gurgeous

This is a great set of videos. Can you post transcripts & slides? I simply don't have time to watch more than 15 minutes of video.

I understand. A couple of suggestions:

1) Document this better! I figured it out eventually, but there were a couple of people looking over my shoulder who wanted to "just click continue", which would have resulted in an ugly surprise later on.

2) You could auto-expand my image to cover the bleed. Basically, just take the last few pixels on each side and expand them out to the edges. That would almost always be better than plain old white, right? This is basically what I did manually with Photoshop.

I just ordered one. This is a great idea! I really like the flash tool that helps you place custom artwork on the case. The checkout process was very smooth as well.

That being said, there's a problem with the custom artwork process. The vast majority of my photos are landscape, and these simply don't fit well onto a case. I had to photoshop one of my photos to add some extra sky onto the top in order to graft it onto a case. Any landscape photo taken with the rule of thirds will have this problem.

This is compounded by the tool, which has a nasty looking warning if you fail to fill the entire print area with your photo. There's nothing in the FAQ about the "print area", and none of the photos show the front of the case, leaving me completely in the dark about how serious an issue this is.

It would be great if our community of Ruby hackers could read this spec and supply feedback via their comment system. Remember that classes and methods that aren't included may not be present across implementations.

A few omissions that jumped out just from my quick scan:

- String.index & String.rindex - String.strip - Array.compact - Array.pack/String.unpack - Array.index & Array.rindex - Array.uniq - Enumerable.sort_by - Dir - Marshal

Would you be interested in a language that lacked these classes?

Disclosure : I am the author of the guest post. This is very HN appropriate.

Disclaimer : I am the author. I posted about the Urbanspoon iPhone app a few weeks back and many of you were curious when it would ship.

Techcrunch likes it too:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/10/iphone-application-over...

and we were in the New York Times yesterday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/technology/personaltech/09...

iPhone development is fun and easy, once you get past the horrors of Objective C. They have a really nice SDK.

Disclaimer : I help run Urbanspoon and I wrote the app. It'll be available for free when Apple launches the App Store.