Niket Patel

Suddenly websites started to look distinctive only by fonts. Such as,

• Dive Into Html5
• BERT-RPC
• This site

Thanks to Typekit.

iPhone app approval process was stupid, now reached to hilarious level.

Want proof? (http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/ninjawords)

UPDATE: (07 Aug 2009)
Apple is trying hard to improve situation
I’m happy to see this quick response from apple to Daring Fireball’s author John Gruber.

With just couple of changes this site became valid html5 site, from valid html4.
I think this is win of html5 over me, pragmatic standard.

Next I’m thinking to try video and audio elements.

Recently, We wanted to implement full text search.

First obvious tool that we tried was Sphinx but indexing speed of sphinx comes with great compromise for our use case. It doesn’t index arbitrary data from methods of model. Because the way it utilize sql to make faster indexing I guess.

Next choice was solr, and to use it with ruby I searched on github and found sunspot , we are still testing but initial reaction seems positive. Using it with Merb was painless mostly need to have look at sunspot_rails

I might have more information about its performance and stability soon.