A nice feature on Youtube is the ability play the videos a little wider, specially with all the HD videos out there. I also don’t really like to view them fullscreen all the time.

This feature I really missed on Vimeo. With more HD videos this view is just a shame for the quality :)

So finally we wrote a very small Google Chrome extension so we could give all those nice videos on Vimeo a proper view.

You can download it from the Google Chrome extention library or fork it on Github.

Next step is to port it to a Firefox and Safari extension. This shouldn’t be much of a problem since it is just pure css.

On October the 29th ArrrrCamp organizes its fourth event.

Ahoy mateys, the captain has news. Big news. News the size of the masts of LeChucks and Jack Sparrows ships combined!

We are taking ArrrrCamp to the next level, as per your own requests. We scouted the bars at the docks, and found some fairly-sober people willing to join our crew. And not just some ordinary deckhands, even your captain feels small and humble knowing that he will set sail together with these mateys…

If all goes well, the next edition of ArrrrCamp will welcome the following speakers:

• Yehuda Katz – member of the Ruby on Rails core team and the jQuery Core Team, lead developer of the Merb project, and a core contributor to DataMapper.
• Carl Lerche – a software engineer at Engine Yard, a member of the Merb team (currently working on Rails 3), and a contributor to many OSS projects
• Drew Neil – creator of the vimcasts, and core contributer to Radiant CMS.
• Joseph Wilk – member of the Cucumber core team

Alas, mateys, ArrrrCamp #4 cannot not be free. Ticket sales start today, at a 3-week early-bird (limited to 50 tickets) sales price of 42 euro. Normal ticket price will be 55 euro per ticket. Book your seat now!

If people are interested in contributing financially to ArrrrCamp, contact the captain to discuss sponsoring opportunities.

The schedule has changed, you have to mark all of friday October 29th in your agenda (and not just the afternoon, as for the previous editions). The venue stays the same: the Zebrastraat meeting center in Ghent – Belgium.

More names will follow when they have confirmed their presence. If you wanne give a talk yourself, just visit the call-for-paper-page and send your request to the captain.

At the most recent ArrrrCamp I gave a small introduction to Rack and Rack Middlewares in a Ruby on Rails application.

It was really interesting because I had some people in the room who knew a lot more than me about Rack and some of them who had never played with it. So we had some nice small discussions about when we use some middlewares like RACK::GOOGLE-ANALYTICS and Device. I had the feeling that in the end we had convinced a lot of people of starting to play with Rack, so my mission was accomplished.

You can view my slides on slideshare

View some more presentation given at ArrrrCamp on slideshare