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I’m not in a wheelchair, but if I was, I hope to be as kick-ass as these folks. What can you learn from watching this video?

• Be a free-thinker
• Believe in yourself
• You can do it!
• Don’t accept “no, can’t, won’t, don’t, not”… ever

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Happy Holidays!

(click for higher res)

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I used to play massive amounts of roller hockey, and I’ve been known to hit the ice, but it’s been a (long) time. So, when the family went to the American Museum of Natural History, we jumped at the chance to try the skating rink.

We were excited! We immediately rented skates, changed into them, and got right out on the ice… er… synthetic ice. Yes, it was made from plastic interlocking pieces, and while it looks just like ice in the photo, it didn’t act like ice. Much to our dismay, it was amazingly terrible. You couldn’t skate on it; the skates just slid all over the place making it impossible to get traction to actually, well, skate. Everyone was just standing still or falling. There wasn’t much in between. And when you fell, you’d get covered with all of the little plastic shavings the skates were carving out of the “ice.” Funny thing is, the justification was that it was more eco-friendly. More eco-friendly than ice in the winter? Huh?

Didn’t anyone try out the synthetic ice before building an entire installation of this crap? The planetarium is amazing, but AMNH gets an epic fail for the rink.

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I take Metro North commuter rail into the city (NY), which terms at Grand Central Terminal but I work on 17th and Park Avenue South. Occasionally, I’ll walk the whole way, but most of the time I take the subway due to time constraints. Maybe if I had the Strida folding bicycle, I’d bike from 42nd to work. Extra credit: belt-drive. NO grease on your pant leg. I love the details.

Awesome.

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My Twitter Wordle cloud via TweetStats

Microsoft's First iPhone App

http://mashable.com/2008/12/13/microsoft-iphone-apps/

I don’t know about you, but I think my iPhone would feel tainted if I installed this. Maybe I’ll buy it a drink (or two) first.

MiFi - Portable Wireless Router

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/watch_out_wifi_here_comes_mifi.php

Paraphrasing Triumph: I neeeeed, I neeeeed!

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Finally. Not a flash card. Not a video of everyone in the office singing. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard the same old retreaded idea couched in “c’mon, it’ll be fun!” No, it won’t.

Nice work AKQA.

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This is just crazy talk, in an insanely great kind of a way.

Not Fucking Good Enough

http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2008/12/11/gee-one-bold-storm-coming-up%E2%80%A6/

Couldn’t agree more. Mr. Stephen Fry of TopGear fame discusses Apple and their competitors, among other things.

Ubiquity RDoc Search Command

http://projects.talleye.com/ubiquity-rdoc/

An RDoc command for Mozilla Ubiquity. Nice. Thanks @grnbeagle!

:ruby => 'Enumerable#inject'

http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/03/ruby-inject.html

Jay Field’s thoughts on Ruby’s Enumerable#inject method.

:more_time => 'shorter letter'

???I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.???

Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) Lettres provinciales.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Henry David Thoreau

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Marcus T. Cicero

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Nietzsche

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Felelon

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report???.

Woodrow Wilson

???If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today.?? If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.???

Mark Twain

From Dangerous Intersection via Daring Fireball

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A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages.

Via Dan Benjamin

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I needed the laugh. Thanks.

:rails => 'rails + amazon =

http://www.railsinside.com/plugins/172-rails-and-amazon-libraries-and-plugins...

Via Rails Inside by Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup

:open_source => 'Titanium'

http://titaniumapp.com/

An open source take on Adobe’s AIR. Finally.

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You’re just jealous that YOU didn’t design this masterpiece.

Via DaringFireball.

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Google Reader Absolutely Compact. Giving it a try right now.

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I recently stumbled upon (using Google, not StumbleUpon) MarkMail for searching mailing list archives. Not sure if it’s new, but I dig the layout, speed, and coverage.

:macosx => 'LDAPManager'

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldapmanager/

I’ve been using Apache’s Directory Studio, and JXplorer, but just found LDAPManager, which is a native Cocoa app for browsing LDAP trees. Ahhh.

Update: Overall I like the simplicity of LDAPManager’s interface, but it appears to have a significant bug: it drops the connection to the server (in my case, AD) and trying to re-connect hangs the app. Will keep testing…

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Have a mashup, and don’t need the heavy-lifting of MySQL or PostgreSQL? Try NextDB.

