Three years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson published the first release of Ruby on Rails to the public. The paradigmatic shift of programming web applications in an elegant, pragmatic way is a present to all of us. It’s fun to draft and scaffold an application, to do rapid application prototyping. It’s even a pleasure to read RoR code. Enough puff piece for today … thank you, David, for starting the revolution … and thanks to the whole RoR-community for making it a web development revolution

Many developers started to experiment with iPhone specific interfaces for their applications (like 37 signals TaDa List) or even new applications for the mobile phone (like the dashboard-like widget-launcher gridget from CulturedCode).
Apple completed their developer resources for the iPhone. They now provide also sample code in the Apple Developer Connection besides the iPhone web development guidelines discussed before. "Puzzler" is a fun-app that shows how to create a web application with JavaScript and different mouse-handlers for user-input.
Joe Hewitt created “iUI”, an iPhone web application development bundle. Don’t worry - it sound complicated, but it isn’t . It just helps developers to create iPhone applications with the iPhone look and feel with JavaScript and CSS.
I cannot wait to get the iPhone in Europe!

The most important thing at a conference is the time between the sessions and presentations. There you meet the interesting people, have the best discussions and socialize with others. Sure, the quality of the presentations has to bee high, too. But the "in beween" is the heart of every great conference. To cultivate that "in between" the Berliner Ruby User Group invites the Ruby on Rails community to meet one day before the RailsConf Europe starts in Berlin. They’ll organize a Bratwurst-on-Rails event, also vegetarians can join Great idea! Everybody who joins the conference should should register for the Bratwurst-on-Rails socializing on September 16th 2007 and celebrate the Rails community! Thanks in advance for organizing that event!

Picture: bratwurst-on-rails.com

Apple just released some insights for iPhone web developers - and everybody who wants to optimize his website or web application for the iPhone will find valuable tips inside. Some remarkable facts: Read the rest of this entry »

Hard times, especially for German mobile and online muisc start-ups. Accourding to the GEMA, the German authors’ society for music, the ringtone company Jamba did a great job at BITKOM, the German Association for Information Technology,
Telecommunications and New Media: The GEMA framework agreement for all BITKOM members is terminated. Now every company has to negotiate by itself for the specific music rights they need. Read the rest of this entry »