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If you are Ruby on Rails developers (if not, try be one), you might be using RadRails IDE for your rails application development (if not, try it). Just you know, RadRails is Eclipes based IDE, as many others. Now, RadRails become classic. The AJAX IDE opensource tool Aptana integrated the RadRails.

So, Akismet, and other spam blockers, are spreading the workload out to everyone.

Ubuntu 7.04 was released and I decided to download it so I could install it under Parallels over the weekend. I didn’t have a BitTorrent client on this Mac, not needing one since I got the Mac at the beginning of the year. While I could download the ISO I figured the Ubuntu servers might still be busy so it was a good time to find a BitTorrent client.

My first talk was a 4 hour “Introduction to Ruby on Rails”. It had a decent turnout, and was a lot of fun to give. Thanks to a IM chat with Harish the night before the talk, I gave the best line I’ve given so far in a talk (IMHO): “So, what type of web application would you like to build today?”

La culture d’innovation reste forte dans les équipes techniques de ces deux sociétés mais cela ne se voit pas toujours très bien. Plus les équipes sont concentrées sur les améliorations incrémentales des produits majeurs, moins l’innovation est perceptible. Surtout quand dans le même temps, les innovations des produits “mineurs” ne sont pas bien marketés et que nombre de nouveautés sont le résultat d’acquisitions comme chez Google. Pas mal de petits produits sont cachés et mal marketés chez Microsoft comme Onfolio, acheté en mars 2006, un très bon lecteur de flux RSS, mais utilisable seulement à partir de la Windows Live Toolbar. Et donc… passé aux oubliettes.

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Software Foundation Europe and Open Rights Group launched a call for action because next week the European Parliament will vote IPRED2, the EU’s second intellectual property enforcement directive.

Check out getjar.com. You’ll find a list of free software arranged by title, device and platform. There’s e-crypt, pocket wallet, pocket oxford english dictionary and the oh so popular PalmaSutra.

Displaying flash messages in the layout can be a pain at times. In this episode you will learn an easy way to display any kind of flash message by looping through the hash.

NASA is looking for volunteers to write code. In an attempt to start an open source collaboration with software developers, NASA has started CosmosCode:

We’ve all been to that really “neat” website… the one that made us take a second look.. the one that had more functions than a swiss army knife… the flash website. Flash website is truly a sign of the times. It’s beautiful, and by far one of the most interactive ways to design a website. If your business is thinking of designing a website, flash is definitely an option to consider. However, there are always a few rules and drawbacks when it comes to have your business’s website design in pure flash.

But, according to Markezine (in Japanese), Google Japan now offers mobile Gmail; namely, Docomo, AU, and Softbank. Yes, Softbank, which is strongly affiliated with Yahoo Japan. I used to afraid Google might be more integrated with AU; but glad to see they include docomo and rival softbank, even.

O Rails permite que você particione diferentes áreas do sistema, agrupando os controllers em subdiretórios.

Therefore, for all of the following definitions, I have placed the JavaScript that the method generates after the Ruby code. The Ruby code is marked with the comment # Ruby code, and the JavaScript is marked with // Generated JavaScript.

Essa “bem-intencionada” limitação veio como uma tentativa da Microsoft de diminuir a velocidade com que os Worms do Windows (assim como o famoso Blaster) pudessem se espalhar. No entanto, softwares com múltiplas conexões, assim como o BitTorrent, eMule e P2PTV, essa limitação causa grande lentidão no compartilhamento dos arquivos. Essa problema no XP SP2 poder ser resolvido com um patch disponível no site LvlLord.

Sahana , an Open Source Disaster Management system that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, has won the 2006 Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit awarded by the Free Software Foundation.

L’interface de HiTask est très intuitive. Vous y retrouvez un calendrier, une vue de la journée en cours et ses activités, les membres de votre équipe, la fenêtre de clavardage et évidemment, l’espace vous permettant d’ajouter vos tâches. HiTask utilise les technologies auxquelles vous vous attendez d’un service Web2.0. Utilisation de l’Ajax qui permet de faire des modifications à la page sans devoir la rafraîchir. Vous pouvez aussi modifier les dates de début et fin d’une tâche, réorganiser l’ordre de vos tâches ou encore attribuer une tâche à un autre projet en un clin d’œil en glissant et déposant vos éléments sur le calendrier ou d’un projet à l’autre.

RJS wouldn’t be very useful if you couldn’t make Ajax calls from your pages. Rails offers many ways to perform Ajax calls and each is particularly suited to a particular situation. See the Ruby on Rails documentation for more information on the following methods.