Since we’re 2.0-ing everything that comes out a bit different than the usual, welcome Wiki 2.0! It’s a product called WetPaint that apparently hosts your wiki on their server and is going to run advertisements on the pages.
The interface seems real nice and easy and there’s a tour to show you around. I’ll take some time to explore it more soon. This is a reminder post. Just can’t figure out what to build a Wiki about though. Any ideas?
Tip by TechCrunch.
Since I started reading about web applications, next generation web, Web 2.0 or whatever you want to call it, I’ve been itching to get my hands dirty, go on and do something myself.
(When I say “do something” I mean getting a hang of the technological aspects involved in its implementation because, although the rest of the concept – social software, writeable web and all – interests me greatly, I’m sure not up for starting something up right now)
Bad thing is, I have no talent for design and my coding skills stop at some basic-level college C. And as I haven’t really decided to become a full-blown web developer all of a sudden, I think diving into HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML and all that would be a little too much to learn just to start playing around.
Then Ruby came to mind.
From what I’ve heard, Ruby is at once a great language for system administration – like Perl – and has that nifty Ruby on Rails framework for developing web software. And since I’m a loving Linux user and might get a kick out of getting a bit more into the server admin business, writing scripts and all, I thought I might get a good start at both (server admin and web dev) by learning Ruby.
That’s when I found this great, wacky and surprisingly fun tutorial: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.
Ok, if you already know the basics of any other programming languages some things might feel a bit patronizing. And if you’re in a rush to learn it all very quick you’ll find it a bit dragging and miss the fun. But it’s sure a very entertaining read, it’s free (as in beer and speech), and besides giving you a good laugh (with cartoon foxes), it also actually teaches you the language.
Logahead is a new install-on-your-own-server blogging tool I’ve come across. The last one was WordPress, and out of my desire to learn more about it and the good first impression it had on me, this blog was born. Of course I’m not going to switch now, but I’m sure going to give Logahead a go.
Logahead seems to go more in the way of simplicity, probably being not as configurable as WordPress, but still full of nice features, “fully buzzword compatible (AJAX, RSS, Web 2.0 – it’s all there)” and really easy to use.
Most impressive: all done by one 17-year-old.
(through eHub)
Since I first began reading stuff on Web2.0 a few weeks ago (it all started with John Battelle’s Searchblog), I have been so flooded by so many names of ever-popping startups or “already” beta web applications pointed to by the handful of TechCrunches, Web 2.0 Blogs and other big shot bloggers out there that it’s been really hard to keep up with all of them.
I find myself frequently going back to a site a good five or six times before I finally stop asking myself at each post I read “what the heck was that just-mentioned site all about again??”
This constant re-checking of links takes a considerable amount of time off my feed reading, which has, by the way, become increasingly difficult to do with Google Reader. But that’s another topic.
