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Hi,

This will be the last post on this blog.

I now have a new blog called Eventually Consistent. You can also subscribe to it in a reader.

I will keep this blog content online for archiving as I don't plan to import it in my new blog.

It's been fun, please visit me on Eventually Consistent!

Colin.

Links for 2007-11-10 [best of my feeds]

The Facebook Community is Worried Posted: 09 Nov 2007 01:59 PM CST I was interviewed yesterday afternoon on "Homerun", the drive home show of CBC Radio One Montreal, about the new Facebook Pages and SocialAds products. The writer that prepared the interview was very well informed and had managed to capture a good...

New Praized HQ

New Praized HQ, originally uploaded by colin.surprenant.

Here's the new Montreal Praized HQ where we just moved in! w00t!!

Links for 2007-11-08 [del.icio.us]

Links for 2007-11-08 [del.icio.us] Posted: 09 Nov 2007 12:00 AM CST fff9652d04.jpg (JPEG Image, 1652x1275 pixels) what beautiful HTML code looks like Taste Documentation Taste is a flexible, fast collaborative filtering engine for Java. The engine takes users' preferences for items ("tastes") and returns estimated preferences for other items. Top10SQLPerformanceTips - MySQLForge Wiki .:: General Purpose Hash Function Algorithms - By Arash Partow ::.

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Links for 2007-11-07 [del.icio.us] Posted: 08 Nov 2007 12:00 AM CST Rail Spikes: Bringing the Rails Magic to Facebook Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : Vista: poor man's NetStumbler Vistumbler — www.TechIdiots.net - www.ElectronicInsanity.com Vistumbler is a netstumbler like program for Vista(or later...maybe). firstworks: sql relay - sqlrelay persistent database connection pool pooling proxy load balance balancing odbc oracle mysql msql postgresql sybase db2 interbase sqlite access c++ perl DBD DBI python php zope ruby tcl java jni unix linux persistant SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux. RubyForge: Ruby/DBI: Project Info Ruby/DBI develops a database independent interface for accessing databases - similar to Perl's DBI.

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Links for 2007-11-06 [del.icio.us] Posted: 07 Nov 2007 12:00 AM CST Plugins - Click To Globalize - Agile Web Development This plugin is an extension of Rails Globalize and allows to translate your views in place!! It's easy to plugin and plugout and also support Textile and Markdown formatting. Ruby/ReliableMessaging - Labnotes This package provides reliable messaging and persistent queues for building asynchronous applications in Ruby. ActiveMessaging - activemessaging - Google Code ActiveMessaging brings the simplicity of rails to the world of messaging. Messaging, (or event-driven architecture) is widely used for enterprise integration, with frameworks such as Java's JMS, and products such as ActiveMQ, Tibco, IBM MQSeries, etc. AP4R Wiki: HomePage AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is the implementation of reliable asynchronous message processing. It provides message queuing, and also message dispatching. Welcome to Jabber4R The purpose of this library is to allow Ruby applications to talk to a Jabber instant messenging system.

Links for 2007-10-31 [best of my feeds]

Google is Building a Mobile Development Platform Posted: 30 Oct 2007 03:40 PM CDT The Wall Street Journal reports (via ZDNet) on Google's efforts to disrupt the wireless industry. Of note: "Within the next two weeks, Google is expected to announce advanced software and services that would allow handset makers to bring...

Google is Spearheading the Launch of an Open Social Web API Posted: 31 Oct 2007 04:38 PM CDT Following this blog post yesterday about my speculation that Google is building a mobile development platform, the whole blogosphere announced this morning that Google is leading an initiative called OpenSocial that will see the launch an open...

The future of ECMAScript 3 is 4? Posted: 01 Nov 2007 12:01 AM CDT It seems like we are reaching a boiling point for ECMAScript 4. The politics and opinions are growing. Opinions are good. Brendan spoke out recently and we have had a raft of blogs and comments on the matter recently. Microsoft have been...

