We believe the migration to Google App Engine will result in improved stability, so we made the hard call to invest all of our effort in finishing up the port rather than do what was needed to keep up our old servers up to date [...]
(taken from Jaikido Blog)
Archive for May, 2008
Jaiku tries to migrate to the Google App Engine
Google Health or "Sharing your genital diseases with the world"
Google Health and its sharing concept. Another service that i would never use because of privacy concerns. But if you are eager to use it you should:
- create an extra google account for this
- always delete the Google cookies after and before using this
- use a temporary email address when registering for the Google account (e.g. meltmail.com)
Firefox3
Wheew! I like the new Firefox3 RC. Especially the smooth integration into MacOSX. It was always frustrating to see this ugly old design of Firefox < 3. But now:
Great. And a lot of cool bookmark features with Places.
Like you can see, there is also a delicious Add-on available: http://del.icio.us/extensions/firefox/delicious.xpi
idleaf: identity management
idleaf.com is a nice identity management system. Just created my own identity some days ago. :)
manual of the day… Use soundex strings with Ruby
Use Soundex strings with Ruby
To create soundex strings in Ruby which you can then use for example in MySQL queries (see MySQL manual) can be easily created using the Text library (http://rubyforge.org/projects/text).
Install it using gem:
sudo gem install Text
Include it using…
require 'text'
…and use it for example in this way:
Text::Soundex.soundex('Hello world')
Standardizing rails flash messages
:notice for positive feedback (action successful, etc)
:message for neutral feedback (reminders, etc)
:warning for negative feedback (action unsuccessful, error encountered, etc)
(via DZone)
