Hang on let me pause my Creative Labs Nomad and finish this call on my Palm Treo so I can respond to your comment; oh wait...
Just because something is first doesn't mean it is best. Limor took something cool and made it awesome, and you can be sure that in a generation or two someone else will take her work further.
I grew up hacking on Heathkits and reading Forrest Mimms books and just as Mimms did for me as a child, Adafruit's products turn a new generation on to the fun, creativity and power locked up in understanding electronics.
The fact of the matter is that DIY electronics was fading out by the 1990's in no small part due to the ever tightening noose of proprietary technology and planned obsolecense in consumer electronics. In this environment, Adafruit was able to make soldering sexy and fabrication fashionable; how could anyone find fault in that?
You mean Handspring Treo - yes I had one - a 180g...
No awesome here if you ask me. It is packaged in shiny and shipped out of the door.
Forrest Mimms books were crap to be honest. They were recipe books with very little practical use past stringing together hacks and full of all sorts of errors. Sort of a precursor to this.
I think you were brought up with the electronics assembly culture, not the electronics design culture. The two are very different.
It says that he goes on to continue his research once he is uploaded. So perhaps him being uploaded to the machine is distinct from him trying to create the first sentient computer.
He is trying to create a sentient machine before he dies and his uploaded self is continuing his research along those same lines.
We'll be taking this for a spin. I've been pushing for an API-driven site for awhile but the case for that model was cinched when we started adding non-web clients to our system.
A leaned-out Rails is a nice compliment to other bolt-on API options and fat GUI-based API builders. Personally I prefer to start with something even simpler, but the facts are you can cover more ground faster (and potentially safer) with something like this vs. building your HTTP stack from scratch.
The Hypermedia stuff is most exciting to me, as hand-rolling that is a hard-sell for many teams (if you have a system of any significant richness).
Me too. There's nothing concrete here yet, but there's lots of space to explore and good things to build. I really want us to be a leader in this space.
I'm very excited about this as well. Any hints about what's on the roadmap?
Would love to see easy versioning with custom mime types and link headers for pagination and associated resources. Maybe that doesn't belong in core... but it would still be pretty cool.
My testing shows that versionist works just fine with rails-api apps to provide versioning capabilities. If you run into any problems, please file an issue.
Nothing specific so far. AMS should know how to put out some kind of hypermedia-enabled type. We want to build a bunch of apps and then pull an implementation out, not imagine what we think would be good and then try to build apps with it.
Just because something is first doesn't mean it is best. Limor took something cool and made it awesome, and you can be sure that in a generation or two someone else will take her work further.
I grew up hacking on Heathkits and reading Forrest Mimms books and just as Mimms did for me as a child, Adafruit's products turn a new generation on to the fun, creativity and power locked up in understanding electronics.
The fact of the matter is that DIY electronics was fading out by the 1990's in no small part due to the ever tightening noose of proprietary technology and planned obsolecense in consumer electronics. In this environment, Adafruit was able to make soldering sexy and fabrication fashionable; how could anyone find fault in that?