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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 […]

Plugin gem dependencies in your environment.rb

One good thing in recent Ruby on Rails are Gem Dependencies! However.. they are very frustrating when you need gems in your plugins. This gives you a Catch 22..
The rake task to install gems:

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sudo rake gems:install # Use sudo! See notes below

gives you an error like:

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sudo rake gems:install
(in /your/rails/dir)
rake aborted!
no such file to load — […]

Flickr version control

Sometimes your version control creates its own code
Here’s Flickr’s site today showing some revision conflict code

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.joopp.com%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fflickr-version-control%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Flickr+version+control’;
addthis_pub = ‘joopp’;

YelloYello in Challenger50

Tomorrow the ChallengerDay 2008 takes place in Hilversum.
We’re in the Top10 with YelloYello.. thanks everybody for voting!

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.joopp.com%2F2008%2F11%2F05%2Fyelloyello-in-challenger50%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘YelloYello+in+Challenger50′;
addthis_pub = ‘joopp’;

New release of YelloYello Platform

So finally another update of the YelloYello Platform. We’ve got the following updates and new features for you:
Google Earth
By introducing KML views on both all places and all searches you can now view all YelloYello results in Google Earth!

Better Microformat compatibility
Besides our RSS feed with GeoRSS we now have better support for Microformats. Previously we […]

Ruby on Rails presentation

We did a Ruby on Rails introduction presentation at Peak-IT just yesterday. The presentation can be found on Slideshare (see below).

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.joopp.com%2F2008%2F09%2F18%2Fruby-on-rails-presentation%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Ruby+on+Rails+presentation’;
addthis_pub = ‘joopp’;

Wii heeft er gewonnen? (Who has won?)

So.. from now on up we do not work at the office anymore. Ewout has won a Nintendo Wii in a contest of NXS Internet. Very cool.. everyday Mariokart

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.joopp.com%2F2008%2F09%2F03%2Fwii-heeft-er-gewonnen-who-has-won%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Wii+heeft+er+gewonnen%3F+%28Who+has+won%3F%29′;
addthis_pub = ‘joopp’;

YelloYello in lijst van 33 hete Nederlandse Web 2.0 bedrijven

YelloYello staat in de lijst/video van 33 hete Web 2.0 bedrijven. Erg leuke video (dank aan de makers!).
We staan op de 32e plaats (van de 33).. maar dat komt omdat onze naam YelloYello is en nou eenmaal niet AlloAllo kwam ik achter
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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YelloYello now available for iPhone

We’ve just launched a first version of our iPhone site. It does not include all features of YelloYello.com yet but has a nice iPhone interface. Check out the following movie to get an idea. For the Dutch Press Release check here.

The above is a link to YouTube since the movie has annotations that are not […]

Trainstations & ATMs now in YelloYello

You’ve just eaten a fantastic dinner in a restaurant. It cost a lot of you precious euros but it was worth it. You ask the waiter where you can pay with your PIN-pas (yes, that’s what we Dutchmen use). The waiter says you can’t pay with PIN… OUCH!
Two options:

Go and do the dishes..
Search for the […]