Blog posts

Writing a Book | English Rules Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer are working on a book about jquery (tags: book javascript jquery)

The thing I probably enjoy most about working with Rails is that it makes it easier to put logic in the right place than not to. To get back in the swing of blogging after a light couple of weeks, I thought it might be useful to run through an example of how that’s worked out for me recently. From time to time I’ve been working on an application that will contain a database of musicians. To be able to add new musicians quickly I’ve been using: ...

Graticule and acts_as_geocodable, which I wrote about here, has a new release with a couple of updates worthy of note. First up is the addition of new geocoders which provide better coverage of locations outside North America, and second is IP address to co-ordinates conversion similar to that in GeoKit. Brandon has the lowdown, and I’ve updated the Comparison chart on the wiki.

Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 | Book Details (tags: books microformats)

Lift Web Framework I’ve begun considering what language and/or framework to learn next. I doubt it’ll be Scala, but this does sound interesting. (tags: frameworks lift scala) Dean Edwards: Yet Another JavaScript Library Without Documentation “This library doesn’t do anything interesting like script.aculo.us or jQuery. It only does standards. But it is my belief that if you build on standards in the right way, you can help future-proof your scripted pages.” (tags: base2 dom javascript) Sam Ruby: Which Way Is Up? ...

Guardian Unlimited | These invasive species are ruining the retail ecosystem “Like it or not (and it is something about which most policy makers and economists are in deep denial), weakly regulated markets give free rein to economic invasive species and hence tend towards monopoly.” (tags: economics planning retail sprawl urbanism) Anne Lamott’s amazing grace | Salon Life (tags: annelamott salon)

catapult magazine : Holy Week : A day to remember Another little piece I wrote (tags: byme catapult cino theology) GOOD Magazine - Sterling On Cities Bruce Sterling offers a video looking at Belgrade, and the future of cities. (tags: urbanism)

ongoing · JRuby Servlets Sounds like running ruby apps within a servlet is becoming a possibility, with good results (tags: jruby ruby servley) GeoRSS blog » Blog Archive » Google supports GeoRSS! “GeoRSS, in all its glory, is now supported by Google Maps. Support for KML has been vastly improved too.” (tags: geography georss google maps)

Joe Queenan watches Ingmar Bergman’s entire oeuvre Like the experience of watching 38 Bergman films in a row, the article is a little repetitive, but worth the time (tags: bergman film) Daytrotter on Neon Bible “Their stateliness and funereal attire could be seen as comically serious, especially as the band builds song suites and concept albums and the such. But at the heart of the Arcade Fire is a palpable sense of spontaneity and fun, some of which comes from ...

fame, narcissism and MySpace (tags: myspace socialnetworking)