Truth Seeking Through Games Making

FireFox2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0 are both out.

Iris wrote some interesting things about game characters in her blog.

Some other interesting Podcasts if you are into web 2.0 development.

• Ruby on Rails Podcast – especially the interview with Glenn, Vanderburg.
• Ajaxian Podcast- especially the interview with Glenn Vanderburg

or into technology entrepreneurship:

• Venture Voice

… is GREAT. It is fun. It is the best way to write a web application. Get it here now! Ruby is a pure object oriented programming language that uses meta-programming (use programs to write programs)

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a web framework built on Ruby that uses a modified version of the Model-View-Controller design pattern which every good programmer must know and use for User-Interfaced based applications – like a website and a game.

It includes a web server but you can also run it on Apache and IIS with some changes. I think it is not necessary to do that until you want to deploy.

If you use Windows and want to try RoR:

1. Download the Ruby for Windows Installer.
2. When you have installed it, start the command prompt and type: gem install rails –include-dependencies
3. To use MySQL with RoR, download the MySQL/Ruby driver instead of using the built in gem -install (assuming you already have MySQL server installed).

If you want a PHP framework that is based on the design of RoR check out Code Igniter. But seriously, you should take a look of RoR, it is sexy.

The Wikipedia article on RoR is a good introduction.

Check out BaseCamp and CampFire, which is done by 37 Signals – a pioneer in the concept of web 2.0 and AJAX.