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Flickr color search lab. Simple. Easy. Impactful.

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Seamless patterns.

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Love Type. Love the iPhone. Together forever (or, as long as the hugetype.com site is up).

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Create your own Radiohead Rainbow.

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The Grid System: “The ultimate resource in grid systems.”

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[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/2317118 w=400&h=300]

Tilt-shift rocks. Metal Heart (via Vimeo)

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Buh-bye IE6.

:rubygems => 'Updating to 1.3.1'

sudo gem install rubygems-updatesudo update_rubygems

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The famous 15 minute Ruby On Rails blog application demo, redone with Rails 2.2 by Ryan Bates of the excellent Railscasts site.

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For all of the geeks (like me): Starship Dimensions

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

http://etherpad.com/

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Fail Whale? No. Chill Cone.

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jQuery Selector Lab

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The JS-909 (not the Flash-909).

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Finally, the mighty HP calculator comes to the iPhone. IMHO, the HP calcs are still the best. I have a 15C (on my desk at work) and a 16C (at home, somewhere…). Stone Meadow Development.

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I love design.

Via?? information aesthetics

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Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007

Via The Daily Dish

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Build your own Muppet.

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Gobby

http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/

A collaborative text editor. I’m trying to install it via MacPorts, but getting a series of dependency errors that I’ll have to work through.

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Me (on the right, in black) at RubyConf 2008. Photo copyright Dan Benjamin.

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President Obama

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Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging

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PhotoFunia

Word Portraits

Via [infosthetics]

:ruby => 'Pony, The Express Way To Send Email'

http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/11/2/pony_the_express_way_to_send_email...

Via adam @ heroku

:rails => 'session_lifetime plugin'

http://workswithruby.com/2008/10/session_lifetime-plugin

Notify users when their session expires. Nice.

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When you hit a wrong note it???s the next note that makes it good or bad.

Miles Davis

Ruby on Rails 2.2 Release Notes

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/2_2_release_notes.html

Rails 2.1.2 and 2.2RC1: Update Your RubyGems

http://afreshcup.com/2008/10/25/rails-212-and-22rc1-update-your-rubygems/

Via A Fresh Cup

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Poladroid Project - Mac OS X

Make your photos look like old Polaroid photos. I???ve owned a Polaroid, and while nothing rivals digital cameras for their instant gratification satisfaction injection, I still kind of miss the anticipation of the first barely visible image fragments emerging from the white haze of the chemical-infused plastic.

Ah, memories.

Rails 2.2 (RC1) Released

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/10/25/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-rails-2-2-...

Wow. Rails just keeps adding on the frosting. I can hardly keep up with all of the developments. Awesome.

Rails 2.2 Features

• Connection Pools (Rails 2.2 is thread-safe!)
• Mailer Layouts
• Shallow Routes
• Simpler Conditional Get Support
• Standard Internationalization Framework
• Get Your Metaclass
• Easy Memoization
• Easy Join Table Conditions
• Custom Length Validation Tokenizer
• Collection Partial Variable Naming

Via Ryan’s Scraps

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The easiest way to build a product that kicks ass is to start with someone else’s great idea, and take stuff away.

Steve Yegge

Exact-fucking-ly.

Understand Your User

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/23/Build-For-Yourself

Your user is… you. Really, nothing more to be said.

Via Daring Fireball

Rails Rumble 2008 Apps

http://48hrlaunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/rails-rumble-2008-apps/

What can YOU build in 48 hours?

37signals's wysihat

http://github.com/37signals/wysihat/tree/master

“WysiHat is a WYSIWYG JavaScript framework that provides an extensible foundation to design your own rich text editor. WysiHat stays out of your way and leaves the UI design to you.”

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Qwitter. Find out when someone unfollows you on Twitter. Maybe it’s my vanity, maybe it’s the numbers, but I’m always interested when someone unfollows me, and even more, which post did it. No, it’s not at all scientific, but so what?!

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So, as more people start to read this little tumblog, I’m starting to think that I should actually write something instead of just link/photo/video dumping. Writing, for me, takes focus, time, patience, and practice. Sort of like balancing rocks.

Via Signal vs. Noise

Thoughts on Jason Fried???s talk

http://joecascio.net/joecblog/?p=82

Exactly.

