When Ruby on Rails was first introduced, nothing helped put it on the map more than the now famous “Creating a weblog in 15 minutes” screencast. It showed the power of the framework in a quick and easy to digest way, and has since been emulated by other frameworks. Now, it’s been updated.

There are now 10,000 applications on the iPhone App Store, but just how many of them are good and worth your time? As more and more developers flock to the platform for a chance to make a buck, the noise level will inevitably rise. Is app fatigue right around the corner for users?

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Hosts: Brad Williams, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank
News topics covered on this episode:
Yahoo! Launches BrowserPlus, Plans to Open Source It (SitePoint)
Microsoft: 100 Million Silverlight Downloads in 4 Weeks (SitePoint)
Amazon Announces CloudFront: Affordable CDN Service (Amazon)
Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference (SitePoint)
Adobe: Demo video
Main Show [...]

Australia’s government is about to launch a mandatory nationwide censoring plan that some say is even more technically aggressive than the net filters in Iran. Citizens in Australia aren’t taking it lying down, though, with many groups launching campaigns to protest the censorship.

The following is reprinted from the SitePoint Tribune, Issue #423
I’ve just started using Twitter, the microblogging service, as a way to help build my online brand. So far I have 32 followers. One of them is the Prime Minister of Australia.
Hmmmmm. Now I’m a little nervous.
I’m about to write my business’s online newsletter, and the [...]

A quick shout out to any web developers based in Sydney, Australia—if you haven’t bought your tickets to Web-blast ‘08 (the end-of-year get-together for the Sydney web industry next Friday evening) then it’s not too late—about 90 tickets remain!
Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community - bringing together web designers, web project [...]

The following is reprinted from the SitePoint Design View, Issue #52
Mac users will no doubt be aware of Coda, the popular text editor for building web pages from scratch.
One reason Coda is so popular is because it brings the workflow for building a web page into a single window — you can browse, edit, preview, [...]

Of all the eye-catching tools on hand for creating a site, few possess the elegance and simplicity of a good chart. Unfortunately for me, it had been quite sometime since I’d had the opportunity to work with charts on the Web, so when a recent project tasked me with building the report infrastructure for a JavaScript [...]