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Links for 2007-10-31 [del.icio.us] Posted: 01 Nov 2007 12:00 AM CDT blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web Open Social is an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: "Containers" social networking systems and "Apps" applications that want to be embedded within containers. Google Firefox Extensions Google Firefox extensions from Google Labs Complete List of United States Zip Codes | AggData

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Links for 2007-10-30 [del.icio.us] Posted: 31 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT StrikeIron Reverse Phone Lookup API - ProgrammableWeb Profile The StrikeIron 24-hour Accurate Reverse Phone Lookup Web Service provides a programmatic interface to name and address data associated to any telephone number, including residential, business, and government numbers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Porter Stemming Algorithm The Porter stemming algorithm (or 'Porter stemmer') is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English. Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process. Liverail - Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails Facebook Developers Facebook platform developers ressource PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 8.3: Dictionaries Dictionaries are used to eliminate stop words in a search, and to normalize words so that different derived forms of the same word will match. Aside from improving search quality, normalization and removal of stop words improves performance. a work on process » A Ruby on Rails OpenID Server

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Links for 2007-10-29 [del.icio.us] Posted: 30 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT CASCADES project: Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Prism Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. Telephone numbering plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stemmer Stemmer is a Gem package of (right now) the Porter word stemming algorithm. The code was ported from Perl to Ruby by RayPereda? and packaged as a Gem via RubyForge by MattMower.

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Links for 2007-10-27 [del.icio.us] Posted: 28 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Product: Puppet the Automated Administration System | High Scalability Puppet implements a declarative (what not how) configuration language for automating common administration tasks. Nagios: Home Nagios® is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program. Cacti: The Complete RRDTool-based Graphing Solution Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Operations is a competitive advantage... (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

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Links for 2007-10-25 [del.icio.us] Posted: 26 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Friendster API Platform FBJS - Facebook Developers Wiki FBJS is Facebook's solution for developers who want to use Javascript in their Facebook applications. We built FBJS to empower developers with all the functionality they need, and to protect our users' privacy at the same time. EZTV - TV Torrents Online Latitude-Longitude Decimal Conversion Latitude-Longitude Math geo - Microformats geo is a simple format for marking up WGS84 geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude), suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. GeoKit for Rails: home A Rails plugin for easier map-based applications GeoNames The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names. Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API The Geocoding Web Service allows you to find the specific latitude and longitude for an address. You can use this service to geocode your points in advance or forego it altogether with built-in geocoding in our AJAX and Flash APIs.

Links for 2007-10-24 [best of my feeds]

Nokia N810: One Mean Local Search Machine Posted: 23 Oct 2007 03:55 PM CDT Nokia used the Web 2.0 Summit to launch their new Nokia N810 Internet tablet (specs here). Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Multimedia, took the stage to explain to us why it was a great device. I managed to capture...

Is MOBIVOX Montreal’s current star startup? Posted: 23 Oct 2007 08:55 PM CDT MOBIVOX announced today that they have now a new COO, Nitzan Shaer, who was previously an "Entrepreneur-In-Residence" at IDG Ventures Boston, which I guess is a fancy way to call a business developer. IDG Ventures Boston led earlier this month...

Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio Posted: 23 Oct 2007 10:13 AM CDT Mozilla has released its 2006 audited financials and that little Google search box in the top right of Firefox is the gift that keeps giving. Mozilla's revenue, which includes Mozilla's foundation and corporation, came in at $66.8 million in 2006....

