Hi, I'm Andre Lewis and I'm on the Internet

I've been pretty busy on a couple projects, and haven't done as much reading as I usually do. When you leave your RSS reader unattended for a week or so, it's seriously overwhelming to come back and try to catch up. There is just an insane amount of innovation going on right now. A few links from my reading this morning:

• Unobtrusive Rails plugin (version 0.3) was released a week or so ago. Looking forward to trying it, and getting rid of some inline JS for my prototype-based projects.
• jQuery went 1.0 -- congrats John Resig! Speaking of jQuery, there's a lively discussion based on the relative merits of prototype vs jQuery over here.
  
• Here's a good overview of microformats.
• Streamlined renders administrative interfaces for your Rails models with very little effort on your part. If you've ever wished scaffolding could deal with relationships, check out Streamlined. Although, I think Streamlined is designed to go much farther than you would ever go with scaffolding, i.e., create near production-ready administrative interfaces. Haven't tried it yet, but plan to.
• For internal web apps that need to behave like desktop apps, check out the recently updated qooxdoo, a JavaScript library with all kinds of treeviews, dialogs, sortable tables, etc. It's heavy, but might be the right solution for a certain class of intranet applications.

This is really a fascinating video on the Equinix data center, where a lot of big enterprise and consumer sites keep their data (Bank of America, MySpace, Yahoo, etc.). The facility consumes power "equivalent to a small suburban community." They have 28,000 gallons of diesel fuel on site to power the backup generators, which can power the center for up to two days. Link: http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6109900.html

My community-driven wifi cafe site now takes listings outside of San Francisco. You can add a cafe in any city (in the US), and the city will automatically be listed in the sidebar. I also made a few UI enhancements, including different map icons to distinguish free from paid hotspots.

Feel free to start adding wifi cafes in your own city. The site is http://http://hotspotr.com

A number of people requested an uncompressed version of GZoom. I've posted the code to here: gzoom_uncompressed.js . The code is released under an MIT-style license. Enjoy, and let me know if you make enhancements to the code that others might find useful -- I'll try to roll useful enhancements back into the core. See the previous GZoom post here.