Tracks and Ruby on Rails
After sitting in my del.icio.us inbox for a couple of weeks, I finally found the time to start playing about with [Ruby on Rails](http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html). I’ve heard a lot of good things about Rails-based applications, and I’ve started using them heavily (notable [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/THRILLHO) and [43 things](http://www.43things.com/people/view/THRILLHO)). However, the real reason I wanted to [...]
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Poor Apple.
There wasn’t one thing mentioned at Macworld that wasn’t already revealed on the internet already. By way of ‘punishment’, Apple decided not to show the webcast live, but rather only offer it after a couple of hours. This is completely understandable, since there were a couple of major announcements which had been completely ruined by over-zealous fans who have now crossed the line into breaking the law to find out what the announcements would be ahead of time.
Having watched the Macworld speech, I’m fully convinced that Apple are one of the few technology companies in the world that “get it”. I remember someone describing Tim O’Reilly as a visionary, because since it takes 18 months to write and publish a book, he has to be constantly thinking “What will people want to read about in 18 months time?”. I think the same could be said of Apple - they are thinking ahead of time, to think “What will people want to be doing with their computers in 18 months?” rather than reacting to current fads.