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[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/1669862 w=400&h=302]

cadler:

ILoveSketch is an amazing application. And the video above, particulary 5:00 and beyond is just mind blowing.

Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches

http://www.noupe.com/css/using-javascript-to-fix-12-common-browser-headaches....

Design Games - Help unlock Creativity

http://designgames.com.au/

Found via @halvorson

TheDailyRefactoring.com

http://www.thedailyrefactoring.com/

Daily example of Rails code refactoring. Love refactoring. Love the site and its simplicity, both from a content, focus, and design standpoint.

Subscribed.

RubyOSA: Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge

http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/

“RubyOSA provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript.”

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John Cleese on Sarah Palin.

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“MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It’s simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac.”

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2009 BMW S1000RR Superbike

Usernamecheck.com

http://usernamecheck.com/

See if your preferred username is available on a ton of sites.

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Portable Zen

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Agile Estimating

TextMate easter egg: find bundle commands by key combo

http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/10/09/textmate-easter-egg-find-bundle-commands-...

Via Dr Nic

iPhone - Type Emails in Landscape Mode!

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288916937&mt=8

Validator S.A.C

http://habilis.net/validator-sac/

Stand-Alone W3C HTML Validator Application for Mac OS X

Ruby In Steel - Free Edition

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-New-Free-Edition

Amazon Kindle 2

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/03/amazon-kindle-2-ebooks-its-way-to-bgr/

Via BGR

Skype from your iPhone

http://www.fring.com/fring_is/what_is_fring/

iPhone Supports Full-screen Web apps

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/03/latest_iphone_software_supports...

Inside the iPhone SDK

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/iPhone-SDK.ars/1

I need to find some time to develop at least ONE iPhone app. Here’s a solid primer. [Via ArsTechnica]

Boxee on AppleTV

I think I’m going to spend some quality time with my AppleTV this weekend, and install Boxee. Thanks for the inspiration @dontstopninja!

[Update] @boxee saw my tweet about them, and hooked me up with an alpha invite. Schweet!

Where to Get a Good Cheesesteak in NYC

http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/meat-cheese-combo-proves-edible/

I’m drooling. Anyone up for a roadtrip?

CIO.com - Building a Better (and Useful) Corporate Intranet Starts With a Wiki

http://www.cio.com/article/452183/Building_a_Better_and_Useful_Corporate_Intr...

Small bit of self-promotion. I was interviewed by CIO Mag for my work at iCrossing with wikis. Check it out. =)

The Pragmatic Bookshelf - iPhone SDK Development

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/amiphd/iphone-sdk-development

Wow. Apple lifts the iPhone NDA, and the floodgates open.

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WebKit Web Inspector Redesign

In your terminal:

Debug Menu:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

Web Inspector:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Drosera JS Debugger:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitScriptDebuggerEnabled -bool true

Restart Safari (if it’s open). Explore and enjoy!

[UPDATE] Timothy Hatcher pointed out that you can now simply turn on the tools from Safari’s advanced preferences, and that since Drosera was replaced, the command is moot. Thanks Timothy!

Email To (Open)ID

http://emailtoid.net/

“Emailtoid is a simple mapping service that enables the use of email addresses as OpenID identifiers.”

Ruby On Rails: Named Scope and dates

http://workswithruby.com/2008/9/do-not-forget-namedscope-and-dates

Change your OS X login screen wallpaper image

http://www.macgasm.net/2008/09/29/change-your-login-screen-wallpaper-image/

/System/Library/CoreServices

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GraphJam

This site is awesome. It’s no secret that I work for iCrossing and a big part of what we do is analytics and data visualization. GraphJam is The Onion of charts and graphs.

You have to be able to laugh at yourselves, right? Definitely check it out.

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Rails Rumble ‘08

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A Guide to Memoization (in Rails)

http://www.railway.at/articles/2008/09/20/a-guide-to-memoization

Setting your hostname in OS X

$sudo scutil --set HostName your.cool.hostname

Google Maps Offers NYC Mass Transit Directions

http://mashable.com/2008/09/23/google-maps-new-york-city/

YouTube's Experience Wii Channel

http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

Textmate GetBundle - Installer Shell Script

The web site that hosts GetBundle appears to be down. Here’s the shell script to install it from the Macromates site. Save it to a file, and grant execute perms:

