Managing 50+ blogs on nytimes.com

From Khoi Vinh’s ongoing Q&A session: Over the past two-plus years, as The Times newsroom has embraced blogging with tremendous alacrity, we’ve created over 150 blogs, and over a third of those remain active today. The challenge is even more complex when you consider that, though each blog has its own needs, the vast majority...

mod_rails for Apache – the end of an era?

At the end of last week Phusion, a Netherlands based IT company, launched the Passenger gem, which acts as a mod_rails for Apache. Without going into the technical details, this is as close as Rails has come to having an ‘ftp files to the server and it works’ deployment method. With deployment being one of...

Review: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails by Michael J. Mangino

I spent most of this past weekend working through Michael J. Mangino’s book “Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails“(DFPAWR) from the Pragmatic Programmers. I’ve been interested in the facebook platform for awhile but the resources have mostly fallen into two categories: 1) Overly simple Hello World programs in PHP or 2) Exhaustive api references. DFPAWR,...

flash projects

While perusing the ever important osflash.org in preparation for some upcoming flash work, I came across some really great open source flash projects I thought might be interesting to some. movie masher Facilitates easy navigation of video, audio and image assets as well as effects, transitions and themes. Media can simply be dragged into the...