Not too long ago Peter wrote about BrowserWar and the IEWarfare project. BrowserWar is now available as a Rails plugin at github.

Running rails applications with Apache has never been great. In the past, options have been (from best to worst):

• proxy to mongrel or another appserver using mod_proxy or mod_proxy_balancer
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MarkItUp! is a cool textile editor. It is fairly easy to integrate with Rails, but it relies on jQuery, so you must make the jQuery function calls and the Prototype function calls play nice with each other.                       &nbs... more »

A BrowserWar is coming soon to an interweb near you!

The source is available on Github, or there’s my fork of it.

Matt Long, of Sagebit, and I wrote it over the past few days. It will kick crappy browsers right in the face!!!

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Syntax coloring is awesome. How to do it easily in Mephisto? The pieces are all there. CodeRay is a wicked syntax highlighting library written in Ruby, included for free via the filtered_column_code_macro plugin in Mephisto.

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As I have stated in a previous blog post, the Google Maps API with the YM4R/GM plugin has provided us with great potential for our Cartabuzz project. However, Cartabuzz was recently and temporarily hindered by Goo... more »

One thing is usually true about developing any web application, it is always nice to have just a little bit more storage space. While developing Sagebit’s PICasso application, I realized that there are times when it is nice to have storage space not on your application and development machine. This is especially true if you expect to be ha... more »

We started scraping as part of the Mail Yeti project. We wanted to expand our functionality by searching other sites on the web against our incoming emails to begin building a useful database of hoax emails. As part of our response to users that submit suspicious emails, we wanted to give them some information regarding the chance their email could be a... more »

I’ve been reading a lot of books on web standards and the improvement of those standards. The rapid pace at which the web has evolved has left a gaping hole in what should be a standardized medium. There are plenty of governing bodies to create standards, but the sheer volume of the content on the web, the ease at which just about anyone can publish on the web, and the amount of new co... more »

A key element of Cartabuzz’s design was to display event locations clearly on a custom map. After weighing our options, we decided to use the Google Maps API to achieve this goal. Two rails plugins were also integrated to make the Google Map utilization easier:

• YM4R/GM, which wraps the Google Maps API... more »

We recently launched the second beta version Cartabuzz with a shiny new and interactive interface!

Cartabuzz.com is a new way to browse and explore events in Indianapolis. The goal of Cartabuzz is to make it fun and easy to find things to do in Indianapolis. Even if you already know what you’re doing this weekend, you might find somethin... more »

The new Sagebit blog is live at http://blog.sagebit.com and ready for action. If you want to learn about Sagebit and our Rails developing business, cruise over to http://www.sagebit.com. This blog is the home of tech. Look for all sorts of exciting posts here on our technical prowess!