http://croonmytune.com

or read about it here: http://jumpcanopy.com/?p=21

Then I came across this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1249282/set-method-to-put-in-rails-xml-requests

So... if you're using prototype your "put" methods look something like this:

You can skip the last 10 minutes or so when he dives into this odd crazy future... but the beginning part really makes you think about how you can add game theory to any business you're in. I really like the idea of experience points and leveling up for class. That's something any event-based business could really get into.

h/t Andrew Holz. via fury.com

You can also check that your multi-threading is active by seeing if ActionController::Base.allow_concurrency is true.

We add ::RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.fatal { "Mulithreading is active? #{ActionController::Base.allow_concurrency}" }
to the end of our environment.rb to let us know that it worked.

Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Today we're excited to announce our new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet as an alternative way to track your websites! It provides the following benefits:

* Faster tracking code load times for your web pages due to improved browser execution
* Enhanced data collection & accuracy
* Elimination of tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript hasn't fully loaded

This is excellent news. I had implemented something similar on my own, but it always had its own problems. I'm glad to see it officially supported.

But the demos show just how far short even best-of-breed iPhone web apps fall compared to native apps.

John Gruber writes about jQTouch demos saying they "aren't great." It made me wonder what in particular he finds lacking - as those demos look exactly the same as their native counter parts to me. Or - was it that they lacked "features" which would be "not the fault of the framework."

I think you can do *so* much in safari on the iphone now days... it really hasn't been explored very thoroughly.

Being able to make the necessary tradeoffs between conflicting constraints takes skill. I’ve always viewed constraints as my friends. They make me more creative. By thoroughly understanding the limitations that constrain a design solution, I can make the right tradeoffs and come up with the best design solution possible under those constraints. Plus, balancing different constraints often forces me to think outside the box, so inspires innovative design solutions.

Excellent and long article talking about various user-time-wasting or user-annoying things to avoid in your UI.

I watched this video last night (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/storage/) which was well done. Basically - YUI has taken the html5 spec and ported it to other browsers. There's Raphael: http://raphaeljs.com/ which has taken SVG and moved it to other browsers.

It seems to me that, while I can't wait till IE9 or 8.5 support stuff that Firefox and Safari have supported for years, the modern landscape is looking pretty good.

Computers are getting fast enough and the javascript engines are good enough that we are consistently better able to simulate APIs in the "crappy browsers."

What do you think?

I've been working on a little website called Croon My Tune with my
friend Mike. I'd love it if you'd check it out
(http://croonmytune.com). Basically, you just type in any words you
want, pick a tune, and then someone will sing those words for you
(it's like a modern, online, singing telegram). You then have a home
for your song (or "croon," as we call it) that you can send via email,
IM, Facebook, etc. It's worked really nicely so far for a bunch of
uses (invitations, weird emails, etc). I want to hear how it works for
you.

At this point, it costs $4.99/croon (we're working to reduce that).

We're still actively developing the product,
but I think it's at a point now where I can share it with my greatest
advisors: you, my friend, family and blog readers.

Thanks for checkin' out the site. I think you'll like it. It's really
fun to work on, that's for sure.

Want to hear this post sung?
http://croonmytune.com/songs/90d5a220-b839-11de-8ded-1231390a4e28
2 other examples? http://croonmytune.com/welcome/examples