Archive for September, 2006

New feature: Blogs by Language lists

Monday, September 25th, 2006

We just added a new feature to RubyCorner, a Blogs by Language lists. In order to help to categorize the blogs based on the language in which its written.
At the moment RubyCorner has blogs written in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Norwegian, Portuguese and German.

Trouble doing automatic ping to RubyCorner?

Friday, September 8th, 2006

If you are experiencing trouble with the automatic ping to RubyCorner, please check that your unique “Ping URL” starts with:

http://www.rubycorner.com/ping/xmlrpc/

If you are in doubt please check this special URL at your blog configuration.

Remeber that if your CMS doesn’t support automatic pinging services via XML-RPC, you can just bookmark your “Ping URL” and visit it to make a plain REST ping.

New face, new features

Friday, September 1st, 2006

At last we found time to release a new version of RubyCorner, the Ruby’s Blog Directory. There are a few new things to check:

  • First and obvious, a new design! We are still looking for a good logo ;-)
  • We added a language filter to the Last Updated and Last Registered lists, which allows you to select the languages of the blogs you want to see displayed.
  • Now the ping service is a REST web service still compliant with the weblogs.com XML-RPC standard, supported by most CMSs and blogging services. And now it offers support for “bookmark ping” You can just grab your unique ping URL, bookmar it and visit it whenever you update your blog.

After 5 months online, more than 200 blogs has registered, ranging from Ruby on Rails beginners, to community mavens, and the traffic keeps growing.

We would like to say thank to all the people that has helped us with their suggestions, and support. And particularly to Pat Eyler, and Charles Brian Quin. And off course, we would like to know about your experience with the new design and features.