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

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: Mehr …

Until June 27th the startup duduku.de is auctioning itself at eBay – including domains, trademark, web 2.0 application, design and company.
Until now, dukudu.de is running the beta of their twitter-like friend information service. You can inform your different circles of friends via a Web- and SMS-based interface: What you are actually doing … or what is going on right now.
The project team did not manage to get the needed capital for a nationwide rollout and the team also separates for private reasons. It’s a great pity!
Some interesting facts for developers: dukudu.de was realized in PHP, based on the CakePHP-framework, and MySQL. They use inbound-SMS numbers from mobilant.de in Germany … at least in beta mode.

Sources: basicthinking.de, Auction: ebay.de

Update:
The German internet company allesklar.com AG bought dukudu for 36,309.24 Euro (without VAT). Not bad.

Yesterday, the WorldWideDeveloperConference (WWDC) started in San Francisco. Steve Jobs kicked off the event with his traditional keynote. After announcing Safari for Windows he came up with one last thing: How to write iPhone applications. And it’s easy: If your app runs in Safari, it will run on an iPhone, too. As a developer, you can access with your web 2.0 AJAX applications also iPhone functionalities like "making a phone call" or "sending an email". We’ll see what Apple will make accessible in detail.

Source: Apple press release, Steve Jobs keynote