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Links for 2007-10-24 [del.icio.us] Posted: 25 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT MRI :: for web developers MRI is a free cross browser tool that lets you test selectors with any web page. Selectors, particularly complex ones can be difficult to get exactly right - MRI lets you experiment with them on any web page (local or online, static or dynamic). WYM on Rails WYM Editor Helper is a plugin that makes it dead easy to incorporate the WYM editor into your Rails views. I know there's already plugins to use FCKEditor or TinyMCE, but if you're as much into standards as we are, you will definitely like WYM better. bbPress » Home bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Rails Edge Notes

Links for 2007-10-23 [best of my feeds]

Quote of the day! Posted: 22 Oct 2007 11:18 AM CDT My Social Media Life And Why Walled Gardens Don't Work : In a world of information overload, walled gardens don't work.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you Posted: 22 Oct 2007 03:46 PM CDT HOWTO network without becoming a disingenuous weasel | 43 Folders : [The] heart of ethical and humane networking means not asking favors of others, but instead frequently doing unrequested propers for others. And expecting zilch in return. So I...

When Is A Blog Not A Blog? Posted: 14 Oct 2007 01:22 AM CDT There are blogs that don't take comments (like this one: I don't have time to moderate spam). There are mainstream media sites that are adopting reader comments. There are blogs being published by independent companies with editorial staff. There...

n-Tier Apps and Client-Side Caching Posted: 08 Oct 2007 07:29 PM CDT Nick Sieger brings up an interesting question. Imagine an n-tier application and you're using HTTP to connect the tiers together. That wasn't the question, just a good practical advise to follow. The question was, can you place a proxy server...

Read Consistency: Dumb Databases, Smart Services Posted: 20 Sep 2007 04:22 AM CDT Write Consistency This is quite a common scenario. You have a shared resource, and a lot of applications tapping into that shared resource. The shared resource holds state, the applications read and change that state. So far nothing particularly...

Google Gears Posted: 01 Jun 2007 12:11 AM CDT I looked at Google Gears briefly. It claims to offer offline web application capabilities, and does so by providing a way to copy static web files for offline use and access a local relational database. Cool, I guess. The thing is, it gives you no...

System overload Posted: 13 Sep 2007 04:04 PM CDT Erlang is highly concurrent. Damien is not. CouchDb has been getting tons of interest. I can barely keep up with it. I wish I weren't so busy so I could actually respond to some of the stuff people are writing. Between my newborn daughter, my...

SliceHost 12 Months Mini-Review Posted: 04 Sep 2007 03:23 AM CDT How do you know that a web hosting company is good? You do a Google Search, landed on an initial impression review written almost 12 months ago, search around the site for any hint of negative comments on that hosting company and find none, and 12...

Google going social on maps Posted: 19 Oct 2007 07:16 AM CDT Google LatLong: Put yourself on the map Who knows your neighborhood better than you? That's why we've been releasing features that let you add your own content to Google Maps. For example, you can use our map-creation tools to make maps of...

Mark Zuckerberg on social graph data portability Posted: 18 Oct 2007 10:35 AM CDT Mark Zuckerberg on Exporting Data Out of Facebook: "We Realize This Is a Flaw in the System" : Taking the stage yesterday afternoon for a Q&A with John Battelle, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and CEO, admitted that the fact you can't...

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Links for 2007-10-23 [del.icio.us] Posted: 24 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT http://mediacloth.rubyforge.org/ MediaCloth is the first MediaWiki parser written in Ruby. MediaCloth is also the first true MediaWiki parser which has handwritten lexer, LALR parser, AST builder, walker and HTML generator. Hacker News | Three steps program to be "in" altought you are "out" of Silicon Valley...1. Blo... Three steps program to be "in" altought you are "out" of Silicon Valley... IBM software architect kit Tamper Data :: Firefox Add-ons Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters... CouchDb Project Website Labnotes » n-Tier Apps and Client-Side Caching OpenID » How do I get an OpenID? Globalize for Ruby on Rails Webapplication Internationalization that doesn't hurt identity-matcher - Google Code Rails plugin to match identities and import social network graphs across sites Yahoo! UI Library: YUI Theater A Guide to Testing the Rails Introducing Test/Unit What's That Noise?! [Ian Kallen's Weblog] Scaling PostgreSQL Flickr: Discussing Machine tags in Flickr API PragDave: Change to REST URLs for Rails 2.0 Amie St Hits the Nail on the Head - The Unofficial Facebook Blog Yelp Adds Detailed Ratings Graphs for Users chkrootkit -- locally checks for signs of a rootkit chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit. Backupninja riseup labs Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities. Plugins - CopperWire - Agile Web Development Places a footnote at the bottom of your (X)HTML code displaying database and rendering times of the current page. You may have seen similar footnotes on twitter. Railscasts - OpenID Authentication Ever wonder how to implement OpenID authentication in your Rails app? This episode will show you how to add it to a site with an existing authentication system. Ethic of reciprocity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The ethic of reciprocity or "The Golden Rule" is a fundamental moral principle which simply means "treat others as you would like to be treated."

