Live coverage of #railsconf by @igrigorik

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IronRuby on rails: only the sql driver was needed to get the stack running… Otherwise everything is the same, and works as expected at 05/30/2008 05:58 PM

Multicore FUD talk: first impression, stop reading from your notes… Room drifting asleep. #railsconf at 05/30/2008 05:50 PM

Back to pen and paper @ railsconf. Wewt. at 05/30/2008 05:45 PM

@timbray more twitter coverage of #railsconf here.. Courtesy of dead laptop. at 05/30/2008 06:31 PM

Multicore talk: plugged Switchpipe by @peterc - mix and match cluster management at 05/30/2008 06:29 PM

Engineyard: ebb is not production ready; don’t worry about the app server, should be the least of your worries. at 05/30/2008 07:15 PM

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what GigaOm is talking about on Twitter.?

Last 10 tweets from gigaom

Amazon PPV Streaming Coming Soon [NewTeeVee]: Amazon will be unveiling a new video pay-per-view streaming .. http://tinyurl.com/6m7wz3 at 05/28/2008 10:20 PM

Apple Ships OS X 10.5.3 [WebWorkerDaily]: Today Apple released another free minor update for users of OS X.. http://tinyurl.com/55ox9d at 05/28/2008 10:20 PM

RedLasso: No Ceasing and Desisting for Us, Thanks [NewTeeVee]: RedLasso, the television clipping service, .. http://tinyurl.com/3hwult at 05/29/2008 08:42 PM

Pinch Media Offers Metrics for iPhone Developers [GigaOM]: Just as any online content producer or web site.. http://tinyurl.com/42mg8g at 05/29/2008 08:42 PM

OStatic Buffer Overflow….. [OStatic]: Novell has delivered its Q2 financial results. The company reporte.. http://tinyurl.com/63pfjx at 05/30/2008 12:13 AM

Forbes: Google Bought YouTube, Now Trying to Make Money on It! [NewTeeVee]: Forbes posted a magazine story.. http://tinyurl.com/3zdkvf at 05/30/2008 01:49 AM

Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools [WebWorkerDaily]: There’s a new entrant in the online draw.. http://tinyurl.com/6jkc47 at 05/30/2008 03:47 PM

Open Thread - Do You Have a Backup? [WebWorkerDaily]: While we do talk a lot about data storage and securi.. http://tinyurl.com/3klqff at 05/30/2008 05:18 PM

Asus Laptops to Offer Linux-Based Instant-On Features [OStatic]: Asus, which has seen healthy and growing .. http://tinyurl.com/6zud7q at 05/30/2008 05:18 PM

The New iPhone’s New Winner [GigaOM]: Depending which iPhone rumor you believe, the 3G version of iPhone h.. http://tinyurl.com/55v4g7 at 05/30/2008 05:18 PM

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Interesting stuff happening around RoR world.

Last 5 tweets from rornews

http://tinyurl.com/468lgy custom db migrator (rails):Announcing Custom Migrator 0.1 release at 05/29/2008 01:40 AM

http://tinyurl.com/67ny5q Twitter API: User IDs at 05/29/2008 06:20 PM

http://tinyurl.com/6f6vrf This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008) at 05/30/2008 02:00 AM

http://tinyurl.com/5dbdtt Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 01:20 AM

http://tinyurl.com/6qkdpa Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 04:40 AM

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jQuery Predicate Selectors - How to

Found a site that has crisp explanation of how to use jQuery predicate selectors.

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1003-Cool-jQuery-Predicate-Selectors.htm

Primarily this should satisfy initial curiosity of a developer who wants run fancy regex on jQuery filters and selectors to fetch elements out of HTML body. Website talks about basic "contains" "starts with" and "ends with" selectors and examples of using it.

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Have you ever seen golden gate bridge like this?

Its beautiful out here Sent from my iPhone

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Google AppEngine disappoints Twisternow ?

When Google AppEngine launched it was match made in heaven between developer/entrepreneurs + launch of their dream startup/project. It is true up to certain extent no doubt about that. Apart from being a great platform for developers to jump start their idea which took them weeks if not months before, It is not considering apps like Twisternow for rapid scalability in terms of request/user/bandwidth quota.

As per Techcrunch , AppEngine is designed for

Absorb spikes in traffic. When a web app surges in popularity, the sudden increase in traffic can be overwhelming for applications of all sizes, from startups to large companies that find themselves rearchitecting their databases and entire systems several times a year. With automatic replication and load balancing, Google App Engine makes it easier to scale from one user to one million by taking advantage of Bigtable and other components of Google’s scalable infrastructure.

Now where is the fun in having your app on AppEngine , if they can not adjust to popular application's growing demand in a true sense. So how did it help Twisternow

They wrote a code (in python), deployed on AppEngine - Great!
They get to have their own domain instead of twisternow.appengine.com - Great !
People started noticing their app and liked the simple idea of Twisternow - Super great!
More and more people come to your site - Super super great!
Then what ? - Over quota from AppEngine - Not so great!.

So for Twisternow guys all they got is initial ramp up , but as the message says they are probably moving their boxes somewhere else. It would be good to see if Google AppEngine can have few intelligent rules built in based on applications popularity/page views they toggle the quota, probably have app owners pay some money to scale smoothly without hitting against the quota wall. I'm sure that will be a preferred option for application owners, rather than thinking of

new infrastructure
time associated with the move
The most important - Impact of user mind share shifting somewhere else. As this is a key factor always for new startups, competitors launch every minute.

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Sky is falling -is it really

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Google FriendConnect Preview from googledevelopers.

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Email still has plenty of juice left.

"Oh! I have so much data, I want to protect every bit of it and I want users to come to me everyday" said Social network sites when they gathered millions of users. For well known reasons social media world is keeping the tremendous amount of valuable data trapped within its arena. This is no secret to savvy users of all these different services. So we see initiatives like DataPortability and OpenSocial picking up good traction. Facebook, MySpace are doing this but taking careful steps as they have a lot tied with their data which they want to protect as much as they want. Users want their data to be portable and they want it quick. On the other end we have "email" which is loved my billions from its inception thru today and it is still not used very well in the context of social communication and messaging except basic notification service within every major social media sites.

There is a huge gap between email world and social media world as far as data distribution is concerned. Email should go beyond "Notify me when I have a new message or comment" notion. Wouldn't it be helpful to get all that email power close to social media community in terms of outreach, sharing and connection.

As per About.com

183 billion messages per day means more than 2 million emails are sent every second. About 70% to 72% (or between 128 and 132 billion) of them might be spam and viruses. The genuine emails are sent by around 1.2 billion email users.

Recently as per Techcrunch on the other topic very interesting numbers came around usage/how much time users spend on different desktop applications. If you relate these numbers with email.

In top 10 , users spend more time on 4 email applications (Outlook, Gmail, mail, Thunderbird)
In Top 3, users spend time on 2 email applications.

So we love email here at MessageDance and believe that there are enough innovative and intriguing things can be built around it using users current attention span and exposing them to the interesting content sharing model across social media. To facilitate this, in last few weeks we have released nice little features like

Sharing and blog right from Amazon, Google Reader, Digg, YouTube, Facebook and iPhone
Tag messages as you write them and make your messages more social.
Multi email support : Add multiple email addresses to the account. With this you can blog right from your blackberry when you are on road and go back to office and blog from your outlook.
User's entourage : you can see what your friends and your friend's friends are talking about.

We are working on lot more in coming weeks.

As we let the time and great ideas build the gap between, so called "legacy email" and emerging social media, we will run into creative ways of using our daily life which is trapped in the wonderful world of email.

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