Mandarin Soda

Nice article about Orbitz prototyping and then eventually building its Travel Updater site in Rails. I think it’s almost a perfect story about how Rails can be used in companies with similar projects.

Happened yesterday. Let’s play some Philip Glass Sesame Street music in celebration. List of features here. So, what’s on the roadmap for 3.0?

even nicer. It sort of looks like they were using the Google Charts for their graphics.

nice. update: Doesn’t take the Rails folks long.

New article from Sitepoint discussing OpenID and various microformats to make your social networking application more integration and data flow friendly. Nice to see more discussion of “open” standards in this space…

Just saw a posting about the Boilerplate framework, which made me wonder who out there uses CSS frameworks like Blueprint or Yahoo? And if you do use them, why? Does this type of work really require libraries or is it more of a standards encouragement sorta thing?

Is Rapleaf making a difference in social networks?

BDD is quite fun (ok, I’m a dork). Nice presentation from the Rspec gang at the most recent Ruby conference.

For some reason, I tend to forget that the folks at Sitepoint blog with some frequency alongside their publishing business. I suppose its because, like most of their book titles, I’m not terribly intrigued by their somewhat basic or generic content, probably because its not even really aimed at folks like me. Anyway, preamble aside, [...]

Should we be sad (or even surprised)? Wonder what Google will come up with? I was going to try and find a picture of Britney to accompany these postings, but the irony of searching for one was a bit overwhelming. But I did it anyway. And the pictures were just too demented to boot.