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This morning’s OpenCoffee Club Dublin was streamed live on ustream.tv, following in the footsteps of Limerick’s OCC. You can read reviews of the event from the participants and from the viewers. Some reported technical difficulties to either get the stream or participate in the chat room but overall the feedback is quite positive. As a participant I must admit I felt a bit camera conscious!

Alistair, Eoghan, Paul at the OCC Dublin

I found this little pearl of FUD in METRO:

Four in every five blogs on popular websites contain potentially offensive content, such as pornography, new research claims. Computer software firm ScanSafe, which commissioned the report, also found more than one in every 20 blogs, especially popular with children and teenagers, contain potentially catastrophic computer viruses, spyware or other harmful programmes¹ that can steal private or confidential information. It also found that more than half of all children surveyed had looked at websites carrying adult material.

— METRO — Monday, April 23, 2007 — page 9.

I have only one thing to add: BOO!

1. I left the typo… I didn’t want to pervert the original message!

The RubyIreland group finally has a website of its own! Aidan Finn, Chris McGrath and I put in a group effort to come up with this little gem (I just couldn’t resist the pun!):

RubyIreland.com is powered by Mephisto, on a cluster of Mongrel. We use the Lucid theme (check out the color changing widget for a more Irish theme!). I am quite proud of my effort on the logo, a bit less with the tagline!

A couple of weeks back, I mentioned I was developing a simple Rails application for Spoiltchild. Well, the big day has finally arrived! Alan announced the launch of www.whenismywedding.com yesterday.

www.whenismywedding.com helps people produce banners that count down the days to their wedding dates, and assist them to integrate these banners with their blogs, websites, myspace, bebo, emails, etc. Like this:

A simple idea executed simply and elegantly. Thanks to Alan for making the site look so good, for sharing ideas, advices and jokes, and for praising my work.

For the past few weeks, I have been working on a small Rails project in partnership with Alan O’Rourke from Spoiltchild. I have been a fan of his work for quite a while and I was looking forward to team up for the occasion. I haven’t been disappointed: I have learned tons, met some smart and interesting people and, most of all, it’s been fun.

Apparently, Alan enjoyed it too:

Olivier Ansaldi did the development and asked all the right questions during the process. If you are looking for a developer i cannot recommend him enough.

— Alan O’Rourke, Spoiltchild

All will be revealed soon…