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Google AJAX Feed API “With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.” (tags: ajax api atom google rss syndication) From enclosure to co-operative 2.0? | Tom Chance’s website Still thinking about this one – “Web 2.0 is a far cry from this idea of real cultural freedom - it creates a proprietary space for centralisation, limited expression and exploitation, albeit far more open than the traditional media.” ...

Sneaky Abstractions: RESTful XHTML Plugin making it very easy to return xhtml to those user agents that want it. (tags: contentnegotiation plugins rubyonrails xhtml) Don’t even leave a footprint - Yodel Anecdotal Yahoo have announced they’re going to try and go carbon neutral this year. Glad that it sounds like they’re attempting to reduce their footprint as well as offset what’s left (tags: carbonneutral environment yahoo)

Music Ontology Specification Good to see this project getting its own domain and a wiki. Wish I had more time to follow things like this. (tags: music musicontology rdf) hCalendar profile for hKit I need to parse some microformats in PHP, and obviously wanted to use Drew’s hkit. Unfortunately all the links I could find to this hcalendar profile were broken, but I managed to track it down. It doesn’t (yet) support hcard nested within hcal ...

Within a large project that uses a lot of partials to load in page components, there are a lot of potential points of failure. Add in a developer new to the project, or a front-end developer pressed into service working directly on your views, and the chances of someone editing a partial without realising it’s used in several more places than they’d noticed are fairly high. And if the partial hits an error, the exception will roll all the way up the chain and the end-user will see your 500 page. ...

What Highrise has meant to Rails (Loud Thinking) Interesting to hear where some of the innovations in rails are coming from and how they’re being used. (tags: 37signals rubyonrails) ActiveScaffold :: Welcome The successor to ajaxscaffold, for generating admin UIs, which we’re using fairly heavily in GOOD. Not yet sure what the differences are. (tags: activescaffold ajaxscaffold cms rubyonrails)

I’ve been casually following updates over at NetSquared (“remixing the web for social change”) for a while but hadn’t really focussed on their Innovation Award, which is seeking projects that use the web to make a social impact. The 20 top projects selected by their readers will be invited to a conference in San Jose at the end of May, and a lucky few will receive funding from the NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund. ...

the { buckblogs :here }: Faking cursors in ActiveRecord A neat trick for when you need to perform an ActiveRecord operation on a very large dataset and don’t want to use too much RAM (tags: activerecord cursors)

O’Reilly Radar > Google Launches MyMaps There’s been a flurry of announcements in the mapping space again this week. Looks like mapping mashups are no longer solely the domain of developers and ’local search’ is becoming a little more semantic. Maybe next google could announce they’re parsing m (tags: georss google kml maps) RubyForge: ruby-geonames: Project Info Ruby support for the Geonames Web Services. At some point I must try this out. (tags: geography geonames) phpsh – an interactive shell for php ...

Duncan Beevers » History » Simile Timeline Rails Helper part 1 Rails helpers for building timelines with the simile library (tags: rubyonrails simile timeline visualisation) Control.Modal : Unobtrusive CSS Modal Windows and Lightboxes for Prototype Looks like a fairly nice lightbox implementation, but the server’s been unresponsive so I’ve not been able to confirm my suspicion that it might be quite lightweight (tags: javascript lightbox modal rubyonrails) Stars compose new ways to use music | Pop | Guardian Unlimited Music ...

InfoQ: Ruby on Rails case study: ChangingThePresent.org Good case study/review of a large rails project (tags: brucetate management performance rubyonrails scaling) Mac Rumors: New iTunes Features: My Alerts and Complete My Album Really interesting that Apple are trying to provide incentives for people to buy full albums. Is this a focus on the album as an art form, a result of pressure from labels, or simply an attempt to maximise profits? (tags: albums digitalmusic distribution itunes)