January 2010
thoughtbot : Community, open source ruby on rails... →
As we build web applications for our clients or for ourselves, we look for opportunities to extract commonly used solutions, and to build tools which makes the next project more efficient and more…
Top 10 tips to a new django developer - 0 & 1 →
startups,entrepreneurship,user interfaces,programming
Bayesian Classification on Rails | Logan Koester →
A project I’ve been working on watches Twitter for some search keywords, with the goal of finding new customers, jobs, items for sale, etc. For example, a computer repair shop might want to watch for…
tdreyno/iphone-style-checkboxes @ GitHub →
Turn your checkboxes into iPhone-style binary switches
No Dungeons & Dragons in jail, court tells killer →
A killer serving a life sentence in [Wisconsin] has lost a lengthy legal battle to be allowed to play Dungeons & Dragons in prison - on the grounds that it promotes ‘gang activity’.
Kindle Development Kit →
Build innovative active content that runs on Kindle, Amazon’s wireless reading device.
Lechuguilla Cave →
Lechuguilla Cave is, as of August 2007, the fifth longest cave (126.1 miles (203 km)) known to exist in the world, and the deepest in the continental United States (1,604 feet (489 m)), but it is…
Project SIKULI →
Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython,…
AudioOwl - Free Audio Books - Download mp3 and... →
Your source for free audio books. Download one in mp3, iPod and iTunes format today!
Appcelerator Codestrong - Distribute an app for... →
Here’s a quick and dirty guide on how to distribute a titanium mobile app for testing purposes.
Mobile Emulators | mobiForge →
DotMobi strongly encourages the use of mobile phone emulators during the development of any mobile site since they allow you to get a rough idea of how the site will look without having to purchase…
nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git... →
In this post I present the development model that Iâve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. Iâve been…
Hello, Internet →
An audio collection of people from all over the world saying the weblog’s title, in their native accent and language.
Keith Clark - IE CSS3 pseudo selectors →
ie-css3.js allows Internet Explorer to identify CSS3 pseudo selectors and render any style rules defined with them. Simply include the script in your pages and start using these selectors in your…
The IE CSS Bug Which Cost Me A Month’s Salary:... →
I run a small business selling software (downloadable and online) which lets parents and teachers make bingo cards. It is October, which is the busiest season on the educational bingo calendar,…
Jammit: Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for... →
Jammit is an industrial strength asset packaging library for Rails, providing both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation and compression that you’d expect, as well as YUI Compressor and Closure…
Deploying Sinatra On Ubuntu: In Which I Employ A... →
made myself a phone secretary with Twilio, their Ruby gem, and Sinatra (a lightweight Ruby web framework). I gave my friends and family a US number assigned to me by Twilio. Dialing it causes…
BBC News - German government warns against using... →
The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems.
5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup – GigaOM →
Enroll in an academic program, make friends with some of the other really smart students, drop out of school with them to create a company, work 80 hours a week and one day, ka-ching! This is the…
Twilio →
Web Service for building Phone Applications
rails's open_id_authentication at master - GitHub →
OpenID authentication plugin
PHP QR Code Generator « Kerem Erkan's blog →
Using the following form, you can create QR Code images that trigger various actions on the reader device.
“Place the back of your hand on your forehead and say “Oh Thursday. You...”
– @DoWhatITellYou
apenwarr "Git is the next Unix" →
When I first heard about git, I was suspicious that there could be anything special about it, but after watching Linus’ talk about it, I was… even more suspicious. I tried it anyway.
Try Android 2.1 on Windows →
Android is the most talked and popular platform these days. A lot of phones and netbooks featuring Andriod are coming in the market. Recently in our post we told that half of LG Smartphones will…
ASP.NET for PHP Developers →
This tutorial, for PHP developers, will provide you with an introduction to ASP.NET using the C# language.
I Have No Talent // RailsTips by John Nunemaker →
The other day someone sent me an IM and thanked me for my open source contributions. They then said something about wishing they had my gem/code creation talents. I didnât miss a beat and informed…
WebApp.Net →
WebApp.Net is a light weight, powerful javascript framework taking advantage of AJAX technology. It provides a full set of ready to use components to help you develop, quickly and easily, advanced…
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TotalFinder →
Finder.app enhancements for power users
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
N.W.A (7)
Firewater (3)
The Fatima Mansions (2)
David Bowie (2)
They Might Be Giants (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
mojombo's jekyll - GitHub →
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out…
IconPark.net - A Smalltime Stock Icon Venue →
This massive collection of vector symbolism has been crafted over several years and cover themes like; web, communication, navigation, structure, files, devices, tools and just general sleek rounded…
“Art Clokey, the animator who half a century ago created Gumby, that most pliant...”
– Art Clokey, Animator Who Created Gumby, Dies at 88
Git-wiki →
A wiki engine that uses a Git repository as its data store.
Taps for Easy Database Transfers →
Migrating databases from one server to another is a pain: mysqldump on old server -> gzip -> scp big dump file -> gunzip -> mysql. It takes a long time, and is very manual and (and thus error-prone),…
Fancybox | Fancy lightbox alternative →
FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.
jviney's acts_as_taggable_on_steroids - GitHub →
This plugin is based on acts_as_taggable by DHH but includes extras such as tests, smarter tag assignment, and tag cloud calculations.
Predictions for the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home... →
v=These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions…