For some reason it is difficult to use the [] and {} characters when using IRB with a non-english keyboard on Windows XP. To get it working together with tab completion: Create a new environment variable called “HOME” and set it to your user home folder (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\peterk). Create a text dcument called “.inputrc” in your user home folder with the following content: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "M-[": "[" "M-]": "]" "M-{": "{" "M-}": "}" "M-\": "\" "M-|": "|" "M-@": "@" "M-~": "~" Make sure irb....

My colleague Marcus Ahnve is blogging from Javapolis 2005 in Antwerp, Belgium. For the latest information about EJB3, Dolphin, Java Server Faces and Spring 2.0 see Head On.

Just an observation, but everytime I speak about Rails with Dotnet developers they are less impressed than their Java counterparts. This may not be so strange considering that Rails solves a lot of issues unheard of in the Dotnet world. Some issues that Rails solves that I have found that Dotnet developers typically find easy are: Deployment: Drag nad drop new files to the web root of your Dotnet application and you are set....

An update to make Fangs compatible with Firefox 1.5 is in the works. It almost works, but Firefox 1.5 broke the default setting for how developers can access the document object in javascript. I will try to update it as soon as possible. Thank you for all the encouraging emails.