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During december, while everybody was probably mad about getting new friends on Facebook, the grandfather of web 2.0, Flickr, released a new tool for their users: Stats.

To make it sexiers, they used a couple of retro-animated gif’s to tell you they’re currently builing your stat index, in a totally web 1.0 fashionned way:

If you have a Flickr account, you can activate your stats now.

Two days ago, www.rubyonrails.com released the new version of rails, with lots of new cool stuff to play with.

And if your old projects are complaining after installing the new version, you just have to un-comment a simple line in your “config/environment.rb”:

  # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present
  RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '1.1.6'

Never to late to make a prediction about the coming year. In last 2 years, we had a lot of social websites, exploding with Friendster a long time ago, and getting multimedia recently (relatively) with photo – Flickr – and video – YouTube and DailyMotion, where is the social audio? Some websites get it right, like Last.fm or Pandora, but there is still a place for someone else.

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• Adaptive Layout Technique: last article from A List Apart that describes a technique to adapt your layout on the client screen resolution. This would be commonly used in coming months, bye bye fixed layout for developper/contractor screen setup;
• Rails Rubyisms Advent: a simple day-by-day tutorial to learn new small tips in Ruby;
• Rails Advent Calendar: another advent calendar from RubyInside.com to ruby developpers, with a link to some interesting screencasts from the San Diego Ruby User Group.

I believe one of the purpose of any creation if saving Humanity time, just to have more time to create new tools.

Today, I’ve discovered a tool that will save few hours of my life, just to build HTML/CSS grid layouts. Simple, elegant:

http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/grids/

YUI is a nice “2007 tech” challenger. Enough of all these homemade hack to have a Javascript working on IE-Firefox-Safari. 2006 was the year of Web 2.0 JS packages like Script.aculo.us, moo.fx or Lightbox, let’s see what will happen in 2007.