http://neilmiddleton.com in more than 140 characters Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Getting started with ActiveScaffold - A neat little alternative to the default Rails scaffolding that gives you a whole load more UI, and functionality out of the boxRadar- Let's you find ActiveRecord objects by year, month, fortnight, week and more.Adam Salter's sitemap_generator - Need a Google sitemap for your Rails ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/07/03/daily-links-7/ Lots today..Some Flash related stuff:Swf_fu - a neat little Rails helper for embedding SWF files in your applications, especially handy if you're using CDN'sRuby-ImageSpec - Another tiny, but handy utility which gets you the dimensions of a given image, or flash file, very handy if you're using SWFs in a ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/07/02/daily-links-6/ A big day in internet land yesterday as Firefox 3.5 finally dropped. Here's some more interesting stuff:Worldwide Firefox Downloads - How much bandwidth do you burn every second?BrowserCMS - The best Rails content management system in the world, probably. http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/07/01/daily-links-5/ Working from home today, which is always a bit weird...Cappuccino - A Javascript / Objective-J framework for writing web applications. Seems to be pretty cross platform too.Another AJAX platform at Ajax.org, and this one looks to be pretty good at charting ;)Firefox 3.5 - that's all you need to say ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/06/30/daily-links-4/ Monday morning. Joy...Upgrading OSX to Ruby 1.8.7 - if you haven't already, 1.8.7 is a worthwhile and fairly easy upgrade.Textmate bundles have moved and it's now on GitHub! http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/06/29/daily-links-3/ Well, whaddya know, I'm doing it again...A Quick Primer on Sharding for Ruby on Rails - A nice little guide on sharding and what it's good for. If you want to get mega, read this.Scalr.net - A nice little tool for managing a web cluster on Amazon's EC2. Also available ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/06/26/daily-links-2/ I might do this again, but don't hold your hopes up:Paper Trail - A simple application auditing, versioning plugin for your rails models. Stupid simple to integrateRunway App - A nice little GTD focused application. I'll give it a go for a few days and see how it flies. Free ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/06/26/daily-links-1/ This morning, Adobe announced that the latest drops of both Flash Builder (the IDE formerly known as Flex Builder) and Flash Catalyst are available on Labs. Both have been well covered in the media already, and Catalyst (or Thermo as it was known) is heading for it's third year ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/06/01/new-flash-tools-available-on-labs/ This Monday sees the start of the annual Scotch on the Rocks conference at the Sway bar in London.  This year there's a change in format as the conference is going on the road, visiting a city every other day through all of next week.  There's a fairly good line ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/05/29/is-it-cos-i-is-european/ The other day, on my 31st birthday of all days, I can only have what can be described as a "stupid  bint" drive into the back of my Mini Cooper.  Fast forward a few days, and I find myself stood in the foyer of my local Enterprise Rent a Car ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/05/27/talking-to-the-old-duffers/