Hey, in case you didn't know our Master's Project @ffwdme you should check it out. It's a JS framework for creating Navigation apps.

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Example for a Minimal Thin App

Here you can see an example for a minimal app that can be hooked up using the Thin ruby server (or using the new Rails 3 routing system). It was tested with Ruby 1.9.2-head and (important for me) also handles UTF-8 characters like ÄÖÜ umlauts without problems. Sometimes a clean code example is just better to understand than a whole tutorial. [gist id="454066"] Have a nice weekend!

Use Active Record 3 (3.0.0 beta 3) without Rails and custom Logger

Just in case you try to use Active Record 3 without Rails but you want the same fancy logging. You have to require not only active_record, but also active_record/railtie. Took me ...

Using Mootools with Ruby on Rails

This one was built and tested, using Rails 2.3.2 and Mootools 1.2.2 I've been playing around with Rails for about two months now and I LOVE it, because they integrate so ...

Take Executor beyond application launching

As you can see in my blogroll, I'm a Lifehacker fanboy. And I'm also a fan of application launchers, because I think, they can increase the speed of your workflow ...

Relaunch 2008

Hi everybody, as you can see, Burning Star is getting relaunched these days. Besides the better embedding of services like  Twitter, Flickr and OpenID (in the comments) the main change is ...