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My new mysites blog!		31 Dec 07
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I am experimenting a bit with our latest service .. the blog. Written by Mike in one hour, still lacking many features, but hey, we want to be on the cutting edge of disaster :-). mysites blog

Shiny polar cloud		11 Dec 07
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I came across this great article on Slashdot.

Rack talk by Christian Neukirchen

06 Dec 07

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We use rack at personifi. Highly recommended simple elegant and fast!

Developing general web frameworks and frameworkless web applications is difficult because lots of different ways to connect to web servers need to be implemented. Since Ruby is popular for writing web applications, we try to address this problem by proposing a lightweight abstraction mapping HTTP requests onto a simple Ruby API. This makes it possible to combine all kinds of web servers with different web applications without further change. Furthermore, our solution enables new functionality by combining and composing web applications, as well as better testability. Talk given at the European Ruby Conference (Euruko) 2007.

Slides chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2007/chneukirchen-euruko2007-introducing-rack.pdf

Article chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2007/neukirchen07introducingrack.pdf

Dryad talk		16 Nov 07
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Dryad is the Microsoft copy from map-reduce. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhE5JCP2Ak

Seuss technical writing		28 Sep 07
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Enjoy: web.mit.edu/adorai/www/seuss-technical-writing.html

Yoko Kanno piano solo cowboy bebop		16 Sep 07
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Enjoy :-) Yoko kanno piano solo Cowboy Bebop Uploaded by Nomyo

Euruko: 5th European ruby conference, Vienna, Nov 10-11

12 Sep 07

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I am very happy to announce Euruko 2007 in Vienna. A big thanks to Vienna university that gave us rooms for free! I wish the German universities would do that, too.

Please add yourself to the wiki. The pages are still not yet updated: www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/europeRuby/tiki.cgi?c=v&p=Euruko07

See you all here!

The original announcement by Stephan Kaemper

 Hi all,

 after a few weeks of struggling to find a location we finally found a
 place. In fact we also found a new date.
 Sorry for any inconveniences all this back and forth may have caused.

 Euruko 2007 will be located in Vienna, Austia on Saturday & Sunday
 10th and 11th November 2007.

 As before this will also be announced at http://phvalues.wordpress.com
 as well as the Euruko wiki (which we're using  this year, too). The wiki
 is at http://www.euruko.com

 If you're planning to attend or to give a presentation, please use
 the wiki to register and announce your presentation.

 See you in Vienna - or may be in Berlin next week

 Stephan

DE: AutopolicenPool -- Gemeinsam guenstiger versrichern

10 Sep 07

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Autopolicenpool ist eine Railsanwendung die euch zu einer billigeren Autoversicherung verhilft. Viel Spass!

www.autopolicenpool.de

Hal Fulton on the Future of Ruby		09 Sep 07
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Slides of Hal Fulton’s talk in Austin. Nice pics :-) rubyhacker.com/lsrc/

Amazing photo from Cairo

03 Sep 07

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Found via digg on flickr. One can see the pyramids in the background.

the link: bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=436684787&bg=white

Oh yeah :-).		03 Sep 07
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.. on the crazyness of the Microsoft WGA anti-piracy scheme. ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070901

Ferret, utf-8

02 Sep 07

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Ben Krause posted this to ferret-talk.

 ENV['LC_CTYPE'] = 'en_US.UTF-8'
 Ferret.locale = "en_US.UTF-8"

 see http://bugs.omdb.org/browser/trunk/config/environment.rb

 searching for utf-8 works great, i've indexed characters
 in german, english, asian languages, hebrew and other..

Got API.com		29 Aug 07
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Thanks to Hal for passing this useful link: gotapi.com It’s one of the few links that made it into the expensive real estate of my browser toolbar.

Bariloche webcam		14 Aug 07
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It snowed last night.

Strange Maps		11 Aug 07
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Enjoy the unusual maps. A good source for ideas. strangemaps.wordpress.com/

Sorry for the long silence ..

11 Aug 07

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Hey all. No news is good news. We are simply superbusy on a bunch of stealth projects. An update will come soon. Stefan Kaempfer, Mike Lee and many others do a great job organizing Euruko07, so another european ruby conference is on the way.

Here is one update I can talk about .. my hair makeover done by my beautiful wife. That is what I look like right now. Hal called it an "ugly baby" :-).

Enjoy summer!

Google scalability conference videos		07 Jul 07
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Enjoy! :-) bluxte.net/blog/2007-07/06-39-54.html

Blackbox: your datacenter in a container

24 Jun 07

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For a project we are currently looking at datacenters and we all agree that the idea of getting all the equipement stuffed into a container is a useful one:-).

www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp

www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jun/23/stanford_center_is_first_blackbox_recipient.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=svLdboZdfQ0

Hello Ruby, I'm Erlang		07 Jun 07
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Ruby-Erlang bridge. Really nice to have and no surprise, as Erlang is fascinating ever more ruby enthusiasts. Always nice to use the right tool for the right job. nullstyle.com/2007/5/9/erlectricity-hi-ruby-i-m-erlang

Free Book: Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby		26 Apr 07
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Great free book by Brune R. Preiss. www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/