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Ruby on Rails Release 1.0 is Out of the Box!, with a re-designed web home @ http://www.rubyonrails.org/, and lots of good stuff to discover. Also on the main page is “Who is already on Rails?” highlighting a few real world Continue reading Rails 1.0: Party like it’s one oh oh!
NOTE (updated 2008): this post is based on VERSION 1 of Rails from 2005!! For Ruby 1.8, Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 checkout a preamble to Building a Cascading Drop Down Selection List for Ruby on Rails with jQuery Ajax In Continue reading Building a Better Drop Down Selection List for Ruby on Rails
Yahoo! has just acquired del.icio.us, the social bookmarking service, as announced on the Yahoo and the Del.icio.us blog’s What’s the big deal about delicious? Well you can read What’s so cool about del.icio.us?, and or what I wrote a year Continue reading yahoo.icio.us! : del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family
Why FireFox : Automated update; Faster browser navigation;Drag and drop browser tabs; Improved popup blocking; Clear Private Data; better product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience; Better accessibility support; Better support for Continue reading Firefox 1.5 is out! Help Build a Better Web.
The Songbird Media Player is a desktop media player, built atop XULRunner platform (also used by Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox and Thunderbird), and will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Just like Firefox, it will be open to extensions! Continue reading The Songbird Media Player, built with XUL, DRM free.
Via Dave Winner’s Scripting News is the news that Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. What is it for? the bi-directional, asynchronous replication of Feeds (RSS) or outlines Continue reading Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPM: loosely coupled Integration.