Tag Archives: open source

Sending Email awesomely with Rails

Posted by Marcel Scherf on August 11, 2008 0 comments

If you would like to send HTML Emails with all the bells and whistles that Actionpacks Actionview provides checkout my freshly released plugin awesome_email on github.
It will enable you to use layouts/templates for your HTML Emails and it will inline CSS information inside the HTML to make sure it works in almost all Email clients.
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Google released their Protocol Buffers

Posted by Marcel Scherf on July 8, 2008 0 comments

Google released their Protocol Buffers as open source to the public this week. There are compilers and APIs available for C++, Java and Python (no Ruby unfortuantely).
This serialization framework is heavily used inside Google itself, lightweight, easy to understand and definetly worth a look (YAML anyone?). Check it out here: Google Code – Protocol Buffers