I had suggested that my company use Google Calendar to publish events. It’s easy, it can be made public and shareable, and it beats figuring out how to publish an Outlook/Exchange calendar on the web. (From what I’ve read about Google Calendar, you can publish multiple calendars individually controlling the level of privacy and publicity—ooo, maybe we can migrate away from Exchange…) Yet, the coolest part about Google Calendar is that you can embed it in your web page using an iframe which Google provides a handy-dandy configurator to generate the HTML. The worst part about Google Calendar is that you embed it in your web page using an iframe.

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Ruby’s beauty is often attributed to its terseness. However, there are times when you need to be really explicit in order to coax it to do your bidding. For example, a Rails form helper needs a bunch of parantheses and curly braces in order to be a named element. Which makes sense, as :id can represent a Rails (ActiveRecord) object ID or a DOM element ID. The Ruby punctuation removes such ambiguity.

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