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So far we have a few useful principles to follow during web and generally software development. Everyone remembers the DRY, KISS and all that. Let me add my own little gem to the list. It's called MY and focuses on modern or old source control. It's so obvious that I'm sure you already aware of it. So here it goes:MY: Merge Yours!Basically it means that if you collaborate in a process, you the

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This will be quick. My favorite designer recently rewamped his site, Stuff and Nonsense. I spotted a few obvious things that you can steal from the CSS but just realized a good UX idea over there. If you click a link on that site, a small effect happens emulating a button press. I think it can be useful on slow sites as an immediate after-click feedback to the user: "Hold on, we are working on

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I'm playing with a very plain user interface, a form where you can set some data about planning your next trip with your friends. I'm just playing ok? The form contains a few text input elements, selects and a textarea. Nothing special.But recently I've seen a new CSS framework (will give you a link when I find her again, sorry) where all the textual input controls were styled so pointing to a

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I always wanted to interview people that I admire for great ideas and code. Here comes one with Ola Bini. For those who live under a frogs butt Ola Bini is a JRuby developer at ThoughtWorks Studios. He is working on an exciting new language, Ioke. The interview is originally made for the Hungarian developer community site, Weblabor, but I keep this as reference. So here it goes, unedited, juicy :

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It was a great joy to talk about my experiments with JRuby and Google's Appengine, so I decided to share my slides here as well.JRuby on AppengineView more presentations from yaanno.

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Just seen Luis Lavena's posting and his Pledgie fundraising.Luis is a smart and kind Ruby hacker from South America working on a better Windows acceptance and working environment. He brought you the fresh new Ruby installer, a great Rake toolkit and a bunch of stuff that can help you guys bound to the Windows world.Please consider to make a contribution to these projects either with some money or

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I'd like to share two excellent presentations from DjangoCon 2008 that gave me inspirations for the future (see more at Google Developers channel).The first one is held by James Bennett a well known Python/Django hacker.The second one is by James Tauber, master of the Pinax project.I thought I understand OOP and modules but it seems I did not. There are other ways to make a website better. These

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Recently I heard the Heroku buzz from every direction. To put it simply Heroku is a fully (I mean completely fully) managed hosting for your Ruby application. That means you can focus on your app development and forgot the pain of eg. the deployment or platform issues. Use Rails, Sinatra or any other (even your own) framework or just a collection of Ruby scripts that can be hooked up to the Rack

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László Bácsi, a Ruby hacker at Virgo Systems told me that he ran every time into a problem with his experimental Bible Reader app (Hungarian), namely that his CouchDB server doesn't start during the boot sequence.I think I solved this problem by adding a few parameters to the init script. Here is my solution. I installed the svn version of CouchDB on a 64bit Ubuntu server on a VmWare box. I

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Sorry to say that but it is not the JavaScript execution and parsing that makes an ordinary website slow (slow? in what way?). Badly written scripts and advertising hell do that. Of course its nice to see that browsers evolve relatively rapidly but stop here for a moment.Most of the websites contain JavaScript but these are not rich internet applications, they just adding some functional

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Recently I came up with the idea in the title. Before this I couldn't decide who is a racist and why. But I think I'm getting closer:When he/she acts like a racist and talks like a racist, I would call him/her a racist.Next question is what should and must I do?

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I though I'll share the slides on my lightning talk at Budapest Ruby Meetup (nov 2008) so here you go :)Monitoring Rails ApplicationsView more presentations from yaanno. (tags: ruby rails)

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If you have a mid level site built on Drupal CMF, and made a mistake (using user accounts as author nodes) like me, there is still hope.I have around 370 user accounts that refers to virtual authors. Long ago we didn't have nice tools and modules to create virtual author nodes, pages like Wordpress has for author information...Anyways I had to convert these accounts to taxonomy terms and bind the

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Ok, I know, Asimov's laws. But you know what? They are so basic principles that a slight modification could entail great axioms for me. Good for me, good against bad people.#1 A human may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.#2 A human must obey orders given to her/him by her/himself, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.#3 A

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I found a few interesting posts and projects that I'd like to share here.AppMecha is a nice tutorialized blog on starting and developing your projects based on AppEngine. Good tips, thanks.There are dozens of tools and accessories for AppEngine but I found GAEUtilities one very useful.And an other good one. This could help you set up the (missing feature!) cron-like scheduling to your app.

