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February 28, 2007

Thematic Maps

A nice Ruby on Rails application using Google Maps.

But I want do write all of this quickly, so will use Ruby on Rails instead of Java. I thought about finding out how to access Java from RoR but realised that I might as well keep Richard’s code in its own Java web app and call it using HTTP from the Ruby web app.

 

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Posted on February 28, 2007 02:08 PM by ruby o600.
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February 27, 2007

Welcome To Bittorrent

Good introduction to BitTorrent.

Bittorrent users account for less than 15% of users (geeks like me) but they use 50% of the total bandwidth of the internet, thats how many movies are zipping around the web!

 

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Corel Releases Beta Of WordPerfect Lightning

Click through for more on WordPerfect Lightning and new online services.

WordPerfect Lightning is one of a wave of applications integrating desktop applications with online features for greater access and easier collaboration. In March 2006, Google bought Upstartle, a company that created the online word processor Writely.

 

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Posted on February 27, 2007 06:55 PM by writel602.
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Microsoft Acquires Health Search Engine Medstory

Buying each other's strengths: Google acquires an Office-type app, while Microsoft acquires a search engine.

I think Microsoft’s acquisition brings up a bunch of things. Vertical search engines in the past haven’t had their 15 seconds of fame — given the volume, they’ve rather been ignored and overlooking. Microsoft acquiring a search engine and Google acquiring things like JotSpot and Writely seem to show how important both the company’s fields are and how important it is for them to expand.

 

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Posted on February 27, 2007 06:55 PM by writel602.
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Events For Texas Techies

If you're in Texas, and you want some Ruby on Rails social networking.

Wednesday is Refresh Houston/Ruby on Rails User Group Meetup. Find out more or RSVP here: http://upcoming.org/event/156351/

 

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Posted on February 27, 2007 02:04 PM by ruby o600.
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EzineArticles And IE7

In and out of love with IE7 and its popup blockers.

It took me about 10-15 minutes to wrap everything up and I was pretty happy with what I had written. Then I go to preview what I wrote - simple enough. But no - IE7 (which I used to like, then I didn’t, then I kind of did until just now) decides to block the popup - apparently Mr. Gates didn’t get the memo that we all have several effective popup blockers already installed and we don’t need yet another one.

 

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Posted on February 27, 2007 01:05 PM by Spam B86.
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February 26, 2007

BitTorrent Cria Serviço "Legal" De Download

BitTorrent gets legal.

A empresa BitTorrent, que oferece uma tecnologia utilizada com freqüência para troca de arquivos piratas na internet, lançou um serviço de conteúdo legalizado. Para lançar o BitTorrent Entertainment Network, disponível na página original do programa, a companhia fez acordos com estúdios de Hollywood e também emissoras que concordaram em fornecer programas on-line.

 

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Posted on February 26, 2007 09:49 PM by bittor482.
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February 18, 2007

Rails Acts As Authenticated Plugin

Click through for a good tutorial on authentication with Ruby on Rails.

What is the first model you would create when developing a Ruby on Rails based web service? Mostly likely you would create a user model so as to authenticate users and grant them certain business specific privileges. Creating the required table, model, and views for a user is so common that there exists a great Rails plugin for the task. Acts as Authenticated is a plugin generator that will create your base user model and views required for a user-centric web application. Just like previous plugins, you need download and install the plugin by using the ’script/plugin install URL’ command where you replace URL with the following.

 

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Posted on February 18, 2007 12:46 PM by ruby o600.
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February 16, 2007

Free As In Culture

A look at the new Definition of Free Cultural Works vis a vis Free Software.

Benjamin, started thinking about the issue almost two years ago, explaining that unlike Free Software, Creative Commons in his opinion failed to set any standard of freedom. Then he argued that:

 

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Posted on February 16, 2007 03:49 AM by Free S87.
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February 15, 2007

New Host Gor Scrawlers.com

Click through for the story of finding a good host for a Ruby on Rails site.

My shortlist for moving from Dreamhost to a more reliable and configurable Rails host was:

 

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Posted on February 15, 2007 12:50 PM by ruby o600.
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February 14, 2007

Flex And The Developer Experience

If Flex had just been available a little sooner, it might have help with applications like Excel and Writely.

