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I have spotted the first photo-set of rails-konferenz.de - look who’s talking: by dbloete Technorati Tags: egosurfing, rails-konferenz

This post is a follow up and an expansion to my presentation at rails-konferenz.de on the topic of “offline Rails applications”. If you are not interested in lessons from history, technical details about replication etc. feel free to skip this… The rage these days is twofold: The “Rich Internet Application” (RIA) and the ability to go off-line. There are a number of ways coming up, that promise you, that you can take (rich) web applications offline. A slew of products are coming out (AIR, Google Gears, Slingshot, …) that are tackling this problem. ...

I have been using my mobile phones as a modem for the Mac Power/MacBook quite some time now with mixed success. While the different Nokia phone I used (Commuicator 9500, 9300 and the E61) generally work fine, they regularly just crash or drop the connection - sometime requiring a reboot of the phone. And, while I’m online via the phone, I can’t be reached - which sometimes is difficult. So - after seeint that Swisscom Mobile has PC Express cards that supposedly work on my MacBook Pro, I decided to try that. ...

While going through my spam folder, I happened upon this gem: I find it sad, that the off-shoring country no 1 is trying to off-shore their work… At least, from what I’ve heard, the west is paying the east for offshored work. Doesn’t seem, like this guy has heard of that concept… Technorati Tags: offshoring, outsourcing ...

Next week, rails-konferenz.de is taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, 22nd of June. I will be there and present on “Working offline” using Joyent Slingshot. It’s going to be my second appearance at Rails-Konferenz, and I’m very much looking forward to being there. Be sure to say Hi, if you are there too. Technorati Tags: joyent, presenting, rails, rails-konferenz, slingshot

talking virtually While most of the added value of a conference is coming from the face to face meetings with a bunch of different people, the tech-crowd can do amazing things when given WiFi and some tools. I witnessed this power the first time at reboot 7.0 when spontaneous collaboration emerged. I’d like to give something to the reboot crowd - an experiment in chatting. chat.invisible.ch is a chat system without rooms, but with tags - where discussions can focus and defocus - not in rooms, but in connected ideas. ...