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Let me share you a few steps (considered to be a non-standard way) of building a good little dev environment on Ubuntu Linux.Precautions:1. Again, this is not the way you should build your environment, I just found it useful2. Do not rush and copy paste everything to your console, get used to your terminalTo get Jruby on your box you will need Java JDK. I recommend to use SUN Java but JRuby

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This week end I found myself using Ubuntu installed via Wubi. I admit there are weird things (don't care about Linux is a desktop thingie or not) but it seems OK at the moment. Since I started mungling Ruby and Rails, always wanted a stable (hahah) stack for myself so let me share some ideas.I've chosen JRuby. It is fast enough to work with and/or deploy to production, truly platform independent

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Charles Nutter posted an interesting tweet on a fear from the enterprise world in Ruby/Rails "scene". I think I know this fear 'cos I felt the same seeing all the early sidenotes on Ruby from the Java world. But Ruby people, the best of the Java people are now truly open minded, the JVM has a great scripting interface and give us the power of Java, the servlet and application containers offer

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I'm learning Ruby and I mean it. I decided to write a small lib for scraping websites automatically so created a true Perl-ish class for collection google profiles into a database.I learned a few things that you might interested in. First, ruby scraper.rb stole my console so I had to daemonize the script, or even find a runner library. And I found her, named Daemons, a nice lib to run ruby

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I wrote a tiny and Perl-ish script in Ruby that scans through the publicly available Google Profiles (~150k) ans saves some relevant content to a database. As you may notice you will need some gems (hpricot is essential, while sequel is just for the fun part) and I stoopidly used JRuby for this task. I strongly recommend not to use JRuby here.Update: I really hated the code I wrote for JRuby so I

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Last night I successfully built my own gem from the amazing CouchRest library source - it passed all tests in JRuby and CouchDB 0.9 (svn trunk).Switching from json gem to json-jruby was easy as that: correct the gemspec and the Rakefile. But I ran into a problem that I could avoid if I did not install C Ruby the same box. The problem was the usage of "wrong" shebang in CouchRest so I just simply

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Months ago we talked about a better logging system at the office with one of my colleagues, a Java backend guy. They constantly feel the pain managing the sessions, users and all in an old school system so I started to investigate for a better database in the first place. I did remember to CouchDB as an interesting thingy written in Erlang, a blazingly powerful language, and started playing with

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Last time I tried to use a non-standard Ruby build on my XP box with no luck. Gems broken etc. - the usual pains. So I decided to move back to Linux to be able to develop some Ruby / Merb / Sproutcore code and followed my muse, Aimee. It was fun and joy even with the usual zlib problems that happen on Debian all the time. I just can repeat the Ruby on Debian people chore: - Make sure you have

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Recently I got loads of error messages during the gem update and install processes so I decided to remove the "standard" installer package from my XP box. Of course I wanted to hack on Ruby but trying the latest jRuby came less success: it was a damn slow stuff (DSS for me) and no luck to build merb or any gem on it.Second turn, I tried to build Ruby from source but obviously this is for experts

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My fellow colleauge ran into a problem installing sqlite3-ruby gem on a Windows XP box. In Rails 2 we can use a lightweight database for development, SQLite. As it is a default db option for Rails, I don't see why they do not ship the gem during standard install as a dependency.Anyways, installing SQLite is as easy as that. Go to SQLite downloads page and grab the sqlite-3-xxx.zip and sqlitedll-3

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All approaches, either "pure" css or a script of some kind, rely on the blessed filter legacy property in IE to use transparent PNGs - but sometimes you just run into that wall. Let's see an example (before that you can check this nice example out).With the latter declaration you just allowed to your mouse to access the anchor element under IE6. This is nice any handy but at a time you want your

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It is easy you know. Just set in your css file the background-color property value to trasparent. Hahah, you got it, it will NOT work. An additional property (DOM one) has to be set - and the winner is: allowTransparency. Just set it to true cos IE takes it false by default.As of MSDN this is wrong:The result will be something like this:But if you add allowTransparency="true" property to the

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There is too many. As simple as that. I use Google Reader and have just learned the main topics I'm interested in (not joking - its kinda external reflection, I hear Descartes laughin).Here is the list with the largest item numbers (descending order by interest):- Ruby- Rails- Design- Django- Jobs- General/Personal blogs- Linux/OSS- Photoblogs- Bioinformatics/SciencesBut! Thanks to the growing

