with a fresh Vista Installation. And days of development work lost.
It took about four hours, migrated 360'000 settings (of any kind) and booted up nicely ! And: Ever since, I've enjoyed using Windows 7 ! It's responsive, it looks nice and consistent. All my settings, last used files and so on, all still here. And if you ever read the manual (yeah, sometimes even IT people do that) about the new (requiring some time to getting used to) task bar, you'll be impressed. Microsoft seems to have put every thought in assigning many sensible key-combinations with NICE window and task functions.
I didn't thing MS was able to perform so well. Unfortunate that this requires a real disaster like Vista, but good to see that MS can do it and indeed did it ! After .net, this is a MAJOR winner !
Finally, I was brave, installed Windows 7 on top of my Vista (which is used for Software Development of various kinds) and prayed... I knew, would my installation fail, i'd be left with a unusable partition to be installed with a fresh Vista Installation. And days of development work lost.
It took about four hours, migrated 360'000 settings (of any kind) and booted up nicely ! And: Ever since, I've enjoyed using Windows 7 ! It's responsive, it looks nice and consistent. All my settings, last used files and so on, all still here. And if you ever read the manual (yeah, sometimes even IT people do that) about the new (requiring some time to getting used to) task bar, you'll be impressed. Microsoft seems to have put every thought in assigning many sensible key-combinations with NICE window and task functions.
I didn't thing MS was able to perform so well. Unfortunate that this requires a real disaster like Vista, but good to see that MS can do it and indeed did it ! After .net, this is a MAJOR winner !
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