$ chmod u+x textmate_install_getbundle.sh

$ ./textmate_install_getbundle.sh

Here’s the script…

#!/bin/shLC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8SVN=`which svn`echo Changing to Bundles directory...mkdir -p /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundlescd /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundlesif [ -d /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/GetBundle.tmbundle ]; then echo GetBundle bundle already exists - updating... $SVN up GetBundle.tmbundleelse echo Checking out GetBundle bundle... $SVN --username anon --password anon co http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/GetBundle.tmbundle/fiecho Reloading bundles in TextMate...osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to reload bundles'

Online Pirate Translator

http://pirate.monkeyness.com/online_pirate_translator

Obligatory ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ utility

Getting Rails talking to SQLServer on OSX via ODBC

http://toolmantim.com/article/2007/5/7/getting_rails_talking_to_sqlserver_on_...

These were the most complete and accurate instructions I could find. Note that it wiped out my previous ruby install and replaced it with MacPorts Ruby. I had to re-load all of my gems, etc. You have been warned.

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PostgreSQL on GitHub

http://github.com/blog/166-postgresql-on-github

Nothing final, but it looks like PostgreSQL is moving to GitHub. Noice.

MySQLTuner

http://wiki.mysqltuner.com/MySQLTuner

Thanks @JaysonJPhillips

Blanket - Automated backup for your Rails app

http://github.com/bigfleet/blanket/wikis

Panda - Open source video platform

http://pandastream.com/

Adobe AIR for Linux Beta

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html

VirtualBox 2.0

http://www.virtualbox.org/

OpenSource virtualization software. I’m currently using VMWare on my MBP, but I’ve been meaning to give VB (ha!) a try. Now might be a great time.

New Relic RPM Lite - Free.

http://www.newrelic.com/RPMlite.html

Ruby on Rails guides

http://guides.rails.info/

More Rails documentation goodness

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Google Gears for Safari

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/gears-for-safari.html

S’worth a shout.

Shoulda testing plugin

http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda

Now with gem-liciousness

Pushup : Pushing up the web

http://www.pushuptheweb.com/

Actively encourage users to update their browsers.

CrossOver Chromium

http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/

Google’s Chrome on Mac (on Windows)

Dwigger

http://www.dwigger.com

Digg + Twitter

Remove Genre from iTunes (8)

defaults write com.apple.itunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE

Setting up CruiseControl.rb with/for Git Based Projects

http://codeintensity.blogspot.com/2008/04/setting-up-cruisecontrolrb-withfor-...

Via A Fresh Cup

Searchgasm

http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/9/1/searchgasm-released

Object-based search.

Email Veracity Plugin

http://rails.savvica.com/2007/11/6/email-veracity-plugin

An email verification plugin.

Simulation: Large Hadron Collider

http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/lhc_simulation/

New Gmail Lab Experiments

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-10-n77.html

• Custom label Colors
• Navbar drag and drop
• “Go to label” shortcut
  

User Experience - ReadWriteWeb

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/user_experience_learning_from.php

Bort - A Base Rails Application

http://jimneath.org/2008/09/09/bort-base-rails-application/

CookiePie FireFox Extension

http://www.nektra.com/oss/firefox/extensions/cookiepie/

Different tabs, different cookies. Awesome.

SQL Injection issue in :limit and :offset parameter

http://www.rorsecurity.info/2008/09/08/sql-injection-issue-in-limit-and-offse...

Edge Rails: Connection Pools

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/9/7/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-connection-p...

Edge Rails: Mailer Layouts

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/9/7/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-mailer-layouts

haproxy_queue

http://37casts.s3.amazonaws.com/technical/haproxy_queue.mov

Very quick demo of HAProxy

Tumbltape

http://www.tumbltape.com/

Turn any Tumblr blog into a playlist

silverpop_mailer

http://github.com/mtodd/silverpop_mailer/tree/master

A Rails plugin to augment ActionMailer to send emails via the SilverPop Service

Cappuccino Web Framework

http://cappuccino.org/

“Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.”

Generate a Google Sitemap in Ruby on Rails

http://www.webficient.com/2008/09/06/google-sitemap-ruby-on-rails

AJAX Libraries API - Google Code

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

From the site:

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including:

• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Security White Paper

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/09/aws-security-wh.html

Direct link to PDF

json-head

http://json-head.appspot.com/

Google App Engine mini-app for running HEAD requests

WWW SQL Designer

http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/

Online ERD generator, done in javascript.

