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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. ...

Today, Tweakfest 2007 starts. Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak will be holding a keynote, and the rest of the festival program looks really exciting! I’m happy to provide a little piece of the Tweakfest Puzzle with flow@tweakfest, a backchannel application that will collect users, visitors, spectators feedback and be projected next to the presentations. While I have been doing quite a few Ruby On Rails applications over the last year, I always had the luxury of working on in-house solutions. This is my first public facing application to go live, and to say that I’m nervous is just understating it. ...

I’m back from vacations in egypt. It wasn’t quite the vacation we planned, and due to various illnesses, I got to spend more time than I would have liked in an egyptian hospital, caring for my 7 year old daughter. But we made it back, and caught a lot of sun-rays. I have been reading extensively during the vacation, and I’d like to share some of the books I read and my thoughts on them: ...

I haven’t been very active here the last few weeks, due to an enormous amount of work that needed to be done. And I won’t be very active the next two weeks either. I’m going of the grid for a while…

Remember my plea for help a couple of weeks ago? I haven’t really had any success with this (even though nice people tried to help me). But then things picked up in the last few days: I browsed through the “Agile Web Development with Rails” book and found a note that basically said, that Internet Explorer is borked when you try to manipulate the DOM of a table. It seems, that it’s not able to handle the innerHTML attribute of table rows or table cells. ...