Atchoum – A static website framework

Introducing the most easy to deploy framework!

Markaby + Builtin WEBrick server for debuging + HTML file dumper for deploying = Atchoum
gem install atchoum –source http://code.macournoyer.com

DevTeach : The .NET place to be

Just came back from DevTeach day 2. Wow! So much great speakers. A year ago, I would never had tough that Montreal was a place for such a great event. I’m pretty proud to’ve been a part of it.
Now! Enough for the flattering.
First I attended Claudio Lassada’s Tips & Tricks to boost up productivity session. [...]

Build your own internet home yourself with WEBrick

I’ve been playing with WEBrick yesterday night and found it pretty easy to use. Here are a couple of my discoveries.
First, you don’t need to download any gem, webrick is part of ruby core! How cool is that ?
To start a new http server:

require ‘webrick’
s = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(
ort [...]

No more excuses not to try ruby

If you tought:

I don’t wanna try ruby, it’s too hard to install, too long to download and it makes my feet smell like Oka cheese.

Better find another thing to complain about, with raggi’s Ruby for Windows in Under 700 bytes (and executable!).
Drop this in a batch file and run to get an interactive ruby interpreter:

@echo [...]

Better late then ever : joining twitter

While I was eating today, someone came by and stole my delicious Pad Thai. He swore I wouldn’t have it back unless I join Twitter…
Well, I was ungry!
You can add me as a friend in the name of all the Pad Thai supporters that didn’t had as much chance as I had!

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John C. Dvorak said something pretty interested in the last This Week in Tech podcast about the whole controversial DRM key.

They [lawyers] popularized this. Mp3 would still be underground if it wasn’t for all these lawsuits.

-around 17:24
Who can use this key anyway ? Hey, we are geeks, we are techy and I don’t know how [...]

Don’t start coding with games

It’s rare to come accross a serious _why post theres days, but with the recent launch of his Hackety Hack IDE for kids came this toughtful post about why teaching kids programming with games is wrong.
Also, here’s a cool video about the new web 2.0:

(via TS)
TheFunded, controversy in the VC world:

(via [...]

Microsoft + Yahoo > Google ?

Everyone should have heard this by now, Microsoft and Yahoo are talking-talking. Every article I red about that said this would help them take down Google.
But if two ok painters combine their talent, could they ever end-up with a Starry Night Over the Rhône ?
If Mc Donald’s and Burger King merged, could they make remarkable [...]

Great Castle Windsor articles

Alex of Bitter Coder got some great articles about Castle Windsor container project.
Here’s the last one about Startable Facility or if you’re new to this great tool start with Part I – Simple configuration.
Nice work Alex, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Finally some good moves from MS

Some Microsoft insiders recently announced the upcoming release of a Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) built on top of CLR.
I’m a little confused by the Silverlight project web site, on the front page you can read:

Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.

But browsing [...]