I’ve tried more than once to jump onto the Google App Engine bandwagon to no avail. Unfortunately it’s preview nature is acting to frustrate any attempt I make build something I’m happy with. Just some thoughts so far: No Direction – It’s been dumped into the ether with no solid direction. No recommended method or [...]
After the recent turmoil I thought it may be worth pointing out a few alternatives to the Rails framework. So here’s 4 Ruby-based web framework alternatives for starters: Ramaze – Has no known bugs and claims excellent stability. Thems fighting words! Camping – A ‘micro-framework’, this is incredibly lightweight offering limited features but great efficiency [...]
If you’ve never heard of Programmable Web then I suggest you take a look. Its a huge directory of all the major APIs on the web open for development. They’ve decided to award the Best API of the Year to the Facebook site. It won based on its openness, audience, money-making potential, viral features, modularity [...]
We’ve been having some attachment problems at work recently since shifting over to using IMAP on our Google Apps for Domains service. After some trawling it seems the solution is a relatively simple one: Change these two values in Thunderbird‘s advanced configuration editor to “false“. mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks mail.imap.fetch_by_chunks
I was playing around with the Google Desktop Search API again at the weekend and threw together a gadget that queries the TheyWorkForYou.com UK MP database. It basically enables you to gather all sorts of interesting info about various MPs, Peers, debates and committees. This gadget is just a simple interface so you can enter [...]
UPDATED: As of Jul 10th 2009 Open Source seems to be exploding all over the place at the moment and with online services increasingly jumping on the free offerings its been fantastic for developers wanting to host, manage, flaunt and communicate their projects online. Here’s a rundown of 6 free SVN hosting and project management [...]
I’m a recent convert to Googles Tech Talks and I’ve been totally taken in by it! Its a huge selection of posted videos searchable on Google Video of lectures, demonstrations and talks from a wide array of difefrent people. All rated and commented on by the community. What’s also great is its got RSS so [...]
I installed Firebug a long while back and didn’t think much of it. Granted I never read the docs or even the description. I like to just try things out and if I don’t figure it in 10 seconds flat it normally gets ignored. Unfortunately that meant I missed an absolute goldmine and looked a [...]
When I first looked at YUI when I was on the hunt for a simple yet powerful Ajax library I cast it aside in favour of Dojo. Which back then I preffered due to its tag parsing as opposed to pure JS implementation of its various widgets. However, now I’m getting a bit more into [...]
I’ve seen a number of posts recently of people wanting to set up or upgrade Rails/Ruby on their shared hosting accounts. My blog is still on the ASO shared hosting but I’m slowlyt moving everything across to my Rimu Hosting VPS. I’ve been using the RimuHosting VPS plan for about a month now. What I [...]
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