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Links for 2007-10-22 [del.icio.us] Posted: 23 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Web2Summit: Flickr Places Announced Strategy: Send XHR Request on Lost Focus Instead of For Every Character | High Scalability Epoch Converter - Unix Timestamp Converter Free online unix timestamp and epoch conversion tool Labnotes » Read Consistency: Dumb Databases, Smart Services

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Links for 2007-10-18 [del.icio.us] Posted: 19 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT MySQL/Ruby for Windows MySQL/Ruby is a native MySQL database adapter for Ruby by Tomita Masahiro. RubyOnRailsMedia in Ruby on Rails Ruby On Rails logos, icons, buttons, wallpapers, etc. digitalBush » Masked Input Plugin This is a masked input plugin for the jQuery javascript library. It allows a user to more easily enter fixed width input where you would like them to enter the data in a certain format (dates,phone numbers, etc).

Links for 2007-10-17 [del.icio.us] Posted: 18 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT ActiveWarehouse: Extract-Transform-Load Tool The ActiveWarehouse ETL component provides a means of getting data from multiple data sources into your data warehouse. The links in the side bar provide additional information on ETL.

Links for 2007-10-17 [best of my feeds]

From Ninja Stealth to Kick-Ass Kung Fu (and beyond) Posted: 17 Oct 2007 09:25 AM CDT Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Don't Talk : Most Likely Reasons Startups Won't Talk 1. Lack of Direction 2. Lack of Focus 3. Lack of Commitment 4. Lack of A Solution 5. They Have A Secret I agree to most of the reasons...

Re-inventing XMLHttpRequest: Cross-browser implementation with sniffing capabilities Posted: 17 Oct 2007 08:18 AM CDT Sergey Ilinsky has written up an article on an XMLHttpRequest implementation wrapper that provides an equal XHR playground across the various browsers. If you use the wrapper you can fix things like: Internet Explorer: memory leak in...

Account delegation standard released: OAuth 1.0 now public Posted: 22 Sep 2007 08:19 PM CDT Yesterday a spec was released that solves one of the internet identity problems: how do you let an app access your account at a web service without giving it your username and password. Yahoo, AOL, Flickr and Google all had a slightly different...

Don’t go against the grain Posted: 17 Oct 2007 05:30 AM CDT Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web : It's not true to say that Facebook is the new AOL, and it's oversimplification to say that Facebook's API is the new Blackbird, or the new Rainman. But Facebook is part of the web. Think...

Links for 2007-10-16 [best of my feeds]

EC2 for everyone. And now includes 64bit with 15GB Ram too. Posted: 16 Oct 2007 02:20 PM CDT Finally it happened. EC2 is available for everybody. And more than that they now provide servers with 7.5GB and 15GB of RAM per instance. Sweet. For a lot of companies EC2 was not viable due to high memory requirements of some of the...

