May 27th, 2005
God, are you listening? Umm, sure you are.
Dear God,
I love Ruby, as you know. I love Rails, but I want an insanely awesome reference. You surely know that Agile Web Development with Rails has kinda released? Now I don’t know if it’s insanely awesome or not, but all Rubyists are insanely awesome, as you must surely know, so I’ll take a chance.
But, God, you know that $48 is kinda too much, don’t you? God, can you magically send me a copy? Or perhaps ask a Good Angel to send it to me?
Also, God, I’ll save you the trouble of listening to another prayer: you might want to send Gavri a copy too. He’s a nice guy, you see, and loves Ruby.
Thank you,
An Ardent Devotee
No Conventions? You Suck.
The Mozilla folks seem to have the following convention: any abbreviation that begins with an ‘X’ shall have all its letters capitalized. However, abbreviations beginning with any other letter shall have only the first letter capitalized. That’s how we have XMLHttpRequest, I must guess.
The Greasemonkey folks were kinda smart: they decided that conventional wisdom has it that everybody treats xmlhttp as one awesome word—and so they have GM_xmlhttpRequest, I must guess.
If my guesses are wrong, maybe people just don’t care.
My wisdom says XmlHttpRequest. Are you wise?
