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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)

• Pool Party – Cloud EC2 Computing Made Easy
  Pool Party is an open source tool that automates deployment, monitoring, and load balancing of EC2 instances. Configure once, and relax by the poolside — Pool Party will keep your site and its instances afloat.
  (tags: ec2 ruby aws s3 gem cluster grid deployment)

DHH & Libin, originally uploaded by Wes and Faye.

Thanks to my dear co-worker Wesley took this nice picture for me!

It was after David has finished his Keynote in RailsConf 2008.

• Compare Your FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers with Others » Feed Compare
  Feed Compare is a fresh service for comparing Feedburner feed subscribers.

  This feed comparison application lets you compare up to 4 feeds at a time and presents the results with a nice flash chart interface

  (tags: analytics rss feed statistics comparison chart)
• Free Online Radio Streaming Platform – iRadeo
  iRadeo is a free online radio platform that allows anyone to stream their MP3 / WAV files. Once installed, iRadeo will automatically detect and stream any supported file format that has been uploaded to the specified directory.

  (tags: radio streaming mp3 music audio)
• My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage
  IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
  (tags: ie testing browser development webdesign comparison benchmark)
• Sava CMS – Open Source ColdFusion CMS – Free to download and use
  Sava is an open source content management system, built with Coldfusion, that helps you manage your site content easily. Besides CMS functions, Sava has marketing features like targeted messaging, user tracking, integrated email marketing and more.
  (tags: cms coldfusion opensource)
• AskApache Web Development
  Web Development, WordPress, Apache, .htaccess, tutorials, mod_rewrite, phpmailer, programming articles
  (tags: admin apache reference htaccess sysadmin)
• Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework From Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry
  Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework From Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry
  (tags: css framework webdesign layout design)