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A plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows you to program Ruby on Rails, called Sapphire in Steel, not sure what the reference to steel is all about ?

A blub from the FAQ

Steel is a free Ruby language add-in for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005. It provides an editing environment for Ruby programs complete with syntax colouring and the ability to run console applications with one keystroke.

Go Forth if your that way inclinded….

Speaking very passionately last night at the Wifi Oyster Bar in Makati With Allan he drove home the two very things that burn so brightly in my chest.

• We aim with the release of our next engine (code name Leviticus) to have a single digital ID across multiple sites.
• millions of markets of dozens not a dozen market of millions.

• We have nearly 450 builds of the Genesis Engine representing many man hours of work. We need to use this with more Passionate Communities.
• Our new engine (code name: Leviticus) needs to get out.
• Hunter has created Prometheus Fire our team of developers and innovators the sole purpose is to create and release these tools.
• Mybennu.com (a web 2.0 career and life management tool) development mashes we have the ability to create multiple log ins to multiple employment sites, so that a user can in effect search any job board in the world. Nothing too cool, we have had this for over 3 years now…its not the technology its the proper application.

Allan does what others talk about- he has his own web development team, they have built and delivered a complete set of tools, mashed with google maps for example letting property owners know where units are- (the other powerful tools that this can do are really mind blowing as we only see vast oceans of opportunity here)

Hunter is reading Good To Great, Hans is reading Execution The Discipline of Getting things done, I am rereading tipping point, and wisdom of crowds… anyway this trip has been one wrought with discovery, action, humility and crazy clarity.

what will next month bring…?

Manila is full of things happening in the internet community. Blog conferences, Java conferences, web training and a great community all around.

Today we have been invited to the Adobe User Group – Philippines to give a talk on Web2.0, Search and Ruby on Rails. An exciting chance to speak to another group about our passions.

We have a webcam covering the training event in Manila for those who can’t make it. It will be online between the hours of 8:30am and 6pm Manila Time until Wednesday.

Update: Webcam moved to a later post

Maybe I shouldn’t be suprised but its hard to believe that things have grown so much with Web2.0. SEOmoz has just gone through and reviewed over 300 Web2.0 sites and given them ratings and awards in the Web 2.0 Awards. While there are a lot of familiar names there are a few new ones that have crept under the radar. Its great coming across some great pieces of work out there.

In development news a new version of Ruby on Rails has been released, in only a few months this new version has some new and amazing features. There are too many great ones to name but what is most impressed me is the new capabilities for web services. XML based web services can be added whilst building html and ajax pages. Elegant, fast and easy to do, my prediction is that there will be a lot of new services out there to talk to very shortly. Now where can I find myself a few spare minutes to add web services to our engine.

Great to see that there are more developers working with Rails over here in Australia. Via an article on Computerworld (and the rails blog) comes School Seek, a portal for locating Schools.

After a successful Ruby on Rails workshop at WebDU, I’m looking forward to seeing all the talent around here producing some great sites. Anyone else out there in Australia doing exciting work?