Supersonic Feet

The official Rails blog has the announcement that Rails 2.0 is done and great news that is too. Now I just need to find the time to eventually catch up on all the changes and start playing with it!

Brian Oberkirch has been on a bit of a blitz of great posts about social networking today (and I'm not just saying that because he picked up on bragster supporting hCard import yesterday). The one that I really liked is from "simple to obvious", in which Brian has a go at the propensity people have for ...

Having mentioned I wanted to implement proper hCard support on bragster.com, the opportunity arose much sooner than expected. Having played with the mofo Ruby gem over a weekend, it became obvious we could implement not just hCards on our profiles (which is a very quick thing to do), but that we could follow Satisfaction's lead in ...

Yeah, so I just lost almost every file in my web root. I'm not quite sure whether it was me or a script I ran, but everything under the web root for this site (luckily bar the wp-content directory) got deleted. I briefly toyed with taking the opportunity to switch the blog to Mephisto as I ...

Tantek Çelik's slides from his talk on Social Network Portability are a very good, quick read as an introduction to supporting social network portability on your own site/service using microformats. The slides include real, practical demonstrations of how it can be done and having made a bit of a start (i.e. not a good-enough start) on ...