Safari 4: Google clonium?

Both Google chrome(chromium) and safari use webkit, but why on earth did apple make an almost 1 on 1 copy of chrome?

Can't say I don't like it :D

Maybe they should work on making the inspect element thing more like firebug.

Google Reader revamp

I just noticed the UI of google reader got a relift.

The subscription folders are more clear and the whole site seems a bit faster

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Wanted: Icons in the favorites list of the iPhone

The Phone-application of my iPhone has this nice favorites list. However it is text-only, and I have all these nice pictures of the people in my phone. So how can I tell the Phone application to show a grid of thumbnails of my contacts?.

sigh.

Phusion Passenger / mod_rails

I was running some mongrel_clusters until today. :) I had read about phusion a couple of times, but only now I took a few minutes to install it.

Some things went wrong at first (no rake in $PATH, missing some packages) but the installer notified me about that. Very nice.

Installing was a breeze, so now our rails apps run in apache with mod_rails (passenger). We still proxy and serve static content with nginx though.

Next step: Enterprise ruby, or some other VM

Hudson rocks

Last week I've implemented Hudson as our buildserver. Previously, we were using Luntbuild (and cruisecontrol).

The installation was a breeze. Installing it as a service was just a click away. We did have some problems with SSL when installing several plugins, so we donwloaded them from theinternet manually.

Hudson is a very neat tool, which integrates with http://www.redmine.org

thumbs up!

A tiny solution to the email problem: Notification headers

This is something I was thinking about some time ago... Some of my emails aren't really emails, but system messages. Stuff like "Import failed or succeeded" or a password change request email. Also, most of those emails are only valuable during a brief period of time (The log email of an importer isn't something you need to keep etc). What if there would be a mail header that specifies that an email is a notification email? We could do things like show a popup only on notification emails, automatically delete them if they're read or when expire.

Just curious if there already is such a header and what you think about it.

Switched from putty to poderosa

I just discovered poderosa. A terminal client. I've used putty for ages, but it doesn't have tabs, local cygwin connections and, very important, the ability to save passwords.

Poderosa has it all. The only downside is that it uses .NET, so it isn't as lean as putty. + I don't like the office 2003-like menu bars.