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Recently I started experimenting with Flex. I'm a web developer (front end engineer) so I'm not good in animation or robust server side languages - I'm in between. Anyways I like Ruby and Rails as well. Adobe and Flash were the evil in my eyes - but now, now it seems exciting.Flex is for building Rich Internet Applications, and it is good in it. Rails is a framework written in Ruby and is for

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Yesterday we finished the implementation of our core services (flight and hotel search) for Veosearch, "a search engine financing projects towards Sustainable Development through your online searches.Every search generates advertisement revenues. 50% of these revenues are distributed to the charities presented on [the] site." (Quote from "How does it work?")We added a CO2 emission tab that helps

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András Bártházi reported on Twitter Netvibes published her core libraries with LGPL licence on Netvibes.org. I'm interested in Widget platforms so I checked out the full source.I guess it is a profitable way of generating more hype and traffic around Netvibes and hope more businesses will follow. Good luck and thanks N!

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Well it was not so funny like the title of this post (Open Source Software Experience Week End). I wanted to replace my MS Windows XP to any Linux dist I can get after an annoying incident (won't go into details).First I tried my favorite Debian with a jump from Etch to Lenny. It took 1 complete hackathon day without success; ffs a single lib can kill this aptitude upgrade! (It was docbook-xml...

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I left 'em. Spokeo is a contact/friend lifestream tracking system (my personal definition) where you can see your friends updates on eg. FaceBook, Flickr, YouTube etc. It is amazing.I think there was a misplaced and badly designed UI where the contact import happened. It said "here you can get in touch with your X contacts" (X was Gmail for me) - or something like this. After the contact import

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I'd say we have the fastest hotel search engine on earth. Really. Go give it a try eg. on liligo.uk. Csaba did a great work on it and we have a blazingly fast processing and display model on the market. Well done lad.

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I'm sure it is not new but I just recognized this kind of approach to ask people to turn off their ad blocking system. I got the message. I was looking for a Linux OCR application and finally came up with SeeingWithSound.com website that help blind or visually impaired people to feel more comfortable on the net. The site quality is poor but idea is awesome.To turn back to my question, I'd say yes

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I attended this nice event this year again. The agenda was like a good meal with various pieces.First, I've seen Ferenc Szalai's keynote on open identity management strategies. He told me some news about Microsoft's strategy and in general it was interesting. Smart comments appeared.Márton Elek's presentation on Google Web Toolkit was smart and nice but nothing more. The attendees were almost all

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It's GTD. Yes, I guess it is. After you did free free your mind, checked all to-do items, planned your next actions - what will happen? Nothing. You consumed all your time getting organized. GTD was about to free your life doing nothing but enjoy your time being here.

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Not surprisingly I use specific websites for "stress testing" browsers on my low end pc. A good pick is ESPN. Every new element, especially flash and heavy ajax loaded content eat my cpu. It is almost always on 100% when hitting a web page.This is not OK. So I've chosen Safari as primary browser for everyday life accompanied with a proxy that filters out web junk.Still not good enough!Decided to

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They made it again. I realized Google offers flight results in a tiny form.Update: this issue reported long long ago. These forms visible under .com only!Is here a deal behind the scene? I'm sure about this. All search engines has special gateways prepared for google. You can sniff it out easily. How will this affect the travel search market?

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Xavier Casellato, a fellow colleague at Liligo, will appear on Web Conference Hungary. His note been introduced as follows:"Who has never juggled with "Business (guys') change requests" and faced the rigidity of compiled languages? Ride Rhino with Java and increase your reactivity by turning your application into a highly flexible one."I'm excited with this Rhino stuff. It is a relatively fast

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Recently I do hesitate on chosing Safari 3 as my primary browser at home on my Windows box. A big minus was this browser cant support externa plugins like Mozilla or even Opera. As a normal user, a daily reader of the big WWW I definitely need an ad filter. I have a really slow PC:With this loose configuration flash stuff and huge ads simply eat the memory, bring the CPU to 100% So to say, it is

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I've almost decided two things.First, I had felt a strong drive to click YES at the finish point installing Safari on my Windows box. It is definitely the browser as of today. I prefer using Safari now but as a developer I stand with Firefox. Simply I need those dev gadgets around.As writing this I changed my mind. I decided to use MPlayer as a primary media player on my box. A good fellow 

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Update: title modified to freeze.ist.ic due to naming conflict with an other ist.ic meme item :)Well, this is my second drop for everyone who loves club dance and slim electro jazz. But what is acid jazz?As Wikipedia says, "it is a musical genre that combines elements of soul music, funk, disco, particularly looping beats and modal harmony. It developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen

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Universal Usability is a website focusing on accessibility and usability during the design process. Access by Design. Read. Period.Web Style Guide is a well known book online introducing the basic steps building nice and accessible websites.

