Updated Rails Plugins
[Tom Fakes](http://blogcraz8com/) was kind enough to point out that the Rails Rest controller and content negotiation plugins I posted a couple of weeks ago can no longer be...
Recent posts
Dynamically Scoped Variables
Just as Peter continues to be amazed by Wikipedia, so do I Today I noticed that David Jenkins, who I used to work with, wrote an article about a programminglanguage called Magik...
Typo Feeds
One of the nice new featues in the HEAD version of Typo is per-category feeds However, it wasn't quite obvious to me how to access them A quick look at...
Rails and HTML and XHTML
Rails support for HTML and XHTML is less than exemplary For some reason, the 111 release considers the application/xhtml+xml mime type to be a synonym for text/html Ummwhy And...
Ruby Bindings for GEOS
One of the things I do is help maintain the SWIG bindings for the GEOS project GEOS, which stands for the Geometry Engine Open Source, is a library for working with 2D geometries...
Back Online
A couple of days ago I had the good fortune of having a new Dell Dimension 9000 donated to MapBuzz The plan was to replace an ancient PIII server with the new machine over the...
On Being a Plumber
After my uncle emigrated from [Ukraine](http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/Ukraine) to the US after World War II, he made his living as a plumber I think I’ve inherited one or...
Restful Rails Revisited
Anyone interested in making Rails a bit more restful should check out the current thread on the Microformats [Rest](http://microformatsorg/mailman/listinfo/microformats-rest)...
Firebug
Just noticed that Joe Hewitt has posted an updated version of Firebug He's taken a great extension and turned it into the best Firefox extension by far Its an absolutely...
Rails and Content Negotiation Revisited
Let's revisit the subject of content negotiation in Rails Now that I've upgraded to Rails 11 I've had a chance to play with the new responds_to functionality To get some...