Instant SQL Formatter

http://www.wangz.net/gsqlparser/sqlpp/sqlformat.htm

Pretty print?? your SQL

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Upcoming Facebook for iPhone interface. Touchscreens FTW!

Googtaculous

http://github.com/matthuhiggins/googtaculous/tree/master

Rewrite javascript_include_tag to use google’s host versions of prototype and scriptaculous

RubyCAS Server

http://code.google.com/p/rubycas-server/

Single sign-on authentication for enterprise web apps

Abyssoft Teleport

http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/

Remote control multiple Macs.

Sanitize your users' HTML input

http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2008/8/25/sanitize-your-users-html-input

Localizing Rails - Demo Application

http://i18n-demo.phusion.nl/

Mysqlplus: A new thread aware MySQL driver

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/0ba79d69...

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Worth a re-post

Serving static files with Django and AWS

http://eventseer.net/p/thomas_brox_roest/whiteboardentry/13/

Yes, I’m a Rails guy, but I love anything that make me smarter about site architecture. This blog post certainly qualifies.

Cloudbursting - Hybrid Application Hosting

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/cloudbursting-.html

Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001167.html

via Coding Horror

QuarkBase : Everything about a Website

http://www.quarkbase.com/

Zeep Mobile - A Free SMS API

http://zeepmobile.com/

…free, but ad-supported

'SUP

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-28-n72.html

Simple Update Protocol.

Zero to Production in 15 Minutes with JRuby

http://blog.headius.com/2008/08/zero-to-production-in-15-minutes.html

Ruby Hoedown 2008

http://www.rubyhoedown.com/index.html#talks

god

http://god.rubyforge.org/

Process and task monitoring done right

daemon_controller

http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/08/25/daemon_controller-a-library-for-robust-daem...

A library for robust daemon management

The awesomest filter and sort ever

http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2008/8/26/the-awesomest-filter-and-sort-ever

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Mattel LED Football

I had versions 1 & 2. Actually, I still have a working version of 2, but one LED is burnt out.

Edge Rails: Simpler Conditional Get Support (ETags)

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/8/14/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-simpler-con...

I might’ve posted this before, but it’s worth re-posting.

Rails 2.2 Will Be Threadsafe

http://blog.headius.com/2008/08/qa-what-thread-safe-rails-means.html

Finally, though Ruby continues to be a stumbling block. Ha!

NeverBlock now supports ActiveRecord

http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock/benchmarks

Iceberg: Build Workflow Powered Applications Without Coding

http://www.geticeberg.com/

On vacation...

N’uff said.

Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1663

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/amazon-elastic.html

Finally. Persistent storage.

http://gist.github.com/6443

https://gist.github.com/6443

Just read it.

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Note to self: Reveal Password Fields (Firefox)

Copy and paste in address bar of page:

javascript:var els = document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’); for(var x=0; x<els.length; x++){ if(els[x].type.toLowerCase() == ‘password’ ){ var test = els[x].type = ‘text’;}}

"Tone is in your fingers"

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1186-gearheads-dont-get-it

Edge Rails: Simpler Conditional Get Support (ETags)

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/8/14/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-simpler-con...

Wonderbra D to G

http://www.wonderbra.co.uk/world/wzoom/index.html

akapost - email proxying

http://www.akapost.com/

Tunnlr - Facebook dev made easier

http://tunnlr.com/

Super OS X menubar items

http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/

Note to Self: VMWare Boot delay (inc. Fusion)

Edit the .vmx file to add:

bios.bootDelay = “boot delay in milliseconds”

Simple Localization in Rails 2.2

http://almosteffortless.com/2008/07/21/simple-localization-in-rails-22/

Chandler 1.0!

http://blog.chandlerproject.org/2008/08/08/chandler-10/

Yes, really.

Gistr - Post Gists to Tumblr

http://github.com/eric/gistr/tree/master

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Life-like 3D animation is making some progress.

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Radiohead + 3D + Lego = Awesome.

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Want one!

Blueprint CSS has moved to GitHub

http://github.com/blog/134-blueprint-css-on-github

MyTextFile - Your main text file in the web

http://www.mytextfile.com/

Volumizer

http://homepage.mac.com/gweston/volumizer/index.html

Mac OS X: Put your drives in your dock.