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Links for 2007-10-16 [del.icio.us] Posted: 17 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Bamboo Blog - ESI caching in Ruby on Rails ESI Edge Side Includes (ESI) is a simple markup language used to define Web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of Web applications at the edges of the Internet. EC2 on Rails This is an Ubuntu Linux server image for Amazon's EC2 hosting service that's ready to run a standard Ruby on Rails application with little or no customization. Basically it's a Ruby on Rails virtual appliance. VirtualBox VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also Open Source Software under GPL. Pandora FMS - Free Monitoring System Pandora FMS is a monitoring Open Source software. It watches your systems and applications, and allows you to know the status of any element of those systems. DBSlayer - Trac DBSlayer is a lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP. Git - Fast Version Control System Git is a popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. ZenTest: Automated test scaffolding for Ruby Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers Because it was the first time we designed, developed, and deployed a complete web application with our new team, we wanted to chronicle our experiences over the whole process - particularly with Ruby on Rails. A Hodel 3000 Compliant Logger for the Rest of Us | Ruby on Rails for Newbies The Rails Analyzer Tools are a very useful way to keep tabs on the performance of your site. They were written by Eric Hodel and have been open-sourced to the community by the Robot Co-Op. AOP_in_Ruby.pdf (application/pdf Object) Aspect-Oriented Programming in Ruby Eribium » Blog Archive » Ruby/Rails SQS Plugin

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Links for 2007-10-15 [del.icio.us] Posted: 16 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT pgpool : Connection Pool Server for PostgreSQL pgpool is a connection pool server for PostgreSQL. pgpool runs between PostgreSQL's clients(front ends) and servers(back ends). A PostgreSQL client can connect to pgpool as if it were a standard PostgreSQL server. Slony-I Slony-I is a "master to multiple slaves" replication system supporting cascading (e.g. - a node can feed another node which feeds another node...) and failover. FiveRuns™ – Enterprise Management for Rails Monitoring, analysing and reporting for Rails

Links for 2007-10-14 [best of my feeds]

Google releases stand-alone desktop widget engine Posted: 06 Oct 2007 03:07 PM CDT Google Desktop widgets can now be embedded in your iGoogle personal start page. This new functionality adds OS-level functionality such as CPU utilization, currently playing tracks in iTunes, or a battery indicator inside a Web interface. Google...

Capistrano 2.1 Posted: 14 Oct 2007 01:02 PM CDT After a much larger delay than I would have liked, Capistrano 2.1 is now available! There is a lot going on in this release, including some pretty exciting changes. As ever, install it via RubyGems with: gem install capistrano Here's...

How many Google Reader subscribers do you have? Posted: 14 Oct 2007 06:23 PM CDT Darren Rowse on ProBlogger showed me how to look up how many subscribers I have on Google Reader. So, I went looking for some numbers. Keep in mind that these are ONLY for Google Reader, which is only a small percentage of subscribers (although a...

How would you call SEO for maps - MEO? Posted: 12 Oct 2007 07:55 AM CDT Google LatLong: Community maps in your search results : Starting today, community maps will be available in search results on Google Maps. - Tags: geoweb, google, seo

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Links for 2007-10-14 [del.icio.us] Posted: 15 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Bucardo - multi-master replication for Postgres Bucardo is an asynchronous PostgreSQL replication system, allowing for both multi-master and multi-slave operations. It was developed at Backcountry.com primarily by Greg Sabino Mullane of End Point Corporation. The Spread Toolkit Spread is an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across local and wide area networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and provides highly tuned applicat glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way. A Google Approach to Improving Location Information Accuracy -SEO by the SEA schrep's blog: Mozilla and Mobile People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it.

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Links for2007-10-13 [del.icio.us] Posted: 14 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Why jQuery's Philosophy is etter jQuery versus Prototype

Links for 2007-10-12 [best of my feeds]

Can anyone spot a recurring pattern? Posted: 12 Oct 2007 07:38 AM CDT Let's think about this for a while and reflect on what I would call a groundswell of insights : Apple Dashboard Widgets are made of HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Opera Widgets are made of a little XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Yahoo Widgets are made of a...

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Links for 2007-10-12 [del.icio.us] Posted: 13 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Collection: Design Patterns This collection captures findings of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows from across the web.

