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Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 31st):

• Phusion Passenger 2.2.12 released –
• Customizing Rails Apps with Plugins – takes the blog in rails 3 examples and adds to it with a bunch of plataformatec plugins
• chneukirchen’s bacon at master – GitHub – a small RSpec clone

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 30th):

• Using WordPress Pages like a Pro – how to use Pages in WordPress for marketing, sales, promotion, and information-sharing in smart and unique ways.
• Scaling Threaded Comments on Django at Disqus | David Cramer’s Blog – recursive queries in pg. this is where database agnosticism falls down. hard.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 29th):

• 12 Useful Ways To Get Out Of Ruts – Stepcase Lifehack – getting away from my desk when I'm not being productive is on my list to try
• What is Marketing? – find efficient ways to get the product in front of people who will actually pay
• Content Development Pros – Custom Content Writing, Editing and Proofreading – mostly bookmarking for reference later, no experience with them yet.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 28th):

• Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions – I think there are better uses for regex personally, and better ways to deal with email, but passing this along anyway.
• Autonomous quadrocopter flies through windows, straight into our hearts (video) — Engadget – this thing is awesome.
• IRC on the iPad: Colloquy and Linkinus –
• App Annie — Your App Nanny | App Tracking & Analytics Made Easy – For iPhone developers who love their apps, App Annie keeps tabs on your apps, making it easy to track sales, rankings, and reviews from around the world.
• How Much Money Do You Need To Quit Your Job – And Why? | IttyBiz – we were just talking about this yesterday in #yoh and #ztl
• Ruby static code analysis – thinksimple.pl – a look at flog, flay, heckle and reek
• Calling all authors: How to sell your books in the iBook store – more on self publishing in ibooks store
• Negroponte: One Laptop Per Child is now a $75 Android Tablet – The former head of MIT's Media Lab said the next OLPC device, the XO-3, would be a 9-inch tablet made by Marvell and running Google's Android OS.
• Apple opens iBookstore to self-publishers – one less reason not to self publish
• Skype Mobile with video calling coming to all Androids this year –

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 27th):

• Scaling Twitter Applications Without Blinking –

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 26th):

• 11K in 11 Hours: Pre-Launch Lessons Learned with Danielle LaPorte –
• Lego Safe is ultra secure – SlipperyBrick.com – 5 2 digit unlock codes, motion sensors, automatic door. crazy.
• RailsLab .:. State of the Stack: A Ruby on Rails Benchmarking Report – 25 May 2010 – @newrelic puts out a bunch of stats about their users rails stacks. ruby 1.8.6/1.8.7 and rails 2.3.5 are king.
• Rails 3 Dictionary for Mac OS X < Blog | Priit Haamer – another solution to offline docs
• IgniteNYC: The video! –

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 25th):

• Learn LabView –
• Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates – Smashing Magazine –
• Paper Browser: It’s a Browser only in Paper –
• Rethinking Cron –
• iPad as desktop status monitor –
• PhoneTell Adds Caller ID and Canned SMS Responses to Android –
• A List Apart: Articles: Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing –
• Inductor :: Mount Rack apps in Rails 3 –

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 20th through May 24th):

• cjohansen’s twibot at master – GitHub – Simple framework for creating Twitter bots, inspired by Sinatra
• jbarnette’s isolate at master – GitHub – Gem segregation.
• Alan deLevie – Feature Flippers with Rails – lets a site admin deploy/rollback features from a simple dashboard with a single click
• 50+ Online Generators for Designers and Web Developers – W3Mag –
• Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails 2.3.7 Released – a couple of bug fixes for rails_xss
• Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery – Smashing Magazine –
• Store | Konigi – The 5 1/4" floppy sketch book looks pretty cool.
• Soovle – Let the web help. –
• 2379 Free Web Design Icons | IconsPedia – maybe you can have too many icons
• 5 Basic Usability Breakdowns You Want to Avoid :: Echo Enduring Blog –
• Small Business SEO – 7 Essential Tips for Success – Online Marketing Blog –
• habitforge – Forge new habits. Change your life! –
• 6 Quick Tips to Search Twitter Like an Expert –
• Ingestible Surgical Robots—Hard To Swallow Concept? | Singularity Hub – No, it’s not a LEGO space station. This is ARES, the self-assembling robot you may someday have to swallow.
• schacon’s showoff at master – GitHub – the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love

Feels like I spent all day in meetings, again. More tomorrow. Ugh.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Google Analytics Application Gallery – who knew? There’s an app store for everything.
• Robotics Academy – Some links for FTC, going to try some randori pair programming with the high school robotics team using Labview.
• tl;dw – nginx,wpmu,bbpress,etc. I have 4 wordpress blogs setup for various orgs, wondering when it makes sense to switch over to wpmu, and this is for that.
• vim 7.2 formatting code – an update from Packt publishing to the “Hacking Vim” book, this is an excerpt from it.
• A personal branding checklist for Twitter – schedules, suggestions, etc.
• Dropbox on Android – installed. Oh, it’s on the iPad too.

Browser wars are still alive and well on my desktop. I love chrom*’s speed and each tab as a force-killable thread if needed. Not a fan of 1password integration, no form filling atm. Firefox is a beast and Safari, well, meh. Chromium’s my new default, we’ll see how long this lasts.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Forrst – designer and developer inspiration sharing.
• Mint – on my Droid now.
• MacRuby: The Definitive Guide – Matt Aimonetti’s Open Feedback O’Reilly book.
• Interface – iPhone mockups and prototyping, on the iPhone.
• heroku-sql-console – sometimes you need to get your hands dirty with SQL.
• George Starcher’s YouTube Channel – he’s got some great videos on how to set up a Mac to do podcasting with a lot of attention on getting really good sound as a source. Applying this to the next round of BDDCasts we record.
• ice cube – more recurring events.
• iPad Cabinet – an interesting kitchen hack. Recipes are a nagging problem in my attempts to be paperless.
• How to Set Up Your Freelance Business for the Long Haul – lots of things to do when you start out freelancing, this is a pretty good list.
• Ultimate Collection of Google Related Mac Apps – I had no idea there were this many. Calendar, Mail and Contacts are my main ones. They get sync’d through at least 4 different CRM-ish systems.
• Pimp Your Tables with CSS3 – prettier tables.
• Linode Backup Service – announced.
• Get your garage ready for summer – I just spent part of this weekend doing that. I’d buy less tools if I did this more often. Because I could find the tools.