The Rise and Fall of Twitter

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-twitter/

Schmap - iPhone Map Enable your Website

http://www.schmap.com/iphone/enable-your-site/

JDarkRoom

http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/

An oldie, but a goodie.

CodeRay Syntax Highlighter

http://coderay.rubychan.de/

Webby - Website Management System

http://webby.rubyforge.org/

WePlay's Git deployment workflow

http://www.brynary.com/2008/8/3/our-git-deployment-workflow

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StickDuino

Mechanize

http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/

From the site: “The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as a history.”

Resourceful

http://resourceful.rubyforge.org/

Resourceful provides a convenient Ruby API for making HTTP requests

HTTParty

http://railstips.org/2008/7/29/it-s-an-httparty-and-everyone-is-invited

Consume APIs in Ruby like it’s a party! Via Ruby Inside.

deprec

http://deprec.org/

From the site: “Deprec is a collection of automated recipes, written in Ruby, for installing, configuring and controlling services on remote servers.”

Ruby on Rails I18n

http://www.artweb-design.de/2008/7/18/the-ruby-on-rails-i18n-core-api

Fail Fast (PDF)

http://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf

via Ryan Bates of Railscasts.com, as a comment on this article.

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Color Jack

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Hard drive clock. Want one!

Why Twitter Still Wins

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/why-twitter-still-wins/

During a discussion with a CEO at a former employer, I began to explain why APIs were important, and pointed to Twitter as an example of how an API can mean the difference between leading and following. He told me that, other than developers, no one cares about or understands APIs, and therefore they weren’t important. He wasn’t able to see past the tactical implementation, understand the basic concept, and extrapolate out a few steps.

I left that company.

Free PDF: Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers

http://onair.adobe.com/files/AIRforJSDevPocketGuide.pdf

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Vertebra: p2p Cloud Control Framework

Del.icio.us 2.0

http://del.icio.us

Delicious 2.0 launched yesterday, but thanks to the great Firefox plugin, I rarely visit to the site. I never would’ve know the site was updated if I hadn’t read my feeds.

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Broke my only pair of glasses this morning, so I needed something to make me laugh. This is old-ish, but still funny; it made me laugh. Brawndo. Enjoy.

Scrollovers

http://www.scrollovers.com/

via Aaron

Tweet From the Command Line

http://jamesgolick.com/2008/7/31/tweet-from-the-command-line

Sweet little Ruby gem so you can tweet from the command line, unencumbered by the weight of a GUI. I’m in!

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impromptu OS X Audio Programming Environment

Juggernaut - Rails Push Plugin

http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/

Docbox

http://docbox.inspir.es/

Hoptoad - The App Error App (for Rails)

http://hoptoadapp.com/welcome

Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email

http://five.sentenc.es/

RegexPal - Regex Tester

http://www.regexpal.com/

Obie Fernandez: Becoming a Worldly Person

http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/07/becoming-a-worl.html?cid=124306...

Open Source Rails

http://www.opensourcerails.com/

960 Grid System

http://960.gs/

Firebug Lite 1.2 Released

http://getfirebug.com/lite.html

Safari, Opera, and IE users rejoice!

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My 12seconds.tv account (slightly doctored in photoshop). I haven’t posted yet; waiting for hair and makeup. =)

Want an invite? DM me your email address - http://www.twitter.com/ByteEngine/

Phusion Passenger 2.0.2 released

http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/07/14/phusion-passenger-202-released/

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The only Git resource you’ll ever need.

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Happy SysAdminDay!

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Write Rhymes.

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Pattern Tap.

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Imaginary Foundation

NimbleX Linux

http://www.nimblex.net/index.php

Making SWFUpload and Rails work together

http://seventytwo.co.uk/posts/making-swfupload-and-rails-work-together

Datamatrix Generator

http://datamatrix.kaywa.com/

ReMate

http://ciaranwal.sh/remate/

Disable automatic project tree refresh

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Ultimate Geek Chic! How do I get one?! (Yes, I realize that it’s a concept. Yes, I still want one.)

Git for the lazy

http://www.spheredev.org/wiki/Git_for_the_lazy

Lazy? That’s me! And always remember, kids: Laziness is the father of invention.

RailsDB - Rails based DB Front-end

http://railsdb.org/

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Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m a gadget FA-REAK, but I can appreciate simplicity. Here’s an oldie and goodie; a super-low-tech way to organize your day. PocketMod.