This is a top notch effort. As someone who has recently started looking at JS MVC frameworks, I've found there are a lot of options and not a huge amount of documentation or tutorials.
When it comes to differentiating between frameworks, tutorials like this go a long way, and help the entire JS community. I look forward to other JS frameworks coming out with similar, and getting more opinionated about conventions.
Bookmarklets are awesome except they involve more user interaction than should be needed. I feel like almost every time I could use a bookmarklet, a plugin would do more with just as much user initiative.
They also don't have a favicon (or I haven't seen one in FF4) without a user pre-visiting a destination page, so they look unpolished.
That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =)
Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and checks it's availability.
I created my site to help with the brainstorming of site names to see what's available, but I can see how domai.nr would be used in a very similar way.
I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.
Enter a few words in the name field to try it out!
e.g. apple, microsoft, ycombinator, purplemonkeydishwasher
What an excellent post, and easy enough for someone without tech experience to follow. This will definitely be forwarded to friends wanting to get into the more serious side of web publishing.
This just strikes me as so very open to malicious attack. That I can scan networks to find smart phones on Virgin (or other networks), and do no more than a ping flood those IPs to incur thousands of dollars in excess charges to a unwitting person.
It takes the term Denial Of Service attack to an entirely new level of bad.
Imagine if this was combined with the iPhone worm from a few months back. It'd essenially pingflood all phones exposed on the telco networks and screw thousands of people in excess changes without them even knowing something was going on.
This worries me greatly. (puts iPhone on WiFi mode)
Look into packer for building out Production images, and Chef/Puppet/Ansible for additional configuration ontop those images.