Hey everyone. Some of you may be aware of my site directory Hegemony. I've recently been working on a rewrite of it using Ruby on Rails. What I have so far is at my new domain, and I thought you might like to try it out. :) It'll be like beta testing, and once I'm sure I have the kinks worked out, I'll have 3till7.net/hegemony redirect to there, so you'll hopefully start getting hits from it.

Because I enjoy wasting time online and thebeststuffintheworld is a great way to do it, I added Perfection to it. See this page. :)

So it's possibly not more exciting news than the German Wikipedia fix, buuuut... I have a new layout! I debated posting it here, but 1) it's news, 2) it's definitely related to web design, and 3) everyone loves getting feedback on their designs, including myself. :) So, if you want to check it out, it's at 3till7.net. I've tested it in Firefox, Opera, and Safari on OS X.

Is anyone a Ruby on Rails fan? I love the framework and the beautiful language that is Ruby, too. I first met up with it when doing a co-op at Lexmark, when I had to use it to create an app that would interact with a MySQL DB, show some printer comparison data, and generate images of tables. I've been hooked ever since, because it's so syntactically clean and just plain logical. I've written a couple of things about Rails that may be of interest to other users: go from model to associated table name and back and The Power of 'yield' in Ruby.