http://parasew.blogs.sonance.net various news from the webworld and beyond Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:47:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Version 1.2.4 from the popular framework Ruby on Rails has just been released. It contains additional deprecation notices, security fixes and some minor performance improvements. All users of 1.2.3 are advised to upgrade.read more | digg story http://parasew.blogs.sonance.net/2007/10/05/rails-124-maintenance-release/ Maya, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Blender, Pixie, 3Delight, Bmrt, Aqsis, After Effects, Shake, Nuke and Terragen as well as almost every Video or 3D Tool that supports command-line rendering can be used for distributed rendering with drqueue. It is free, it is open source. And Apple Compressor as of Version 2 ... http://parasew.blogs.sonance.net/2005/09/20/drqueue-the-open-source-distributed-render-queue/ Transformers were cool when i was young. Now the sorta suck, but still the paper-edition rocks: "Paperformers! Transformers made out of paper. And they actually transform. I love finding cool things to make out of paper." http://parasew.blogs.sonance.net/2005/09/20/paperformers-transformers-made-out-of-paper/ The Blog "parasew shouts!" just started as a shoutbox for interesting stuff found in the web. also watch parasew.com for various other news and texts in german. http://parasew.blogs.sonance.net/2005/09/20/first/