Sam Oliver

I noticed that I’ve been saying whoops a lot when developing with rails. I don’t know if I picked that up from watching David’s screen casts or whether I did it already. In any case I’ve decided it would make an appropriate system alert sound.  So after a bit of messing about I managed to extract it from the rails 15 minute blog screencast.

Whoops in .aif format (Mac)
Whoops in .wav format

To install use it on a Mac, copy it to ~/Library/Sounds and select it in System Preferences -> Sound

Whoops also features at the end of this video:

Check out my Ruby on Rails project (and little experiment) called Wishlix.

Wishlix lets you create wish lists for your events such as weddings, birthdays and baby showers.  Items can be added from both on-line stores and the high street.

It’s intentionally simple. I have lots of ideas that would make it more elaborate but I’m waiting to get some feedback from real users to find out what features are most important. It would be great to hear from you if you have any suggestions.