• Templates | Web Templates | 3D Models | Illustrations | Clipart
  Templates.com is a resource-rich website presenting professional cliparts and website templates (and flash templates).

  There are hundreds of quality illustrations, 3D models and icons which will give your web applications or designs a fresh look.

  (tags: templates design template webdesign inspiration library)
• jQuery UI – ThemeRoller
  ThemeRoller is a web based application that helps theming jQuery UI components. Using ThemeRoller, you can create your theme for your web applications within minutes. It’s completely intuitive, comes wich rich controls to change the color and design.
  (tags: jquery JavaScript Theme UI)
• LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network
  LearnHub has modified its layout to be less overwhelming – the site’s homepage now reads like an online magazine, displaying featured content, trivia, and polls.
  (tags: e-learning education elearning learnhub learning socialnetworking techcrunch toronto canada ruby rails)
• Lockdown
  Lockdown is a authentication/authorization system for RubyOnRails (ver 2.x). While Merb functionality is in place, it is not complete. There will be a release solely focused on getting the Merb functionality up to par with Rails.
  (tags: authentication rails security ruby rubyonrails plugin plugins development)
• MacRuby – macruby – Trac
  MacRuby is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation framework.
  (tags: apple cocoa mac macosx osx programming ruby)

John just posted a new article: LearnHub & The Mullet Strategy

I think it is hilarious!

Version 2 of the LearnHub homepage got out the door today, and was covered by TechCrunch: LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network. With this we’ve crystilized our homepage strategy around everyone’s favorite hairstyle, The Mullet

I first heard the term used in this way in an article about The HuffingtonPost in the New Yorker: Out of Print. The term caught my eye because it was funny, memorable, and accurately describes our project.

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We are on del.icio.us Hotlist today! And it is the 4th in popular list.

We’ve redesigned our homepage:

And get TechCrunched:

Tasty!

We three of us in Learnhub, Wesley Moxam, Carsten Nielsen and my self have attended RailsConf 2008 last weekend. It was a great event for sure. After came back, we did a presentation for Toronto Ruby on Rails Project Night yesterday. Here is the presentation file which we’ve used:

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RailsConf 2008 Summary and Review

• DhoniShow v. 0.7
  DhoniShow is an easy to setup image gallery script built with Prototype & Script.aculo.us.

  The transitions between the images can also be updated with simple parameters too.

  (tags: ajax javascript gallery slideshow prototype js animation)
• Erubis: fast and extensible eRuby implementation
  Erubis is a fast, secure, and very extensible implementation of eRuby.
  (tags: ruby rails erb eruby templates programming web rubyonrails)
• Nome do Jogo » Artigo » New Free Book: “Ruby on Rails 2.1 – What’s new”
  New Free Book: “Ruby on Rails 2.1 – What’s new”
  (tags: books ebooks rails ruby)
• Thinkbase
  (tags: visualization freebase database semanticweb wiki semantic data mindmap)

• CodeSmack
  (tags: funny geek humor rails ruby shopping t-shirts)

• NitobiBug – Browser based debugger
  It’s a browser-based JavaScript object logger and inspection tool – similar to Firebug. NitobiBug runs across different browsers (IE6+, Safari, Opera, Firefox) to provide a consistent and powerful tool for developing rich Ajax applications.
  (tags: javascript debugger browser development debug)
• Dr Long Ghost – Validanguage
  Validanguage is an object-oriented, unobtrusive JavaScript form validation library that does not rely on any JavaScript frameworks (optional Prototype integration).
  (tags: form javascript validation)
• ThunderBoltAS3 – flash-thunderbolt – Google Code
  ThunderBolt AS3 is a lightweight logger extension for Flex 2/3 and Flash ActionScript 3 applications using Firebug within Firefox as simple as possible.

  (tags: actionscript actionscript3 flex flash debugging logging)
• Clocking IT
  ClockingIT is an open source task – time tracking & project management application (normall a free hosted app. & source code is available) built with Ruby on Rails.
  (tags: management project timesheet web2.0 ajax)
• 280 Slides – Create & Share Presentations Online
  Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there’s no software to download and nothing to pay for – and when you’re done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.
  (tags: presentation powerpoint slideshow web2.0 online)
• ID Selector – Making OpenID easier
  Let’s Make OpenID Easier
  (tags: authentication openid usability)
• Sneaky Abstractions: JavaScript Routes
  JavascriptRoutes converts your Rails routes into JavaScript. You can then access (generate) them in the browser (or any other JS environment). It supports both normal and named routes, and creates helper functions for the latter.
  (tags: development javascript routing ruby rails)

• TextFlow – Product
  (tags: collaboration document online web2.0)

• JW Image Rotator
  The JW Image Rotator (built with Adobe’s Flash) enables you to show a couple of photos in sequence, with fluid transitions between them.
  (tags: flash slideshow gallery animation image rotator opensource photography design)
• goosh.org – the unofficial google shell.
  Welcome to goosh.org – the unofficial google shell.

  This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.
  You type commands and the results are shown on this page.

  (tags: ajax google shell search)
• Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby
  Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby

  Sequel is a database access toolkit for Ruby. Sequel provides thread safety, connection pooling, and a concise DSL for constructing queries and table schemas.

  (tags: activerecord database sql library development programming ruby orm)
• cachetastic
  The simple, yet extremely powerful, Ruby caching framework
  (tags: caching ruby cache development performance programming rails)
• elc technologies – Speedy Solr: XML Libraries
  The take away message is, if you are using acts_as_solr you should make sure you have the libxml-ruby gem installed!
  (tags: rails ruby solr lucene searchengine)