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Links for 2007-10-11 [del.icio.us] Posted: 12 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT Ruby Sunday: Scaling Twitter and Other Lessons from Mr. Cook Comatose Rails micro CMS The Cafes » Why REST Failed Representational State Transfer (REST) is the explicit architecture of HTTP and the World Wide Web. It is a well-designed, well thought out system that enables scalable applications that service millions of users. It is also a simpler system that enables resources_controller Rails plugin to facilitate inheritance and DRYness in your resources controllers. Cerberus: Home Cerberus is a lightweight and easy-to-use Continuous Builder software for Ruby. Amazon Architecture | High Scalability Learn about how Amazon organizes their teams around services, the CAP theorem of building scalable systems, how they deploy software, and a lot more. Main Page - SystemImager SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of Linux machines. You can even update from one Linux release version to Ganglia Monitoring System » What is Ganglia? Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. memcached: a distributed memory object caching system memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Ruby MemCache Client - Trac This is a Ruby client library for memcached, a high-performance distributed memory cache. RubyForge: uformats: Project Info A library for parsing various microformats under Ruby: hReview; hCard; hCalendar; rel-tag; rel-license; include-pattern. Flickr Architecture | High Scalability GoogleTalk Architecture | High Scalability Making Rails Go Vroom With a few simple changes we were able to reduce rendering time from 7.8 seconds to 0.92 seconds. What we found should be generally applicable to all Rails applications. Continuous Integration Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build CruiseControl.rb CruiseControl.rb is a continuous integration tool. Its basic purpose in life is to alert members of a software project when one of them checks something into source control that breaks the build. paperplanes. Continuous Integration for Ruby and Rails Being a big fan of CruiseControl I looked for similar solutions for the Rails and Ruby market. There are several tools you can use, and they have several ups and downs.

Links for 2007-10-10 [del.icio.us]

Links for 2007-10-10 [del.icio.us] Posted: 11 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT XML.com: Putting REST on Rails RESTful Rails Development Tutorial

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Links for 2007-10-09 [del.icio.us] Posted: 10 Oct 2007 12:00 AM CDT blog.crowdedweb When prototype.js is Inappropriate When prototype.js is Inappropriate RSpec-1.0.8: Home RSpec is a framework which provides programmers with a Domain Specific Language to describe the behaviour of Ruby code with readable, executable examples that guide you in the design process and serve well as both documentation and tests. Cross-site request forgery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cross-site request forgery, also known as one click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (Sea-Surf) or XSRF, is a kind of malicious exploit of websites. Although this type of attack has similarities to cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site sc Active Reload: Your requests are safe with us the CSRF Killer plugin for Rails OAuth — An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. mofo - a ruby microformat parser rfacebook - facebook api for ruby and rails RFacebook is a Ruby interface to the Facebook API. And now, with the RFacebook on Rails plugin, you can have even more Facebook goodness in Rails. Plugins - xmlcache - Agile Web Development This is a simple plugin that allows Rails to support XML fragment caching within RXML documents. The system is built using the standard caching mechanism built into Rails—similar to cache_erb_fragment. Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules My team at O'Reilly Research has been crunching the numbers on the rise of Facebook as application platform, and we've released a new report today, entitled simply The Facebook Application Platform.

Links for 2007-10-09 [best of my feeds]

Under the radar : Matt Biddulph Posted: 09 Oct 2007 05:27 AM CDT Coding on the Shoulders of Giants by Matt Biddulph of Dopplr fame. Great presentation - both visually and content-wise - probably the first "official" presentation given at a conference with references to OAuth. Many great insights on technology...

Links for 2007-10-09 [best of my feeds]

Seesmic vs. Hictu: a lesson in bootstrapping Posted: 08 Oct 2007 12:08 PM CDT Loic Le Meur's new company, Seesmic, was given raves by Mike Arrington this morning. That drew out Luca Filigheddu who asked whether Arrington was talking about his service, Hictu. Now Hictu had remained off of my radar screen until he made that...