TextDrive seeks to sweeten control with Rails application. TextPanel is the name of TextDrive’s effort to modernize Webmin and the whole of branch of control panel software. They’re hard at work on it. And it’s going to be a Rails application, of course. Like all the other management software they’re building over there. The first [...]

Taking Ajax higher with next Rails release. Thomas Fuchs has been doing awesome work building on top of Prototype (the Javascript engine driving Ajax in Rails) to bring us script.aculo.us: Better effects and drag’n’drop capabilities. Together with the upload progress enhancements from Sean Treadway, we’re going to have a big upgrade to the Ajax capabilities [...]

Asterisk. By nat Asterisk is amazing. I remember PBX systems being the mainframes of the business telephony world: huge expensive systems that trapped you with a vendor. Now you can bring up a Linux box to manage your company's voice systems in a matter of days, with more features than you could afford in hardware. [...]

Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms. When I had dinner recently with InfoWorld Contributing Editor Phil Windley, he put his finger on something I've been trying to nail down for years. Like me, Phil works mainly in a home office, is married to a nongeek, and is often called on to deliver spousal tech support. From [...]

microformats.org Launched. Officially announced at Supernova2005 earlier this week, a new community-based site has been launched to be the official home for microformats — with a logo and simple site design from SimpleBits. microformats.org contains anything and everything you'd want to know about microformats, how to implement them, who's involved, and how to join the [...]

NeoOffice/J 1.1 Finally Released. After five years of development, NeoOffice/J is finally released. From the announcement (found in a NeoWiki cache): The goal of NeoOffice/J is to provide an entirely free and complete Mac OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project – only with the look-and-feel you'd expect from any Macintosh application. [...]

OPML.   Tinderbox 2.5 imports OPML — an XML interchange format for outlines. If you've got an OPML file that would be nice to import into Tinderbox, send it along and we'll test it.  [Mark Bernstein]

Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List. Scott Hanselman has an awesome list of his favorite 120 developer and power tools.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. Word on the street is that popular webhost Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. That’s great news, especially if you’re already married to DH and wants to do Ruby on Rails development. For everyone else starting out or looking for a new host, the premier choice for Rails hosting [...]

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. The Importance of RSS “Unfortunately, Google’s well of good data is being poisoned by the likes of comment spammers, trackback spammers and adsense mongers. And while Google, the other search engines and the blog software community have been fighting the good fight with ideas like nofollow, Typekey [...]