Posted by Daniel Butler
Thu, 04 May 2006 11:32:00 GMT
Gael Pourriel posted the following Ajax spinners with transparent, neutral color backgrounds to the Rails mailing list. Thank you, Gael; these are exactly what I needed.
Mac Spinner → 
Moz Spinner → 
It looks like you have to wait just a bit faster with the Mac spinner than with the Moz spinner. Right click each image above and select 'Save As' to have them for your very own web dynamo.
Update: Create your own custom spinners with whatever backgrounds you need at ajaxload.info.
Update 2: Here's another eyeful of various AJAX Activity Indicators, a veritable hamster dance of wait-for-it-ness. My favorite:
Moz Orange → 
Posted in Open Source | Tags ajax, spinner | 10 comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Tue, 02 May 2006 17:23:00 GMT
RadiantCMS Page Management Interface
John W. Long at Wiseheart Design
has announced a new content management system written in Ruby on Rails. Radiant CMS is a "no-fluff, open source content management system designed
for small teams. It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a
general purpose content management system (not a blogging engine)." Notable features include:
- An elegant user interface
- Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language (Radius)
- Development and Production modes, depending on URL used to access the application
- Extensible with special page-oriented plugins called behaviors
- Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML, with support for other filters
- A Simple user management/rights system
John also writes that Radiant CMS will be used to power ruby-lang.org when it has been adequately tested.
Radiant CMS Home Page
Radiant CMS Trac
RadiantC MS Public Demo
Posted in Open Source, Ruby on Rails | Tags cms | no comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:59:00 GMT
The Committee for Economic Development released a 72-page report entitled Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness. The report recommends open standards, open source, and open innovation in government to promote growth of the U.S. and other world economies. One choice quote:
"Open-source software development is providing a testing ground for the organization of massive, distribute collaboration by volunteers who are subject to neither authority from within a hierarchical firm nor to the market's price signals."
The extensive list of references in the full report (144 of them!) is a What's-What of open-source, Web 2.0-type literature and articles and well worth the click.
Summary Report - PDF
Full Report - PDF
Posted in Open Source | Tags economy, opensource | no comments
Canoeists on Suwannee River, Florida (December 2001)
