Cool. How many lines of Javascript code? Cheers, Nick On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:38:09 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson <david / loudthinking.com> wrote: > > We want _everyone_ to be talking about the Ruby track this year. :) > > I just submitted my proposal for a 3-hour tutorial with Ruby on Rails. > I'll do my very best to hype the living daylights out of it as we get > closer :) > > Speaking of hype, 37signals just launched Ta-da List. 579 lines of Ruby > on Rails powering free shareable todo lists. Close to 4,000 people have > signed up in the first 36 hours and more than 25,000 items are already > being tracked. > > Ta-da List: > http://www.tadalist.com > > Behind the tech: > > http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/01/19/make-your-ta-da-list- > today/ > > So "Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity", it's been my > experience that doing cool applications that people like to use is the > best way of doing that. People always want to know what something is > made of when they like it. > > Between now and August, that's certainly the prime strategy I intend to > employ to draw attention to the Ruby track at OSCON. Companies and > individuals launching enterprise and hobby projects using Ruby on Rails > left and right. > > There's quite a long list of announcements in the pipeline on this > front. But I'm sure it won't go off quiet when they're ready to roll. > -- > David Heinemeier Hansson, > http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management > http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby > http://macromates.com/ -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X) > http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain > > -- Nicholas Van Weerdenburg