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More social media media..

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Social media a nice 2.0 presentation

A very nice presentation on Social Media!

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Location aware browsers

Yahoo’s Fire Eagle was the first step towards letting websites know where you are.. but slowly this is getting mainstream. FireFox 3.5 has this build-in called Location-Based Browsing.
“Firefox gathers information about nearby wireless access points and your computer’s IP address. Then Firefox sends this information to the one and only default geolocation service provider, all […]

Logic vs. ActsAs

There recently came along some new Rails plugins: SearchLogic and AuthLogic. Both are coming from Ben Johnson (BinaryLogic). He seems to have some more logic..
SearchLogic makes it easy to do search and ordering for your models. There is a nice and shiny new version (v2) .. only thing is that it has some bugs.
AuthLogic makes […]

Hyves API wrapper put on GitHub

Since the Ruby Hyves API wrapper is not being maintained (at least not by me :)).. I put it on GitHub to be able to do the maintenance more easily.
See:  http://github.com/joost/hyves_api

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Studenten maken iPhone WebApp op basis van YelloYello API

Het team bestaande uit Martijn Willemse en andere studenten van de Hogeschool Rotterdam heeft afgelopen woensdag hun iPhone WebApp gepresenteerd. De WebApp maakt gebruik van de YelloYello API en kan alles vinden wat handig is tijdens het uitgaan!
Voor iedereen met een iPhone is de applicatie te vinden op: http://www.me2i.nl/mug. Zie onderstaand filmpje en foto’s voor […]

Not the biggest design ripoff.. copyleft..

A while ago I read this article on TheNextWeb showing a site copying the complete idea of an OSX piece of software. The writer was hating it.. but in fact this happens all the time..all over the internet!
One example is the technology blog TechCrunch vs. the technology blog TheNextWeb. Look at the sites:

both white’ish (TheNextWeb […]

Google maps window.jstiming error

I just found out some of our sites using Google Maps stopped working (at least the Google Maps part) because of a window.jstiming javascript error. Now…. what do you do? Check on twitter.com if other people had the same problem.. and yes.. at least one was.
So now you know it is not YOU that is […]

The BOM, UTF-8 and Rails

Some nasty things can happen to your design if your files are saved with a Byte-Order Mark (BOM) character at the beginning. We had a view that was totally f*cked up in Firefox by this. The view was simple:

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Some layout around a
<%= yield %>
or around a
<%= @content_for_layout %>
and a secret character gets put in.. it’s […]

Download those databases..

What I did know was that you could download wikipedia and also wikitravel. But you can even download the IMDB to some extend. It’s all in text format.. but it IS available.
I could not find a (Ruby) script that imports all data in a usable database structure however.. anybody got an idea?
[update]
I found IMDbPY that […]