Nitro

I have somewhat neglected my English speaking audience, I must apologise. I've recently moved to Taiwan to study Mandarin, and my travellers journal will mostly be published on the Dutch side of this blog.

Before I left to Taiwan my grandmother gave me a beautiful little camera, and I've been taking pictures like a madman and posting them to my Flickr account. I would like to include these pictures into my blogposts, but I would like to use a specific HTML template, so I can easily style them with CSS, like so :

Important 2007-12-01 : This article is deprecated. The location of the repository changed and I haven't had the time to update my scripts to reflect this. With version 0.50 approaching an easier way of trying out Nitro is on the horizon. I'll write a new article soon that will supersede this one. If you need help getting Nitro up and running please ask advice on the Nitro mailing list.

Nitro is seeing some action again recently, which is mighty good, obviously. Nitro is a free software framework (under the liberal BSD licence) for building wep applications quickly, utilizing the lightweight Ruby language.

The 0.42 release is very outdated compared to the repo version, so we're all preparing for a dazzling 0.50.

I'm finding myself slowly emerged in the Nitro community. Nitro is a ruby framework for the rapid development of web applications. Another such framework, Ruby on Rails, has gotten a lot of press. The alternatives are less known :

• Camping
• IOWA
• Ramaze
• Nitro