One of the best things about my current position is all the time I’m getting to spend with Ruby and Rails. After having written 3 different web frameworks myself for internal projects, Rails is *so* freaking cool.

I just saw this on diggdot.us: Rails 1.1 updates!

One of the many things that I’m excited to play with is RJS. The default AJAX stuff was nice, but no easy to customize without having to drill into the javascript. With RJS, life just keeps getting better.

Thanks David.

… the WRT54G. I’m starting work on a Rails site for the WRT54G admin web-interface. It’ll be fun, AJAX-y and Web 2.0 it all it’s goodness. Why not?

It turns out the hardest part is getting rails and all it’s dependancies on the box!

I started with: http://handhelds.org/feeds/ruby/

After loading the ruby-large package, I’ll try to get GEM going.

[Hmm.. do people use CPAN when working with perl compiled for ARM? Should I screw GEMs and package up the rails code itself? Find out on the next episode!]

Instead of MySQL, I’ll throw in SQLite for the backend, thought it looks like I’ll have to compile the ruby-sqlite bindings for ARM myself if they are written in C (and I don’t have GEMs available.)

Things that really excite me this year so far:

• Ubuntu
• KnoppMyth (Sweet action MythTV!)
• Ruby On Rails
• Asterisk (just bought a Sipura 3000)
• RAGI
• SwitchTower
• Ruby

I had the great opportunity to meet with Jared Smith, Asterisk Guru and author. He was up doing some VOIP consulting for my company. What a cool guy! I had him up to talk to the LUG a few months ago and was impressed with his knowledge and it was good to see him again. He recently switched to ful-time consulting and gets to have all kinds of fun going to uber-geek conventions and the like. I truly am jealous. The good thing is he gave me a copy of his book and even signed it for me.

He spoke of his fun at The O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. He hob-nobbed with some alpha geeks. We spoke about scripting language integration and I mentioned my Ruby affection. He told me about a talk given at the conference about some sweet ruby Asterisk intergration (ala RAGI) and some real cool news about Rails / Asterisk intergration. Dang fine!

After some Googling it turns out my hero for this week is Joe Heitzeburg. His talks is entitled “Ruby on Rails with Asterisk.”

Sweet article here.

I’ve been seeing alot of Web 2.0 mashups on the internet recently. I’ve come up with a sweet FOSS mashup…

MythTV (more specifically MythWeb) + FLV video streaming (ala Google Video) =
Slingbox for Myth (MythSling?)

Of course there’d have to be a conversion process that selects which shows are for “web viewing” and convert them from nuv to flv (ffmpeg?). The question is wheather or not hat process can be done on the fly (lots of CPU usage) or a batch load.

Do you need any more of a reason to install an alternate brower on your desktop? Do you have to be hit over the head?
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3374931

I attended the Utah Geek Dinner last night and it was really a great event. Dr. Windley’s presentation was food for thought and I got a chance to meet a few geeks in person. I sat across from Pete Ashdown the head honcho at Xmission (and who is running for State Senate against Sen. Hatch — good luck Pete!) and right next to Erik Anderson of Busybox and uClibc fame.

After the meeting, while I was driving home, I came up with a new idea. Ok - so it isn’t really new… just putting some ideas together to form something new: Social Podcasting (spodcasting?)

Brief Summary: The podcast topics and questions will be submitted and voted upon before hand (think digg.com) This podcast will have a website where you can submit topics to discuss or people to interview and then underneath that topic/interview you can submit specific questions to be discussed or asked. All these elements can be voted on and the most popular topics/interviews will be picked for the next podcast with the most popular specific questions to be discussed or asked.

It really doesn’t matter what OS you prefer. Linux or Mac fanboy? Tride and true Windows dude? However you slice it, Firefox has emerged as the best all-around browser for any OS.

1.5 is out with a slew of updates and new features. Grab it now.

I’ll have to throw my opinion in on this one:

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

I agree - especially #7, #8 and #9.

Not bad for the guy who was the founder of Blogger and now runs Odeo.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Bless TechCrunch!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/21/companies-id-like-to-profile-but-dont-exist/