Monkinetic Weblog

Jim Roepcke has a new development blog, Willing To Fail ("Fearless Research & Development"), and he's been writing about a new project he's working on, Rails on Rules. It's an implementation of a rules engine for Ruby on Rails applications, based loosely on the engine in Direct To Web, a rules-based application framework for Apple's WebObjects.

I can't remember if I posted about this when I put up the "On This Day In..." widget, but I finally got my widgets (both On This Day In... and the hCard About Box) into the public monkinetic widgets repository. Browse the repository here.

I was looking at that last post, and noticed a change in applications menus:

Engadget:

About 3 months ago I was transferred to a new group at work, to help them finish up a release, then to start in on some new features. Well, we are about one week from release, and we're in crunch mode. Because of the increased focus, and stress, posting here has almost dried up! Sorry about that.

The iPhone wannabes have already started. This one has "TouchFLO&trademark". smirk