Swirrl Blog Roundup

Posted by Ric Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:47:00 GMT

Swirrl Logo Bill and I have posted some articles on SwirrlSpeak recently, which may also be of interest to readers of this blog.

We’ve discussed:

why the semantic web is important (and why it has as yet failed to take off),
why wikis can often be a better fit than bespoke software solutions,
how Software as a Service can save the planet,
why choosing good urls is so important,
and how forecasting the income of startups can be akin to examining chicken entrails.

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I'm Ric Roberts, a software developer from Manchester, UK. I built, and run, Swirrl. This is my personal blog, where I write about my adventures in technology, mostly focusing on Ruby on Rails. I also write for a few other blogs inluding Ruby Inside (scroll down the sidebar for more details).

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Swirrl is a web-native, online application for collaboration and managing information: a home for your data.

Originally written for use in Swirrl, grrid.js is an open source, pure javascript spreadsheet style grid, built on Prototype.js. Download the source from github.

Taskit is a plugin to allow you to schedule simple tasks for your rails app. Download the source from github.

SwirrlSpeak is Swirrl's blog. We post articles about business, the web, collaboration, Swirrl, and anything else we think you'll find interesting.

Please check out the Web of Data Blog. Bill, my Swirrl co-founder, writes about about how and why you should publish data on the web, in a way that lets machines read it as well as people.

I contribute to Quite Useful: a blog about useful stuff, written by a community of designers and programmers in the United Kingdom.

I blog a few times a week over at Ruby Inside with Ruby news, code links and tips.

I also write the occasional post for Think About Tech: a blog by technology journalists and industry insiders.

RicRoberts

Ruby on Rails developer and founder of swirrl.com