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In playing with Ruby on Rails (on Mac OS X), this has happened to me several times. I’ll shut down the terminal, but WEBrick keeps going, serving up pages in the browser. I have no clue why this happens (I’m totally new to Rails), but it was very frustrating, since it would prevent me from [...]

Bloglines offers support for podcasting now, which is pretty interesting: I’ve always wondered how a web based reader would go about incorporating enclosures.

But unless I’m missing something, I think Bloglines is going about it the wrong way. From my understanding, when you subscribe to podcast feed in Bloglines, the mp3 file is downloaded to the [...]

Phillip Keller has a nice summary of a few database schemas for a tag-enabled application. Basically, it comes down to normalized or not. I think you’re much better off normalizing to 3NF (a table for your records, a table for your tags, and a lookup table to tie them together). Here’s Feedmarker’s schema (the part [...]

Thanks to a forum member for pointing out Rojo’s erroneous claim: they think they’re the only ones with tags and sharing. Word of advice, if you’re going to claim a feature as unique in bold red letters, at least do a cursory search to find out if what you’re claiming is true. It’s not hard [...]

Not your Gmail account, of course, or mine, but some Gmail users are reporting a new feature at the top of their inbox called Web Clips, which lets you subscribe to RSS feeds and read them in Gmail. It helps to be a former Google employee and co-founder of Blogger. Although I’m sure we’ll all [...]

Here’s some unsupported opinion on which tech trends I think matter (and which don’t). Hopefully I’ll get a chance to back some of this up later on…Podcasting: not yet. Sorry, I just don’t see it – beside the fact that it’s just mp3 files posted on a websites (yes, yes, I know, you can download [...]

It’s coming at the end of the month, Apple’s latest upgrade of OS X. I’m most excited about Spotlight, the new integrated search application. It’ll be interesting to see if it works as well for speeding up workflow as Quicksilver (Side point: Quicksilver is so good, I almost never need to use the mouse anymore [...]

David Galbraith (creator of Wists) has a good post on some of the ways we might begin to tag tags, and achieve greater context around their meaning. Wists (and del.icio.us) and some others have implemented a feature where you can assign a parent tag to a tag, something like “location=minnesota” or “media=music”. There are some [...]

I wish I could say which version of Feedmarker this is, but I’m not really keeping track. So, by decree, this release is beta 0.67. Or maybe it’s alpha 0.67. Whatever. There are some cool new features, including some people suggested on the forum. Here’s what has changed:

See users like you – when viewing your [...]

Gmail wasn’t kidding about giving away 2 gigs of space and not stopping there. Check your account (or the main Gmail page) – mine is at 2050 megs right now and still rising. I wonder when it will stop?At this point I have more space in my Gmail inbox than I do on this server. [...]