Mondrianum is one of my favorite color pickers on Mac OS X, as it brings all the goodies from Adobe® kuler, the best color themes sharing community!

The last version of Mondrianum, 1.0b5 had exired on June 14, even it is still a freeware now. So two authors did a quick update and sent an apology out, which I think is great.

You can download the latest version from their site, and this version could be used until Sep. 30, 2008. I believe they will release another before that day.

The most interested part for me is not the post or software itself, it is the comment! One of the visitors left a comment said “I love your product and what you are doing… For the heck of it I slightly edited your statement to make the english flow a little more ‘natively.’”

What a lovely reader! I wish I could have some of them too!

Anyway, before they could update the post, I did a quick diff on them:

So, my dear readers, if you find anything wrong in my posts, please leave a comment. I would love to fix it!

Thanks!

• Rails on the Run - About Metaprogramming speed
  In conclusion, metaprogramming can be as fast as no metaprogramming but that won’t help your code readability and maintainability, so make sure to only use this great trick when needed!
  (tags: metaprogramming ruby)
• SproutCore » home
  SproutCore is designed to make desktop-like apps for the web.
  (tags: javascript framework ui design)
• blueprintcss - Google Code
  Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
  (tags: css framework webdesign layout web development)
• Dr Nic » What is *jour and why they are killer apps for RailsCamp08
  Chronologically: gitjour, pastejour, gemjour, dejour, starjour and appjour. And I think there are others. Its incredible.
  (tags: gems apps git github macosx osx ruby bonjour rails jour)
• jCodeCollector
  jCodeCollector is a multiplatform application (it’s written in Java) that help you to manage your snippets.
  (tags: code collection java)

Microsoft’s ‘500′ way:

• Rails Inside: Rails Blog Featuring News, Tips and Links
  Rails Inside, a new Rails blog dedicated to providing the latest Rails news, choice tutorials, and other useful links and resources on a daily / near-daily basis.
  (tags: Ruby Rails rubyonrails blog news)

• 33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
  33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration
  (tags: collection design webdesign inspiration)
• oEmbed
  oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
  (tags: api oembed json webservices media ajax)

• Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)
  (tags: apache development osx rails rubyonrails passenger mac mod_rails ruby)
• Unit Conversion Online - Use Our Unique Conversion Tools Free
  How many pounds is a kilo? How many feet is 18 meters? How many British pounds are my 10 dollars worth today? Convert world is the unique tool for all your converting!
  (tags: calculator conversion reference)
• LearnHub: Social View of Learning | DavidCrow.ca
  David Crow gave a comprehensive review on LearnHub.com
  (tags: e-learning elearning learnhub)

I’ve noticed Zoomii from the time Chris Thiessen did his presentation on Democamp 14. It was so impress and inspiration!

As Chris said, “Zoomii” is the closest the one which gives you the shopping experience like a real bookstore. Which I think is true. Take a minute on watching the video he created, I believe you will agree with me too.

Something else you might interested in:

• Chris has built this totally on his owner using Java and JavaScript.
• Chris has built this from zero. By zero, I mean he even built the web server for this instead of using Tomcat or others. I’ve asked him why, he said it was not that hard to create a web server and he only implemented what he really want, so the performance is pretty good.

Anyway, Zoomii is pre-open now, give it a try and you will like it.

Some updates:

Chris Thiessen - “Post-Launch Blog Posts”

StartupNorth - “Zoomii - Book Browsing” - Jonas Brandon

• Aiya101 » Blog Archive » Convergence
  LearnHub - it seems like once it has some more usability testing and trims the mullet it’ll be a powerhouse of an education site. Its already a great example of how information design is changing on the web.
  (tags: LearnHub education web2.0)

• Aaron Cannon’s Web Accessibility Checklist ~ Authentic Boredom
  Aaron Cannon, a blind web developer and accessibility consultant, has shared a great web accessibility checklist that every designer & developer will find handy.
  (tags: accessibility checklist webdesign usability cheatsheet)
• Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers
  How do you pronounce these unusual ASCII characters?
  (tags: programming reference language development english)
• Mon.itor.us
  Mon.itor.us is a free site uptime monitoring service which warns you when your website is down and provides statistics of your uptime & downtime.
  (tags: accessibility monitoring website monitor analytics application benchmark)
• Railsify!
  (tags: rails plugins rubyonrails ruby plugin repository directory programming community)