links for 2008-03-25

What’s New in Edge Rails: Has Finder Functionality 3

The days of forcing time-zone support into your Rails apps with not one, but two plugins are over. It would appear that Rails now has its own way of dealing with timezones via a custom implementation (though it’s still based on the tzinfo gem).

The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple and light way to add internationalization feature onto your blog.

Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you.

Share your photos on Twitter with TwitPic!

Chat with visitors to your website using iChat!

Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.

Meteora is set of cross-browser Widgets and Controls that allows you to quickly write rich and customizable web applications without having to waste time reading full pages of documentation or programming excessive javascript that is painful to debug.

simplejson is a simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python