NetBeans 6.0 is already becoming a great Ruby on Rails IDE. However, with all the extra Java stuff it can be a bit slow and cluttered if you only develop in Ruby. Tonight I discovered the NetBeans team has created a Ruby Only NetBeans IDE. The IDE comes pre-installed with all the Ruby on Rails stuff. The project looks rather new and still very beta. However, I actually found this version of NetBeans to be more stable then the bloated Java/Ruby NetBeans 6.0 builds. So give it a try and let me know you you think. Hopefully, the continue work on this project and release it as a actually product some day.
I lost my domain Dan Baxter dot com to God.
Posted by Dan Baxter
on January 05, 2007
This is just a quick rant. About a year and a half ago I lost my domain danbaxter.com that I owned since 1999. I forgot to re-register it and my crappy registrar never sent me any notice that it was about to expire. I found out the hard way when my email started bouncing. So now my old domain now points to another Dan Baxter who’s a Russian Missionary that lives in Moscow. He recently redirected the domain to his new blog worshipthoughts.com. I was once the first result in Google for the term “dan baxter”. Now my myspace profile is ranked 2nd with danbaxter.net 1st and worshipthoughts.com 3rd. It turns out that the owner of danbaxter.net is yet another God loving Christian. This Dan Baxter is from Texas and also wants to goto Russia to spread Gods word?!? What the hell is in Russia and why does every Dan Baxter online want to go there to worship God? I find it all a bit strange. Most people loose there domains to hijackers that post Google ad spam, I lost mine to God..
However, in the end I lucked out and was able to register a trendy web 2.0 version of my name. I’ll continue to blog here at baxtr.com unless a higher power decides to stop me.