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Refresh Tallahassee Group Now Forming

Daniel Butler — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:08:00 -0500

Mike Houghton invites all web technologists in the Tallahassee area to the first meeting of Refresh Tallahassee on Thursday, December 7 at 6:30 pm at the Moore Consulting Group. So what is Refresh Tallahassee? Mike writes:

Good question. Here’s a working definition–Refresh is a community of metro Tallahassee designers and developers who interface to invigorate the web development culture in our area. Refresh is about crafting the best client-user relationship web-based media can offer. It’s a meeting at the crossroads of user-experience and usability, sharing ideas about how to “make it easy to be happy.”

See you there!

Refresh Tallahassee Site
Refresh Home Page

Roxen 4.5.111 Released

Daniel Butler — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:48:00 -0400

Roxen Webserver 4.5.111 (r2) has just been released by http://www.roxen.com/ of the 709-year old city of Linköping, Sweden. Roxen, named after a nearby lake, is a full-featured web application server platform, written in Pike and C, and supporting features such as dynamically-generated images and text, a XML-based macro language, a non-forking multi-threaded HTTP/HTTPS engine, proxy and relaying support, database integration. and other advanced features.

Changes since 4.5.78 include several RXML, HTTP, and database-related fixes. In the included version of Pike, they have included several “internal fixes for compiler errors, 2GB+ files, memory handling, asynchronous HTTP queries, etc.” The Image module now supports “CMYK format, EPS variations, little-endian TIFF files, GhostScript timeout, and more”.

We use Roxen and Apache 2/Rails/Mongrel side-by-side to be able to handle various difficult web-hosting situations. Things that are difficult in Apache are quite simple in Roxen, and some of the limitations of Roxen can be easily handled by Apache.

Roxen WebServer changes in 4.5.111 r2
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Prototype Carousel Class for Ruby on Rails

Daniel Butler — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:32:00 -0400

Sébastien Gruhier of Carquefou, France, a new Rails convert (after 13 years of C++/Java) has provided a handy Prototype/Scriptaculous Carousel component, which does not use any Yahoo User Interface JavaScript components. A carousel component allows you to view a window into a image stream, with forward and reverse buttons that allow you to navigate through the images.

Yahoo’s page describes the component:

The carousel component manages a list of content (HTML UL and LI elements) that can be displayed horizontally or vertically. The content can be scrolled back and forth with or without animation. The content can reference static HTML content or the list items can be created dynamically on-the-fly (with or without Ajax).

The current version supports both static and Ajax content.

Prototype Carousel Component Home Page
Original Carousel Component Documentation

The New Ruby-Lang.org

Daniel Butler — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:00:00 -0400

A new design for ruby-lang.org is coming, and it’s very Web 2.0. Sweet.

_why’s Blog Article
New Site
Old Site