If you attending MAX Barcelona and have a Flash Lite-compatible phone, make sure you check out the MAX Barcelona 2007 Flash Lite mobile phone session guide created by Paul Lamonby of BlueskyNorth. It shows you the sessions that are currently on and greatly enhances the findability of sessions and the usability of the conference.

I'm leaving for Barcelona (one of my favorite cities!) in a couple of hours to present my session Rediscovering Fun (Let's Talk About SWX, Baby!) at MAX Europe. The session is tomorrow (Monday) from 3.15pm-4.15pm -- don't forget to mark it on your calendar!

Here's a longer description of the session than the one on the MAX Europe web site to give you a better idea of what to expect:

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Jed Hurt has updated SWX Ruby, the SWX RPC implementation in Ruby (currently for Ruby on Rails) to Alpha 0.1.1. He has also recorded a new screencast to show you how to get up and running with it.

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This is freaky: Do you see the dancer spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? (It's a simple animated GIF so there are no parlor tricks involved!)

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Engadget is reporting that the iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 (the latest firmware update that bricked certain customer's phones) has been jailbroken and that homebrew apps have been ported and confirmed to run on it.

This is a wonderful development for any iPhone owner who wants to run homebrew apps on their device. (Apple, on the other hand, don't want you to run any software that's not made by them on their your iPhone.)

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