Slides of out Rails usergroup Hamburg talk about Redis
» Posted on 11 Aug 2010I know it’s been a month now, but here are the Slides of our (that’s Mark Schmidt and me) Talk about Redis at the Rails Usergroup Hamburg. In the worldcup prediction game section, I added the numbers for MySQL with and index, and those numbers are not anywhere as dramatic as the presented ones (see slide 104). But still, Redis wins :)
You will see that the presentation is actually a website. It was done using ShowOff and works best in fullscreen capable browsers like Google Chrome. The source code of the presentation can also be inspected on Github.
Slides of my Rails usergroup Hamburg talk about Heroku
» Posted on 20 Apr 2010Better late than never, here are the slides of my talk at the last Rails usergroup Hamburg about heroku.
Developing for the iPhone vs. developing for the web
» Posted on 11 Apr 2010As you may know, I sincerely enjoy developing stuff for the web. But I also enjoy using native applications on my iPhone, so learning iPhone development has been on my todo list for a long time. Today, I stroke the item off the list, without having learnt anything about it. It’s just not interesting to me any more.
In order to explain my reasons, I have assembled a list that compares the possibilities of native iPhone development using Objective-C with web development.
| iPhone | web | |
|---|---|---|
| Apps can be used by other mobile operating systems? | no | yes |
| Familiar web technologies like HTML and JavaScript can be reused? | no | yes |
| Apps can be updated whenever you want/need to? | no | yes |
| You can use new technologies like NoSQL and node.js? | no | yes |
| Apps have to go through some stupid review process? | yes | no |
| Available features and languages are defined by some kind of control freak? | yes | no |
| Apps that compete with Apple software will be banned? | yes | no |
| You have to submit a final app (costing time and money) to find out whether your app will be accepted? | yes | no |
Just counting the yes and nos, there is no clear winner. Of course, this list is 100% objective and complete. If you have anything to add, against all expectations and common sense, please leave a comment.
Update: This blog post by 37signals sums up my feelings about Apple pretty well.
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