http://www.fridaytraffic.com mostly about ruby on rails, flex & flash Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:40:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The results from the 2008 Avusa Retails Awards for online retailers is somewhat mind boggling (score in brackets): 1 - eBucks (2.8) 2 - Kalahari.net (1.5) 3 - Amazon.com (1.3) 4 - Ebay (0.9) 5 - Interflora (0.6) 6 - Bid or Buy (0.3) 7 - Loot (0.2) Surely the above is not representative of the online retailing ... http://www.fridaytraffic.com/marketing-research-not-always-on-the-money/ I found this very informative post about lighttpd mod-rewrites for Wordpress, written by Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson. Create a file called wp-rewrite.conf in your lighttpd config folder: url.rewrite-once = ( "^" + wpdir + "(wp-.+).*/?" => "$0", "^" + wpdir + "(sitemap.xml)" => "$0", "^" ... http://www.fridaytraffic.com/lighttpd-rewrite-rules-for-wordpress/ Every new project has its own challenges and opportunities. This time round, the latter will be fully embraced! Technologies being used include Flex and Ruby (Rails to a lesser extend). As a newcomer to Flex, my experiences with it will be posted here, with links to resources and the ... http://www.fridaytraffic.com/fridaytraffic-energized/