We believe the migration to Google App Engine will result in improved stability, so we made the hard call to invest all of our effort in finishing up the port rather than do what was needed to keep up our old servers up to date [...]
(taken from Jaikido Blog)
Google Health and its sharing concept. Another service that i would never use because of privacy concerns. But if you are eager to use it you should:
Wheew! I like the new Firefox3 RC. Especially the smooth integration into MacOSX. It was always frustrating to see this ugly old design of Firefox < 3. But now:
Great. And a lot of cool bookmark features with Places.
Like you can see, there is also a delicious Add-on available: http://del.icio.us/extensions/firefox/delicious.xpi
idleaf.com is a nice identity management system. Just created my own identity some days ago. :)
Use Soundex strings with Ruby
To create soundex strings in Ruby which you can then use for example in MySQL queries (see MySQL manual) can be easily created using the Text library (http://rubyforge.org/projects/text).
Install it using gem:
sudo gem install Text
Include it using…
require 'text'
…and use it for example in this way:
Text::Soundex.soundex('Hello world')
:notice for positive feedback (action successful, etc)
:message for neutral feedback (reminders, etc)
:warning for negative feedback (action unsuccessful, error encountered, etc)
(via DZone)