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13-May: Train Power!

Today I was at the Google office in Amsterdam, to shadow a training session directed to some of my users (aka, the users of the project I work on). Even though the training wasn’t directed at me, I learned an important lesson. Use the trains!

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Tue May 13 10:42:34 EDT 2008

16-Apr: Borg now supports Google Talk chatback

A new feature is now available on Borg is available! Borg is the software which is responsible for this whole site and it’s based on Ruby On Rails. Check this link for further info. You can now integrate a live chat on your pages using the Google Talk Chatback feature.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Wed Apr 16 09:32:54 EDT 2008

16-Apr: OpenID and Rails authentication on DevX.com

DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to OpenID and how to integrate OpenID authentication with Ruby on Rails 2.0. Read the full artile OpenID and Rails: Authentication 2.0 , or see my full list of articles for other topics.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Wed Apr 16 07:54:40 EDT 2008

17-Mar: Closing down Gullery and replacing with Railtrackr

Loyal to the good practice of eating your own dogfood I have removed from this site my old Gullery image viewer and replaced it with my own Railtrackr . Now the link images.battlehorse.net points to my Flickr photosets.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Mon Mar 17 12:19:47 EDT 2008

16-Mar: RailTrackr.com is now live! Developers welcome!

RailTrackr, a web 2.0 Flickr photo browser, is now live and available to everybody on Railtrackr.com ! In addition to that, a new development website has been started to support Railtrackr. Railtrackr is currently opensource and will remain so. Developers are very welcome and I invite you to join the project at Railtrackr Devsite (hosted on assembla.com). The project page on this website won’t receive further updates and will point to the new development website.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Sun Mar 16 07:26:27 EDT 2008

12-Mar: RailTrackr article has been published on DevX

DevX.com has published my latest article, an introduction to Ruby on Rails 2.0 that uses RailTrackr as a sample application to describe the topic. See my full list of articles for other topics.

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Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Wed Mar 12 10:56:14 EDT 2008

10-Mar: RailTrackr: Rails 2.0 meets Flickr!

RailTrackr is a brand new project I’m working on. It is a Rails that merges together rails 2.0 with Flickr APIs to provide a stunning visual experience to navigate Flickr photosets.

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Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Mon Mar 10 20:43:27 EDT 2008

27-Jan: A new Borg version: Web 2.0 Tagging!

A new version of Borg is available! Borg is the software which is responsible for this whole site and it’s based on Ruby On Rails. Check this link for further info.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Mon Jan 28 01:06:10 EST 2008

23-Jan: Photos from the Las Vegas and other places.

Go and visit my images gallery . I’ve added some photos from the weekend (19-21 Jan, 2008) I’ve spent in Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and Death Valley with my colleagues. We’ve probably spent most of the time driving (we decided both to the Grand Canyon and from Vegas back to San Francisco), but it was definitely worth!

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Mon Jan 28 01:06:10 EST 2008

15-Jan: Gullery and Photographs

At last I’ve been able to install Gullery on my hosting. That means that from now on you’ll be able to access a lot of photographs here on images.battlehorse.net. I’ve just added some photos from my current stay in California. Integration between Borg and Gullery is under planning.

Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Mon Jan 28 01:06:10 EST 2008

12-Jan: Winter in Mountain View

This is the kind of winter temperature that I like :-) , 14 degrees celsius in January. Sunny. No coats needed. Update: more images here .

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Last modified by: Riccardo Govoni [ battlehorse at gmail dot com ] at Mon Jan 28 01:06:10 EST 2008