So I just wanted to remind people that I’m still planning on going to the DC Startup Weekend. There’s some great ideas so I’m really looking forward to what other ideas get added. Check out the list of already growing cities that have committed to hosting a Startup Weekend.
I’m sure some of you have noticed the new design I’ve put to my blog. I decided that it was something that I wanted to do to spruce up my blog, and make it a little more “web2.0″ looking. I also wanted to make the post area a little bigger so that I could add videos that will actually be a little bigger in width and height. I also wanted to test out Skitch since I had got my invite this weekend. Please feel free to give me some feedback about the template and hopefully in the next day or so I’ll have up a quick little video about Skitch.
Check out what can be done with Jing on a Mac! I was talking around the office today and decided I wanted to know if Jing could capture the dashboard and some widgets. Guess I was right! The hint is that you need to use your hotkey, by default on a Mac it’s Command + Shift + 1.
So I’ve been looking through various tutorials and such trying to find something that protects comment spam. So far the only thing I’ve been able to come up with is Akismet. Us WordPress users know what Akismet is, but there’s some various tutorials out there that show us how to use Akismet in our ROR apps. There is a Akismet plugin that’s out there, but what I’ve found out there, things are either too hard to figure out myself, or they are confusing. So I’m wondering what other ROR developers are using to protect against comment spam. I have heard of people using different plugins for captchas, but I’m looking more for IUE (Initial User Experience) in my app then a user having to put in characters for a captchas. Is there anyone out there using something different? An easy way to implement things? Your knowledge would be muct appreciated. 
