Spent the weekend at the cloudmade office for the 2nd International OSM Hack Weekend. People were quietly concentrating on getting on with the big tasks related to API 0.6. Seems they were making some good progress towards this, or a least towards some database re-organisation which needs to happen beforehand.

For my part, I kept my head down and got stuck into learning some ruby on rails. I'm pleasantly surprised by the installation process. I got the basic rails port code up and running on windows reasonably easily. Not very easy, but not as difficult as I had always imagined it would be. And I didn't even have to learn any ruby to understand the OSM rails 'views' enough to make some (silly little) contributions. Good fun!

Puzzling over openlayers javascript with a hangover yesterday was less fun.