Ben Maurer has devised a simple JavaScript that will create a free/busy schedule using Google Calendar and JSON. This is perfect if you want to publicly make your schedule available while only giving details on whether you are free or busy. This mimics some of the functionality that you find in Outlook of course, but I think people are going to like this alternative, primarily because so many people do not have Outlook installed on their Mac laptops. A free/busy schedule application like this has crossed my mind several times and I applaud Maurer for going forward and developing it. I predict he sees huge interest in it.
Evaluation – Rails vs Django
Rails vs Django is a nice evaluation of the two most popular web application frameworks. Rails uses the Ruby scripting language while Django uses the Python scripting language. Both are very capable and offer a unique set of features. This evaluation shows you how long it took to write the application and compares the lines of code along with some syntactical differences. I think this article has been much needed for a while and to the credit of the author(s) ( is not attributed to any particular person at all, as far as I can see), the execution here is as thorough as you would have hoped. It’s an extremely professional evvaluation of both frameworks and I think if you have any experience with either you’ll enjoy it.