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So you are building your AJAX-enabled web site and want a nice animated gif to indicate to your users that something is happening behind the screen.
You google for images and all you find are those traditional black and white animated gifs. What if you need it in blue background and yellow foreground? Like this nice one below... ;)

Well, just go here and generate your image just the way you need it!

Mozilla Labs have some cool projects. I found the Ubiquity project specially interesting.
It is supposed to understand what a user wants to do instead of what they want to find. It will allow people to interact with mashups in a much more natural way, enhancing the web experience. It still relies on the user knowing which mashups, but it seems very promising, specially if they release an API.

If you need to update any gem in your system and you get some strange error message like the one below, maybe all you need to do is upgrade your RubyGems component.

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
              HTTP Response 403

I got the above error message when running the following command:

gem update --system

Another symptom that you need to upgrade your RubyGem is if you notice that the system responds different versions for your components:.
For instance, if you get this...

One of the most interesting usages I found on using Twitter is being able to keep up to the ideas and thought of the most influential people on the IT business in a pace that would never be possible by buying magazines, articles or RSS feeds.
So I built a list with the top 10 most interesting people to follow if you are interested in IT, internet, programming, geek stuff etc. You can just check my twitter list with all of them or read below.

I found this nice article which proposes a ready-to-use debug popup window. All you have to do is add a simple command at the end of your application layout and a popup will show all the information regarding the request, session, response, flash variables and more.

Quick way to debug your web application.

Cheers!