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Rob Bazinet wrote a nice post on 10 Alternative Ruby Web Frameworks including some I've never heard about. Thanks Rob!

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Recently I got a copy of RailsSpace, a book on Community website built with Ruby on Rails. It's easy to follow and informative, reveals rails specificities in an iterative way.Task is king for a programmer. The big task for the book is to build a community website with individual profiles, blogs and friendships. The basic idea is driven by an alumni - not a big-beta-web2.0 app to be sure; but to

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Tapir, notorious free thinker and blogger, started a stream of music selection series, the ist.ic. Here is my contribution called street.is.ic, devoted to classic and new street rap and hip-hop favorites of mine. We respect the holy © so its all linked material.Don't forget to check outta other pieces in the series!U-God/Leatha Face: WildstyleIce Cube: Check Yo SelfEazy E: Real compton g'sCypress

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No, I really do not know the way how we can create and run unit and functional tests without any headaches. Think of a web application with huge amount of JavaScript magic, DOM manipulation and AJAX calls. My good fellow colleague at Liligo, deadcabbit, hacked a mini test kit sketch together after we discussed this no-go situation.I tried to find some tools even on Twitter, and on Xtreme

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I prepared two screencasts (no sound sorry!) on our beloved search engine. The quality is not the best (sorry again!) but you can see the important new functions we implemented in the end of 2007.First lets see the widget framework in action.Then play with the Package search tool.Be prepared the follow ups :)

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The first Start Up conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary at 5th March. The organisers try to bring together brave minded developers and business people to let those ideas happen in real world. May the force with them :)

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Liligo got some attention last week - our travel search engine appeared in a telly show on travel search tips and approaches. Enjoy :)

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Will tell you in a few points:Don't waste your time learn to programFire up at least one blog about nothing but youLearn to cook, take photos, flickr 'emGive attention your lookalikeBe a heteroGet excercisedBecome a regular drinker, pick out your placeAppear every event you can get a chance

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It's definitely worth while to blink at this nice competition website! University students created some web applications (and earned money btw) after they presented classes.The challenge started with a skeleton database - You had to build a web app (plus user management, mashup etc.) based on a Movie Database-like excerpt from Wikipedia.Take a look on the winner, Your Movie Database, and others

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I decided to write about some of my favorite white labels we created at Liligo. My personal fav is Men's up, a popular french magazine on hi-tech stuff and cars of course :) I think we chose a good way to match the style of this site.An other catch is free.fr of course - I think I don't have introduce the biggest ISP of France. This white label has our new services, packages and ski!Later I will

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We launched a nice white label with CashStore.fr, a popular french magazine for mainly business readers. I found them good and open minded partners during the development procedure and hope this way of partnership will be a great success for both of us.Pay a visit to the cashstore webby.

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Recently merb got some attention with her great features. It is available as a gem as well. Nice to hear from a great framework that is "ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic".An other wanna-try is Camping, a super-lightweight framework from the creator of the amazing Hackety Hack toy bundle.Obviously Nitro is a worth while framework. It supports the Ruby

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As of FireBug JavaScript started philosophizing on Time. A good start!

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I decided to write on Authentic Jobs webby by Cameron Moll. Cameron is a USA based designer creating not just nice but accessible and usable websites.Authentic Jobs was established back in 2005 and received a warm welcome from people all over the web.As you can see, the nice and purist interface takes you the opportunity to sort the available jobs by full-time, freelance, design and development

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The new version of Flock has a nice blogging interface to many of blogger services. I can easily create posts without going anywhere; and the top of that I can seamlessly put video or image resources clipped from my desktop or other webbies.Thank you Flockers :)

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Here is my - not complete - list of web developer tools I use daily. I'll not follow the "Top 10 x" listings path, just include those apps I found useful and necessary for everyday work.Web Tools:FireBugThe ultimate extension for Mozilla Firefox.Web Developer ToolbarAdds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools; useful for measuring design implementations etc.FiddlerA nice HTTP

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