Archive 5/2006

WordPress just got 3 Seems like the folks on WordPress.org totally forgot to celebrate this anniversery, but Nitallica hasn't forgotten

Hach, sometimes it's still worth going shopping outside of the www. Yesterday I was browsing on Amazon.de to find some intersting DVDs and found this one. I liked "Dark Angel" but never had the time to really watch every episode. And 49.90EUR is in my opinion still acceptable for a whole season (@Paramount: 80EUR isn't).

ByeBye Ma.gnolia. It was a good start but that's all it was for me. I've now gone back to del.icio.us for my daily social bookmarking. For my taste the interface on Ma.gnolia is simply too cramped with adverticing and meta information which makes the whole site way too slow for normal use. Also the post-form's tag-autocompletion is in my opinion hardly usable.

So now I'm back with the service that started it all and all I'm really missing is the group-feature which I wanted to use but no one wanted to join me OK, for example the ruby-group is nice, but you can do the same thing with tags.

So yesterday I wrote a small script to first of all give me a list of all the bookmarks that I had in my Ma.gnolia repository but that were missing on del.icio.us. I won't post the script here for now because I guess it was quite close to the terms of use for the del.icio.us API. I throttled it down to one call every 2 seconds but anyway

So I will just post some problems I came across that are all basically difference between the export file of del.icio.us and the one of Ma.gnolia.

Yet another search engine just saw the light of the web for the first time: Gazerk; a search engine for gamers. Found it on Kotaku, tried it, and was quite disappointed.

Damn, that's what you get when you don't subscribe to each and every RSS/Atom feed you might be interested in Two days ago Joe Hewitt released version 0.4 of his Firefox extensio FireBug which I was really looking forward to to. But now it is here

Thanks to the amount of TrackBack spam I received lately I've now replaced WP-Gatekeeper with Akismet. I really hope that this will help here. If it doesn't I will have to disable TrackBacks altogether

Seems like blogging is getting more an more popular with gaming sites. No, I don't mean sites like [Kotaku] which are basically gaming blogs, but I mean the more traditional places for gamers on the web like [GameSpot][] and [1up][].

Want to know what files are not included in a darcs repository? Well, me too From what I can tell, darcs itself doesn't offer something like that and if it does, it was at least a good excuse for some Ruby'ing

Seems like Firebug is more any more becoming one of the most powerful webdevelopment extensions for Firefox. Justin Palmer wrote an in-depth report about some of the new features Firebug will have in it's next release. According to this article there will be breakpoints, logging, tracing etc. facilities to make debugging JavaScripts much easier. Finally now alerts anymore

Today someone in #ruby-lang asked if you could use Rails' ActionMailer also in standalone ruby applications. That user left after a short time and the question stayed unanswered, although it is my opinion quite interesting So I started digging a little bit through the documentation and came up with a quite basic solution which actually holds no real suprises.