Oh my god, i just found something really cool and funny. Talkinator lets you integrate a real-time chat directly into your website. With only one line ;) Your website visitors can talk with each other or even with you now. But the best thing is:

The name of your Talkinator is very important. If you name your talkinator "MyRoom" and paste the code into your webpage, then anyone going to your page will enter that room. However, if someone else uses "MyRoom" as their talkinator room name on their webpage, then your two webpages will be in the same room!

Lets play .. Here is a chatroom for "Talky" for demonstration (note the funny random nicknames):

I proudly present the new logo of our ajaxed library. Just achieve a bit of identity ;) What do you think? Do you like it or is it just another web 2.0 logo :) Btw: I have just purchased ajaxed.org which will be the new home for ajaxed. A lot of tutorials, better documentation and version 2 is coming soon. Thanks again for all your support guys!

Did you ever run a popular website or serivce/product? If yes, then you know how hard it can be to discover which new features your users want. Collecting all the requests, giving response and analyzing which requests are most popular. All those tasks require a lot of organization and take some time. UserVoice offers a serivce which provides exactly those features. For your site visitors:

1. They submit ideas or vote for existing ideas
2. They discuss ideas with each other and with you
3. They get official reponse (featre planned, started, etc.)
4. They get heard!

Perfect service! Will definitely use it in my future projects...

As usual the guys at google have been busy and released a nice new feature for their (quite new) google chart api. It support 2D bar codes also known as QR codes. Whats more, they even offer a free decoding library for it (Xzing). Big respect googlers to your free APIs

Its long time ago since there has been an update to the JSON utility class. Thats because its working very stable thanks to your support! Nevertheless we have a new version with new features and some minor bugfixes. The following has been updated: read more...

Did you ever wanted to stay up to date with websites/pages which actually don't offer any feed(s)? Yeah me too! page2rss.com/ is our life saver. It let us subscribe to any webpage and thus monitor all its changes. I love it! my sleepless nights are gone now, cause i know i won't miss anything anymore ...

Just a quick post to let everybody know that i'm switching my erb templates over to HAML. All my css with SASS will follow. These two template engines enhance my productivity a lot. it's compatible with rails 2.

I must admit that there are still some issues like: No ruby code on multiple lines to format the code properly on very long ruby statements. And: HAML source code highlighting in netbeans plugin is quite old and not updated, but this doesnt stop me from using it.

just checkout the "showdown" on the bottom of the first page to get a feeling of HAML.

So now you know how to do nicely rounded div corners without using images or any javascript after reading this post.

But how do we integrate this nicely into our rails app? The following solution might not be perfect but that's what i'm using and like:
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I searched a lot to find this great solution for doing rounded borders with just CSS and no images. There are loads of solutions out there which use images to make the borders or doing some funky javascripts which take too much time on page load and the rounding is only applied after onload.

so thanks to Deathshadow for this great solution with pure CSS. just check out the link. there are the examples and the source needed.

Many of you already know that the FamFamFam icons are probably the most famous out there. At least i know plenty of apps using it - including me. Today i have found a new great icon set from pro theme design including 117 icons:

Get Circular Icons here