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Gave a small presentation at the Rails Show And Tell meeting. I covered Web services with Rails. Actually it was more a of an introduction to Web Services, it was a lightning talk anyway :) The Rails online manuals has a nice chapter on Web Services. This article also shows what you can expect when doing cross language WS.

The rest of my talk was about a number of production applications we are doing on Rails. I talked a bit about Beldienst.nl and RADNS (Intranet only). You can download the slides. The guys from Fingertips made audio recordings which should hopefully show up somewhere next week.
Overall I’d say the event was a big success, lots of cool talks, and of course interesting chatter with fellow Rails enthousiasts. Thanks to IT from Greenpeace for letting us use their basement :)

Update: Thijs has now made available the audio feeds with slides.

My Macbook Pro 15” arrived this afternoon. Specs:

2.16 Core Duo model
1GB RAM
100 GB 7200rpm hard drive

So far it’s rocking!! Really like Front Row and the remote thingy, ambient light sensor is very cool, and the illuminated keyboard is quite pleasant. Yep, it gets quite hot and you’ll get roasted nutts (sorry) if you treat this thing as a laptop, it is not!!! The built-in camera is quite innovative. Perhaps video conferencing will really take off now? Or was a simply not on the boat already? More on this baby later as the other baby needs our attention now :-)

..but do they deliver on saturdays, or weekdays only? As the saying goes:

“Aaarghhh, the suspense is killing me!”

-p3t0r; early 21st century java developer

W00t! Finally, Google Earth for Linux! Seems to work very well, only tested on zooming into my home in Suriname :) Lots of fun ahead!