Q.I. Productions – a wombat, the sink, and how it got there

[From Coding Horror: You're Doing It Wrong]
Jeff Atwood talks about templating engines (for generating html) being wrong… and I agree, with code like this:

<%foreach (var User in Users) { %>
<div class=”action-time”><%= ActionSpan(User)%></div>
<% if (User.IsAnonymous) { %>
<div class=”gravatar32″><%= RenderGravatar(User)%></div>
<div class=”details”><%= RepSpan(User)%><br/><%= Flair(User)%></div>
<% } else { %>
<div class=”anon”>anonymous</div>
<% } %>
<% } %>

But, and I might be biased [...]

Getting Started With WebObjects
WebObjects has a supportive and active user community.
It’s great to see this little site for the WebObjects community. Big thanks is due to David LeBer for getting that up there.
If you’re starting out with WO, or looking to, or looking into it, this is a great place to start.

Web – Use the Ruby on Rails Alternative:
Ruby on Rails is simpler than J2EE for developing MVC Web applications.
Ugh. If good old Deepak Vohra had used WebObjects maybe he’d have written this article differently. Oh well.
Rails is nice and all, but having done a bit more in depth with it, and done my share of [...]

This is my second (or maybe third) time starting off on Agile Web Development with Rails—Second Edition. Yeah, it’s for work.
From reading through scads of Rails and Ruby code I feel I have an appreciation of the language and framework, for the most part. I still miss WebObjects, a lot, when I have to cobble [...]

I’ve got to say, it’s nice to see the level of traffic on the webobjects-dev list lately.
Hopefully the latest developments (soon to be released publically) will lead to some interesting efforts by the community.
Cafe Press is even getting some new WO blood.
And the pre-WWDC-inspired shirts from the mailing list:

WO iTMS
WO EyeChart
WO Not [...]