TextDrive seeks to sweeten control with Rails application.
TextPanel is the name of TextDrive’s effort to modernize Webmin and the whole of branch of control panel software. They’re hard at work on it.
And it’s going to be a Rails application, of course. Like all the other
management software they’re building over there. The first we’ll see of
TextPanel [...]

Taking Ajax higher with next Rails release.
Thomas Fuchs has been doing awesome work building on top of Prototype (the Javascript engine driving Ajax in Rails) to bring us script.aculo.us: Better effects and drag’n’drop capabilities. Together with the upload progress enhancements
from Sean Treadway, we’re going to have a big upgrade to the Ajax
capabilities of Rails in [...]

Asterisk. By nat
Asterisk
is amazing. I remember PBX systems being the mainframes of the business
telephony world: huge expensive systems that trapped you with a vendor.
Now you can bring up a Linux box to manage your company's voice systems
in a matter of days, with more features than you could afford in
hardware. Maddog said
it'd be bigger than Linux [...]

Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms.

When I had dinner recently with InfoWorld Contributing Editor Phil
Windley, he put his finger on something I've been trying to nail down
for years. Like me, Phil works mainly in a home office, is married to a
nongeek, and is often called on to deliver spousal tech support.
From his wife's perspective, Phil said, [...]

microformats.org Launched.
Officially announced at Supernova2005
earlier this week, a new community-based site has been launched to be
the official home for microformats — with a logo and simple site
design from SimpleBits.
microformats.org
contains anything and everything you'd want to know about microformats,
how to implement them, who's involved, and how to join the conversation
regarding a new way of thinking about [...]

NeoOffice/J 1.1 Finally Released.
After
five years of development, NeoOffice/J is finally released. From the
announcement (found in a NeoWiki cache):
The goal of NeoOffice/J is to provide an entirely free and complete Mac
OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project –
only with the look-and-feel you'd expect from any Macintosh
application. … [a million monkeys typing]

OPML.
 

Tinderbox 2.5 imports OPML — an XML interchange format for outlines.
If you've got an OPML file that would be nice to import into Tinderbox, send it along and we'll test it.  [Mark Bernstein]

Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List.
Scott Hanselman has an awesome list of his favorite 120 developer and power tools.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails.
Word on the street is that popular webhost Dreamhost
now supports Ruby on Rails. That’s great news, especially if you’re
already married to DH and wants to do Ruby on Rails development. For
everyone else starting out or looking for a new host, the premier
choice for Rails hosting is naturally still TextDrive. They [...]

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big.
The Importance of RSS
“Unfortunately, Google’s well of good data is being poisoned by the likes of comment spammers, trackback spammers and adsense mongers. And while Google, the other search engines and the blog software community have been fighting the good fight with ideas like nofollow, Typekey and stop [...]