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