I would be doing a disservice to this man by trying to sum up what he departed onto his audience so I encourage you to watch it. It’s an hour and twenty minutes long, but just watch the first 5 minutes… I’m sure you’ll stay for the whole thing.

“The more friends you have within online social networks and mmorpgs, the less likely you are to have real friends in the real world.”

I name this The Law of Inverse Online Friends. (If anyone can think of a better name, please share it with me)

Now, I know people may get upset with that law because of 2 things: First, that is definitley not a tautology (in the logical meaning) and second, who am I to say what a ‘real’ friend is? If you are one of those people, then relax, you are exempt from this law. Just take the stick out of your ass and get a life

[update:  Since the posting of this article, I have quadrupled my friends in facebook… ]

Rails 2.0 has depricated the ActionMailer::Base.server_settings= function and opted for the more aptly named smtp_settings. So just use this for your settings and you’ll be okay.

ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 587,
  :domain => "mycompany.com",
  :authentication => :plain,
  :user_name => "username",
  :password => "password"
}

Also don’t forget, your username will be your FULL email address (e.g. funkydude@mycompany.com)

def random_numeric_string
	length = 1000000000
	(rand(length)+(length)).to_s[1..9]
end

If anyone has a better way, please let me know.

Textmate > Bundles > Bundle Editor > Show Bundle (or just hit ctrl-opt-cmd B)

Select Languages in the drop down menu

Go to Ruby on Rails > HTML (Rails)

On the second line just change the code from:

fileTypes = ( 'rhtml');

to

fileTypes = ( 'rhtml', 'erb' ); #For backwards compatability

and you should be good to go…

P.S. here’s a link to a code snippet that will allow you to change all of your rhtml file extensions to html.erb (warning: I have not yet tested this so use at your own risk)

I was out in Mountain View, CA at the IIW this past week and I had a chance to meet some of the authors of this protocol. It was really great to see some of the people behind this great step forward in securing users’ data on the web. More work is to follow by enhancing the protocol through extensions.

The OAuth community already has libraries in PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, C#, and Perl. For more information about the OAuth protocol visit http://oauth.net.

Check out Chris Messina and Eran Hammer-Lehav giving a brief description of OAuth in this video.

Some of yesterday’s presenters were Dick Hardt, CEO of SXIP, who gave his famous presentation on Identity and Doc Searle, who spoke on VRM (Vendor Relationship Management).

While we are here we are trying to get short video interviews on with some of the big names in Identity, find out who they are and what problems they are working to solve.  So far we were able to get Terrell Russell from ClaimID, Joseph Smarr from Plaxo, and David Recordon from Six Apart.

Today I’m gonna sit in on the OAuth Extensions group as the core protocol is being released as final I think today.

You can catch the blog posting at the Rails weblog here. To learn more about the new features you should follow the link to the original Preview Release posting.

Also, you can check out Ryan Daigle’s blog  to find out specific feature updates. Be sure to look for the topic “What’s new in Edge Rails.”