re-found the current rails tutorial, plus some news from Cork, Ireland, and around the web/twittersphere

Quanta accidentally begun to consume almost 100% of computing power. Which gives me some time to collect the bits and pieces I twittered about so far today.

First of all, the Cork, Ireland, conference I mentioned yesterday, actually seems to be two of them at once and at one place, one lasting for March 1 + 2, the other for March 3 + 4. Conference #1 was WebCamp, and number 2 is BlogTalk. As people went (and still) go on twittering about both of the events, I casually looked into the event’s schedule and found some interesting talks. When I looked last, there were no video recordings of the talks online already, but maybe we get some when this post is online.

Talks that caught my — not only private but also professional — attention were these:

• “Everyday body regimes: the construction of self in weblogs about dieting”
• “Semantic social software: the Semantic Web for consumers”
• “The long tail, and why multiple identities make it just a little bit longer”
• “Social blog: turning a blog into a decentralised social network”
• “int.ere.st: SCOT-based tag sharing services”

Some of the talks are available as Slides and some as videos. (The latter mentioned by a event twitterer — didn’t validate that one by myself.)
 

I re-found those links on Rails tutorials I were after at the weekend. Here are those three links being so important to me:

1. “Making a Link Manager (Part 1)”
2. “Rails on Edge : Rails Forum Tutorial for Beginners (Part 1 of 3)”
3. “Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials”

Link #1 is the one I suggest you when you’re done with getting Rails 2.0 up and running. That’s that one tutorial I am just going thru.
 

Remainder noticable bits:

• What’s Google’s Eric Schmidt’s view of an upcoming Web 3.0.
• a 10-part tutorial on writing a CMS/community using Smarty and Zend
• a mini tutorial on a simple technique to make photos look more brilliantly using Photoshop [de]

And, for everyone who didn’t know yet, Facebook’s about to enter the German market.