Whew. The web-and-other-things conference [Reboot](http://www.reboot.dk/) is over for this year. I attended, this my second year, with some notion of what to expect. Meeting people again was a hit. I got to meet Flash guy and music composer [Niko Nyman](http://nnyman.com/) of Helsinki, and many other HKI folks. [Jyri Engeström](http://zengestrom.com) was wearing thin-golden-rimmed glasses which made …
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Ruby: Local Club to Join
This WednesdayTuesday, 23th of May 2006, is the second [meeting of SSRUG](http://www.rails.se/rails/show/SSRUG+Meeting+2). A _Clubb_ for you to join, and meet with other Ruby enthusiasts in the ‘hood. Time: 1900 hours. Place: see the above wiki link. Lennart (of _Lund Agile Languages User Group_ fame) will be there, and we’ll try and get as many heads …
Danish entrepreneur initiates boycot on Jutland daily
[Mygdal](http://www.bootstrapping.net/living/001406.html) says it: > I’ll never again in my lifetime spend a single cent buying the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. **+1**.
Railsers for beer
[Albert](http://albert.delamednoll.se/), of the South Swedish Rails community, noted he’d be travelling to talk Ruby on Rails, and that secretly he [wished for a community nearby](http://albert.delamednoll.se/articles/2006/01/11/travelling-in-the-name-of-rails). Why the heck not. This is an open invite for you, my buddies, who are using Ruby on Rails (for anything) to come have a sit-down with other Rails users. …
Ernie The Attorney: Web-designer needed for New Orleans project
Ernie The Attorney gives a work-for-free tip to web designers: get involved with [Backstreet Cultural Museum](http://www.neworleansmuseums.com/multiculturalmuseums/backstreet.html) in New Orleans, and present their collection of Mardi Gras Indian costumes. Very interesting stuff.
Technical “news”: New WordPress running this blog
Yes, now I’ve gone and done it: upgraded my blog to WP2. Took me a while to think it up, but now it’s done. Took me all of 10 minutes. 10 other minutes were used to back my files and database up. I know this for a fact since I wrote it down, and I’m …
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Mapping fun for your blog
Now testing FeedMap, another geo-location + blogs application on the web. Via [Daen](http://www.daen.dk/)’s sidebar.
More useful JS: Prototype revisited
OK, for those of you watching from the sidelines, remember when we talked about the Prototype framework, and I said it could be done slicker? I am now correcting those little errors. First of all, I was not using enough parts of Prototype, and so I was doing unnecessary stuff, and also, I was leaving …
Drupal + CakePHP = Drake
Tutorial for using Drupal and CakePHP together, written by Felix Geisendörfer. A match made in heaven?
DHH handles trollish comments well
Yeah, [Ruby on Rails is 1.0](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2005/12/13/rails-1-0-party-like-its-one-oh-oh) Someone comments on the project’s website running PHP: > How’s this deployment of PHP based “RoR website†related to believing in your own technology, I ask? And the project lead answers: > We’re running PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby on this machine. Picking and choosing for whatever task is …