As always, if you have neat projects you want to show off send me a message! I usually try to keep a balance of languages/domains between the posts, so don’t lose hope if your project isn’t in the latest issue. Just please have a README so you can show others (and me!) how to setup/use your project.

On the heels of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Net Freedom speech, Intridea was delighted to receive notification Apple had approved the official iPhone application we developed for Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian News Network (PNN).

Episode #104: Something new. I’m sad to say that this will be the last episode of the Rails Envy podcast. I’m happy to say that Dan and I will be doing The Ruby Show which will follow the same general flow of Rails Envy. There’s no need to update your feeds (though you can if you’d like) because the feed will redirect for the foreseeable future. We’ve also got some other fun stuff planned like The Dev Show so stay tuned!

With technical review by jQTouch author David Kaneda!

jQTouch makes programming for mobile browsers fun! Simple HTML, CSS, and jQuery Javascript combine to make it easy to build applications for WebKit-based mobile browsers like the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, and Palm webOS.

Every once in a while I find out that a project I’ve been following is actually open source and hosted on GitHub. Just recently I found out that a great project called Ushahidi is hosted here. Ushahidi is a PHP platform that crowdsources crisis information allowing anyone to submit reports through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.