I enjoyed the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org/) in the early days
of Linux adoption and so when we had some free time, one of my team
tossed together a little app for registering and counting Ruby users
and tracking Ruby adoption rates.
It’s at http://www.rubyusers.com
If you think it’s a good idea, please sign up. Or you could just do it
for the link back to your homepage, cv or blog.
If you think it’s a bad idea, then I’m really sorry to have bothered
you.
All the best,
Paul
Paul Klipp, Certified Scrum Practitioner
Lunar Logic Polska
Agile Ruby Experts
http://www.lunarlogicpolska.com/portfolio
Do you use Ruby? Get counted!
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Paul_Klipp wrote:
I enjoyed the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org/) in the early days
of Linux adoption and so when we had some free time, one of my team
tossed together a little app for registering and counting Ruby users
and tracking Ruby adoption rates.
It’s at http://www.rubyusers.com
sign up is big problem with CAPTCHAs
2009/3/12 rails and rails only [email protected]
sign up is big problem with CAPTCHAs
Yes, it took me three gos to get the text correct.
Colin
What problem did you have? I had no problem at all.
2009/3/12 David Nitzsche-Bell [email protected]
What problem did you have? I had no problem at all.
I could not read the words. I tried the audio feed but that did not
recognise what I typed either. The last letter is often truncated.
(Tried
on IE and FF, no difference). Once I realised that there was a button
to
generate a new code it was ok, I pressed it a couple of times till
something
I could read appeared. It would be easier if the words were simple
words, I
have just had another look and one of them is Trubenback, clicked the
refresh and one is volen with half a letter on the end that might be a
t, or
perhaps it is violent with the i mixed up with the v.
I am not normally deficient in the pattern recognition department as far
as
I am aware.
Colin
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Paul_Klipp [email protected] wrote:
I enjoyed the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org/) in the early days
of Linux adoption and so when we had some free time, one of my team
tossed together a little app for registering and counting Ruby users
and tracking Ruby adoption rates.
Unfortunately, it won’t take a valid email address. Mine is a
[email protected]
Need to work on the e-mail regex! There are numerous examples on the web
for
e-mail regexes. Have a look.
Oh, and post when it is fixed. Thanks!
Cheers–
Charles
I guess I just lucked out. I tried again several times and I see what
you mean. In some cases the last letter was indeed truncated.
Well, I hope this gets addressed.
David
So it seems we have to do two things ASAP: replace the Google books
capcha with a logical capcha (I just like the idea of helping with the
Google books project) and relax the email validation. The developer
probably did use a standard regex email validation script from the
web, but often those are not as friendly as those of us with unusual
email addresses would like (mine is @llp.pl, so I get busted from time
to time for not having a .com or .org email).
I’m sure we’ll get it fixed soon. The developer was not in the office
today.
Thanks for the community-based testing. 
All the best,
Paul
I hate capchas, personally. We chose this one because at least it does
some good. As you use it, it improves the OCR of a book scanning
project. But as it’s really a barrier to access, then I would prefer a
logical capcha to prevent bots creating accounts. A logical captcha is
something like “The sum of 4 and 8 is ________.” They are always easy
to read, even for browser readers for the blind.
All the best,
Paul