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Now THAT is a hard to implement/never used feature…

There’s no surprise most blogs out there (specifically the IT ones) exist basically to fulfill on a handful of very specific ‘agendas’:

- There are the aggregator blogs, which basically works as an echo chamber, adding one piece of though here and there (that’s usually rare). Admittedly, this is mostly what’s done on this blog - which in my point of view is more and more a huge waste of time since there are so many aggregators already out there, specially designed with that in mind (Google Reader’s ‘Share this’ feature being my favorite, hands down!)

- Then there are the hateblogs and FUDblogs. Ah, infamous guys and obscure girls that are so decided on showing their love for all things under the sun with cursing, swearing and trying to grab attention by generating noise - and nothing else (ok, maybe a little something in some infamous cases… But definitely not on their blogs :-)). Actually I guess I would do a very good job on that sense due to my tendency for sarcasm and all. Maybe get some additional Adsense revenue stream just for criticizing everything and everybody! You know: “Windows sux, this is the year of Linux”, “10 reasons why Java is dead”, “Why Cobol is the only real programming language”, etc, etc. Pointless.

- The third most common type of blog out there (and probably the one that is growing the most, if you ask a ‘SEO expert’ - what kind of weird career is that anyway?) is the egoblog: presenting one or two bits of useful stuff and A FREAKIN’ HUGE bias to self propaganda, the main objective on egoblogs is to sell yourself out. You know, get famous and stuff. I consider networking and self-promotion really important and all, but frankly, having to be the sole advertiser of yourself just feel so sad and desperate I can’t help but feel a bit ashamed for the egobloggers out there (not that they NEED my condolences, since some actually do pretty well by saying how great they are over and over again). My ego is not big enough to dig that, and (thankfully) I never needed to feed it with self-indugence anyway. Everything Zen!

I’d finalize my poor man’s categorization of the blogosphere with the real useful ones, usually maintained by people that are deeply involved on neat projects/sites, write useful stuff and are not impaired by some sort of NDA that would hinder them from publishing their discovers. Those are the blogs to follow, in my humble little opinion. And they are VERY rare.

Yeah, yeah - there’s always the ‘write to yourself’ blog (you know: you discover something interesting, blog about it, yada yada, let some friends know). That’ll probably keep poppin’ up around here from time to time.

Update: Just after publishing this I found this Wired article that goes way beyond all that I think about blogging and kinda proclames blogging to be “dead”. Ahh, FUDmagazines…

Or it might happen that I’m just not relevant enough. Yay!

Criticism, suggestions and beers are welcome!

osascript -e 'say "oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to work to work its because i hate my job hate my job hate my job its because i hate my job more than anything else No its because youve no life youve no life youve no life and you better go get one after forwarding this crap" using "cellos"'

In case you’re into fiction and can still actually READ a book, go on and grab this one. Purposefully written in the way that “simulates” how our minds are starting to think: short, cryptic, hyperlinked.

The issue here is the way Globalize handles templates: digging in on the globalize/lib/globalize/rails/action_view.rb file, you’ll notice that it now expects only a handful of extensions: in other words, whatever custom view handler you register will simply not work. Poof.

This hack was probably done in order to allow internationalized templates (like ‘page.html.en.erb’, for instance). So you have three options here:

1 - comment out the custom path_and_extension implementation from Globalize.

2 - figure out a way to add more extensions to the @@re_extension, probably by also overriding the register_handler from ActionView::Base.

3 - change the @@re_extension yourself. The downside is that you’ll have to remember to do that again in case you need to add support for yet another custom view type.