If Excel had been made in Flex originally, Microsoft wouldn’t have to change a thing. Their biggest challenge would be to create a business model that supported a web-friendly version of the product, but practically none of the code would need any sort of update to be ready for the web. Countless man-hours could be saved. The same comparison could be made between Writely, now Google documents, and Word; outlook and gmail, or yahoo mail, or even hotmail; Flickr and iPhoto, or just about any other desktop application that has an online equivalent.

 

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Posted on February 14, 2007 06:45 PM by writel602.
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February 13, 2007

DRM'd!

BitTorrent and lots of downloads, or a disk and player?

Sure, its still kind of just looking through crap loads of memory calls to find an AACS processing key, but it works on every current title. I cant say I’m loving the idea of downloading 20gb rips via bittorrent, but the h264 encodes of said movies should be marvellous.

 

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Posted on February 13, 2007 09:46 PM by bittor482.
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February 08, 2007

Presentations In Google Suite?

Is Presently the name of Google's evolving office suite?

Most likely, the final name will not be Presently, but, going with the Docs & Spreadsheets theme, the additions will be Google Presentations and Google Databases. I’d be shocked if they got a creative name, especially after Google dumped the Writely name for “Docs”.

 

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Posted on February 8, 2007 07:14 PM by writel602.
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OfficeLive Web Design

Website designer can use OfficeLive to generate cost-effective web sites.

The view is that OfficeLive offers partners plenty of commercial opportunities such as website design services and consultancy. However, I also see it helping you to keep existing clients as well. For example, the MD of your client wants you to design a website for his son’s football team and you know you’ll be too expensive. Don’t want to lose him? No problem! Just give him an OfficeLive site and your client is a happy bunny.

 

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Posted on February 8, 2007 05:49 PM by Websit85.
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Mo时代

Same old story, same old ending.

今天终于拿到了票,不过只有一张到沈阳的所以还要转下车,已经让老苍帮我提前买另一段的票,下车就可以跳上另一趟啦。刚刚尝试了手机版的Google,Gmail更酷些,甚至提供下载客户端JAVA软件,收发邮件的界面类似于用PC,相当的友好。不过个人感觉用网页收发快点,而且数据量也很小,打开一封信件只要3、4K的样子。5M的包月数据量,走到哪里都可以surf online了=)

 

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Posted on February 8, 2007 04:45 AM by gmail178.
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Ruport News

From the latest Ruport news, info on free software.

As if that wasn’t enough new developments, there are more. Gregory Brown will give a presentation at the Boston Ruby Group on February 13. The presentation will consist of a short introduction to Ruport and a demonstration of a camping application running on top of Ruport. On the heels of that talk, Gregory will be attending the Mountain West Ruby Conference on March 16-17. While there, he will give a talk about the “tools, techniques, and practices necessary to build a successful free software project.” Gregory will refer to his experiences with Ruport and will therefore be able to give pragmatic advice on getting through choke points during a project’s growth.

 

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Posted on February 8, 2007 03:43 AM by Free S87.
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February 07, 2007

Ruby On Rails For .NET Developers

Review of a presentation on Ruby on Rails for .NET developers.

After a brief spell writing a Ruby on Rails app last summer I always meant to do more stuff with it, but somehow I never got around to it. I was hoping this talk would re-ignite my enthusiasm and give me some good pointers.

 

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Posted on February 7, 2007 01:50 PM by ruby o600.
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Creating Rails Applications In Subversion

A good idea for using Subversion with Ruby on Rails.

ok… saying the title is even longer than typing the command:

svnrails --url ./repos/my_app/trunk my_app

this will make sure you have a functional empty rails application in your local repository that is it will:

 

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Posted on February 7, 2007 12:45 PM by ruby o600.
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February 06, 2007

Japanese Cuteness

Check out Japanese cuteness on BitTorrent here.

Cuteness permeates every episode. I guess such unpretentious and sincere cuteness is why I genuinely like Someday’s Dreamers. The entire premise of the series is cute, the protagonist is painfully cute, and the whole series is saturated in cuteness. Don’t take my word for it. Download some episodes via BitTorrent and see for yourself. =)

 

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Posted on February 6, 2007 09:42 PM by bittor482.
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