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Some friends recently reminded me that my blog has been down for almost 2 months. So I’ve managed to spend some time to bring the site back up in Typo 5. It kind of goes without saying that deploying rails apps on shared hosts sucks and I can stand behind that. But that’s OK – right tool for the right job.

In the last two months there’s been a lot written about Ruby. There’s been some bad press (zed and friends) and a lot of good press (Rails Machine, Rails 2, Ruby 1.9). Some crying fowl about Rails not being enterprise ready, the community sucking, it’s hard to deploy or whatever else. Who cares! Most of the complaints and accusations I’ve read are from people that need to point the finger in the mirror.

While my site was down a lot changed. Anyone keeping track of me (yeah lots of you I’m sure) knows my startup was a non-starter and I spent 2 long dreadful PHP filled months at a search marketing company and have since moved on to more reputable endeavors with a Connecticut firm building Rails based entertainment apps. I’m working with a team of experienced producers and engineers and I couldn’t be happier. So you can expect some new Ruby and Rails tidbits here again soon.

One last thing to mention before I sign-off…if you read my post mentioning PHP’s lack of late static binding PHP and ActiveRecord you can rejoice or cringe depending on your perspective because the team is adding the static:: runtime resolution that will get PHP that life extending kidney implant that it so desperately needs. This new feature will allow Zend and friends to build a pragmatic Active Record in PHP. I’ve bolded this because a friend of mine said they are fixing the problem but it’s not a fix – it’s no doubt a feature request from Zend that was originally slated for PHP6. Given the slow adoption rate of PHP5 I’m sure the team decided to add almost all the new goodies originally slated for PHP6 to PHP5.3 in an effort to keep up. With all the new (untested) features I’m sure sysadmins will be rushing to deploy this new version.