Why the lucky stiff, who brought us the fabuolous "Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby", just released this new awesome web application: Try Ruby Try Ruby is a web based, interactive Ruby tutorial, sort of like IRB on steroids. If you are curious about the kinds of things newbies and script kiddies are trying out in the console, check out Why's recent blog post....

Firefox 1.5 has been released. You can grab it here. Some of the new features are improved popup blocking (I am curious about this one, now that some sites have figured out how to circumvent the previous version's popup blocker), drag & drop tab reordering, noticeably faster navigation using the Back and Forward buttons, and more....

I just had a chance to catch up with the tech news from the past week or so, and I almost couldn't believe what I read about Sony's trojan-horse rootkit that was shipped on over 50 CD albums. Apparently this malware searches your computer for illegally downloaded music and reports this to Sony....

The Rails based Typo blog engine has been gaining a lot of traction lately, and I'm seriously considering switching from WordPress. Don't get me wrong - I love WordPress. It is a very solid and full featured blog engine that has never let me down. But I can't deny that there's a certain attraction to running a Rails based blog....

Over the past 5 years or so, the hype around web services has grown continuously. At the same time, the complexity of the relevant specifications has steadily increased. Just think of all the buzzwords like SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, etc....