If you were looking for a good reason to visit Amsterdam, now is your chance. On the 21st and 22nd of October the Ruby and Rails conference is taking place in Amsterdam.
Speakers are slowly lining up and Eloy and I were the first to enter the Rails Rumble .
For more information and registration see the website . I hope to meet you there!
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The current locations from which your website is monitored include Amsterdam ( Netherlands), Atlanta, GA ( U.S.), Chicago, IL ( U.S.), Copenhagen ( Denmark), Dallas, TX ( U.S.), Frankfurt ( Germany), Herndon, VA ( U.S.), Houston, TX ( U.S.), London ( U.K.), Los Angeles, CA ( U.S.), Montreal ( Canada), New York, NY ( U.S.), Stockholm ( Sweden) and Tampa, FL ( U.S.). In some locations, Pingdom employs multiple monitors.
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At last weekend's Amsterdam Music Hack Day the Echno Nest guys announced their new and extended API . The song API looks like it could be a lot of fun, allowing not only searches for songs by title/artist, but also similarity, loudness, tempo and a range of other attributes.
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Stuart Sierra, NYC ( USA) - stuartsierra
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Forzen Rails is organized by the guys from the HHLinuxCliub and kisko LABS . I've met them in Amsterdam back in October and we had a great time. I'm sure Frozen Rails will be too.
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My talk from Fronteers in Amsterdam last year, about my 50-line of code CSS animation framework Emile!
Watch the video If you like, grab the slides and the code at my previous post. My next appearance will be in beautiful New Zealand, at the ever-amazing Webstock conference in Wellington ( Feb 14-19). If you're around and don't have your [...]
It's time for another ‘ Morning coffee' meeting. You're invited to come chat with your fellow web developers over a nice cup of coffee.
‘Morning coffee' meeting
When: Thursday, February 4th, 2010, 9:30 AM
Where: The Coffee Company on the corner of the Nieuwe Doelenstraat and the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam .
Please leave a comment if you're coming, any questions you might have are welcome too.
- Topics: Morning
Recently we have been having problems with DNS not resolving with our companies broadband provider. I looked at some open source DNS services, the best one being OpenDNS, but despite them having a couple of boxes in Amsterdam the lookups are still somewhat slow.
So the solution? Create our own DNS server
This is how [...]
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