After a lot of heavy hours and insane determination, we all get what we so thoroughly deserve... Yahoo's Peoples Choice Award!

Congrat's go to all the team at my new job (moveme.com), my boss Andy, Terry, Andrey, Rob & John, Denny, (me), and all the guys and girls who keep pushing us and patting us on the back when things go golden.

Personally, the stuff I've done here blows my mind; hence the really embarrasing photo (i was excited).

Got a holiday next week to treat my long-suffering fiancee who has sat steadily by, putting up with me over all the hell that is 'release-time'; she's the best and no-one will ever replace her (easily take a bullet for her any day).

Made some seriously good friends here, loving every second.

Moveme.com - Winners of the People's Choice Award 2007

Move Me, this year's People's Choice winner, beat competition from far and wide to take the number one prize, proving that moving doesn't have to be as stressful as we may think.

In addition to taking the People's Choice crown, it also proved a popular site with the expert panel of judges, winning the Innovative category award announced earlier in January.

Move Me aims to take away the stress of moving house with its free Move Planner. The planner takes everything into account from finding reputable removal firms to who you need to notify of your change of address.

Enjoy!

• Yahoo People's Choice Award

• www.moveme.com

Looking forward to the award arriving this week ;-)

For many it can be one heck of a steep hill to climb, thankfully the Yahoo guys and a few others have released some online videos to help you out.

Worth the watch,

• Parts 1-4 and slides

More...

• Yahoo Developer Network

• digitarald - mootools

• Help I don't know Javascript

Still improving my lil’ demo apps code I’ve moved on to create more permalink google-friendly site structures and reading data off RSS feeds.

So in the benefit of others, here’s what I found,

SEO on Rails …nice blog on integrating basic SEO tactics into your rails app, friendly permalinks, url mapping and dynamic metatags.

Screen Scraping …good in-depth article on screen scraping with Rails, pulling off html data from a target website (e.g. Twitter) to import into your database

Google / Yahoo Sitemaps …excellent article showing how to get your Rails App to create Yahoo / Google compatible sitemaps using the in-built XML features of Ruby.

Enjoy,

John.