Space Babies
extraterrestrialicious web apps
Colors in Capistrano
Wow, purdee colors in my Capistrano output!
Launched today: human rights survey
Today I launched www.mensenrechtenonderzoek.nl. This is a national survey aimed at three age groups: children 10-12, children 15-18 and adults. It surveys the public knowledge about human rights, especially those related to children.
Advertisement opt-out
I just discovered this page, which presumably opts me out from receiving targeted ads. Yey! No idea if this actually works, but seems like a good idea.
Rails on Google App Engine
Google has just announced Java support for their App Engine. So what? Ruby on Rails on teh Google is what! Yes, sir, you too can deploy your Rails application absolutely free on Google’s infrastructure. See this post for more details. Nice. Wanna bet that Google will natively support Ruby in the future? (thanks Daniël)
I heart Rack Middleware
This Scaling Rails episode led me to the Rack Contrib project on GitHub. This project contains some pretty neat middleware that can be a huge time-saver in developing Rails apps. I am going to use some of these for sure.
First International Longest Tweet Contest
How many data can you put in a Tweet? Well, 140 characters. Think again. By using encoding software, like ZIP, you can put a whole lot more into one little Tweet. There is even an International Longest Tweet Contest for it. The record is something like 4000 characters!
Transmit your production database
I wrote a small Ruby on Rails plugin that transmits the production database. It works either way: from the server to your local computer or from your computer to the server. The latter, of course, should only be used with caution. Read more.
Cross-browser HTML5 audio tag
HTML5, the next version of the language of the web, is a wonderful thing. It’s a real step forward in terms of semantics and making browsers more powerful. Any day now I will relaunch a major website done completely in HTML5. Working on that, I discovered some caveats implementing the audio tag.