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Re: News Feeds, News And A New Newspaper | BPWrap

Dan Croak — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:38:04 -0000

Hey Barry,

We have RSS feeds! Add us to your reader and expect the number of articles/day to jump dramatically in coming weeks... We haven't made any "formal" announcement about ourselves as we feel like we are still very much in the early stages of our development, but will do so rather soon...

Stay in touch!

Dan Croak
Publisher, National Gazette

Re: Consolation

Dan Croak — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:53:12 -0000

I agree with Ted ~ I'm not so sure that Lofton wasn't out because he bounced off the second base bag.

Momentum is huge in baseball, but I believe Pedroia's and Youk's hitting at the end combined with fantastic relief performances by Okie and Pap would have carried the day regardless of the outcomes of earlier 50/50 events.

The Red Sox deserved to win and I hope they take home the World Series! :)

Re: Our ActiveRecord book ...and YOU!

Dan Croak — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:04:00 -0000

Very cool. Apress made a great choice bringing you and Jon on board. Your currently listed biographies on their site are fascinating, too. “A biography is not available for this author.”

A classic rags-to-riches story.

The question I’ve had for while about Ruby and databases that I’d love to see addressed is an explanation of “object databases” or “object-oriented databases.” I’ve only ever used relational databases and I don’t know why object databases are never discussed. Why are they not a good choice for a typical web app? What is the story behind how relational databases won mindshare over object databases? If impedance mismatch has been such a big problem that Rails’ and ActiveRecord’s elegant solution to object-relational mapping has drawn developers from all over the software world, why haven’t programmers in particular turned to the direct storage of objects? Is a Ruby Object Database a potential next step in the Rails world? Wouldn’t it make data retrieval faster? More importantly, wouldn’t it just be nice to have a full Ruby stack from databases to Rails to Mongrel?

Longest comment ever.

Re: Grameen Bank Founder Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Dan Croak — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:01:16 -0000

Warren,

My name is Dan Croak and I'm the publisher of an online newspaper that is slated to launch on October 31. I'm looking for a talented writer to submit a detailed article on microloans, Muhammad Yunus, and Grameen Bank for the first issue. Would you be willing to expand and polish this blog post for submission to National Gazette?

You can register for an account and submit any article you'd like at the beta site:

http://dev.nationalgazette.org/

This is the first time I've been to treehugger.com, by the way, and I like what I see.