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...

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...

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,...

This year’s IA Summit just wrapped up in Miami and as usual there are several sets of slides that made me wish I had gone. Not surprisingly, I was drawn to Leah Buley’s presentation “How to be a UX team of one.” A bunch of others look really interesting too, and relevant to others outside...

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...