here is a simple deployment shell script (.sh) using rsync to deploy your local application to a productive location.

You can download it here.

Follow the README file for setup and usage.

Feedback comments are always welcome :)

don’t your clients always ask for some specific details on their Location markers on google maps? Ours do.
So, in order to shorten our workload, we’ve developed a small handy tool to create a quick customized map using some of the upcoming FallForward game tech.

This small tool is posted at http://9tree.net/tools/GMLocation/ and it is completely free to use.

We’ll be updating it as we need more features for our clients.
Next feature will probably be support for multiple Location markers.

Hope you guys like it ;)

For our current project we required some neat instant user notifications, therefore we created a simple Growl-inspired notification system using Mootools.

Now updated for IE6 compatibility!

Download it here!

The package contains a sample.html very self-explanatory for most users;

Just include the js_growl.js and the js_growl.css files in your page’s header and send a user notification whenever you need using:

JS_Growl.notify('Your text or content html goes here.');

Any bugs/features just give me a comment, i’ll check it out ;)

i’ve used firefox for development for quite some time now, but on a mac i’ve always liked Safari better for regular web browsing, as it always been much faster and cute.

But the recently released Firefox 3 for Mac really changed my mind. It is, without a doubt, awesome. Runs perfectly smoothly, really nice design, fastest browser ever.

Firefox 2 versions really dragged around with heavy Javascript applications such as Gmail or our upcoming FallForward, but this new version handles javascript even better than Safari 3.
This release has been a really nice boost for my web browsing as i’ve not been much into the latest beta versions of Firefox 3.

The bad part is Firebug still hasn’t come out on it’s official release for Firefox 3. However, i’m using the beta and it works really nice – and everything is perfect again.

A “must have” indeed.

Great work for the guys at Mozilla!!
By the way, great website design for http://www.mozilla.com ;)

- ok, so it’s a biased opinion… :/

NaturePhp itself is basically a plug-in system for the coolest functionalities around – most of the upcoming functionalities are either gathered from wordpress, joomla!, CodeIgniter and others, as well as a few of our own – *and a few RubyOnRails original ideas implemented in php ;)

The functionalities are organized into classes, and the classes are organized into namespaces, providing a great deal of “space” for future plug-in developments.
It uses __autoload() for all classes, meaning it is just as fast no matter how many plug-ins you have installed.
NaturePhp does not aim being labeled as a framework, but, being a pluggable toolkit itself, it allows future developers to build their own frameworks as plug-ins. – The idea is to provide a stable ground for common development and lot’s of easy to use functionalities for developers – much like Phyton’s libraries.

We are currently using Namespace_Class::method() instead of Namespace::Class::method() and Class::callStatic($func_name, [$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) instead of Class::func_name([$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) to workaround the lack of “Namespaces” and method overloading “__callStatic()” support on PHP 5.2.6, as these two features are required for most of the toolkit functionalities.
It’s ugly, but it keeps the toolkit usable and developed while we wait for PHP 5.3.0.

As soon as PHP 5.3.0 comes out we’ll implement the necessary namespaces and change all the Class::callStatic($func_name, [$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) calls to Class::func_name([$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) – so probably a couple of weeks after PHP 5.3.0′s release we’ll have a NaturePhp 0.1 out ;)

While we wait, we’re also finishing the NaturePhp’s website at http://naturephp.org ;

Well, ironically, the corporate need for resources has given us a peaceful answer to quest for our need for knowledge – the internet revolution, specifically with the web 2.0 innovations.

But what about reliability?

Click here to view the embedded video.

Imho the different opinions and points of view now show us what the world is really like. It’s not that everything on the internet is reliable – true. But the mix of the many different point’s of view on a subject allows us to define our own answer. In the internet you are your own “gatekeeper”.
Let’s face it, there will always be opposites, but there is a reason to everything everyone says – may it be environmental, corporative, physical, a thought, a feeling, or even a stupid comment.
The gathering of all this controversial information gives you – for yourself – an answer.
Truth itself, as we get it, is environmental and never absolute.
And if knowledge is just an organized gathering of information – web 2.0 is knowledge.

Some may say “What about expert knowledge?”.
Expert knowledge usually has a problem – the expert.
If the expert manages to step aside his own ideology, his expert knowledge will truly be the reasoned combination of all points of view.
But let’s face it, i’ve never seen this happening – every information is controlled.
But if we clash this controlled information from it’s various counterparts, we might get a clearer view of the so called “truth”.
All we need is as many angles as possible – and on the internet, everyone can have and is free to post their experience.
Wikipedia for example, works very hard trying to combine all these point’s of view and keep itself away from the discussion, but a decision must always allow some content to be posted – their only error imho is not to empathize more on the related discussions for each article – still, they’re one of the best information sources in the world.

The so feared violence of an anarchic system is now shielded behind an anonymous computer and long distances and the perfect environment for a real peaceful anarchy now exists on the virtual world.
Of course this release of the “i” requires understanding by the “others”.

When you read something, take it as another’s concept, not as a truth.
Read many concepts and you’ll innerly find your own.

Google, read, blog, comment, and pass it along.

Quite an amazing work.

Visit Li Wei’s website for more details and photos.