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Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 21st):

• iPhone SDK Examples – iPhone SDK Example Code
• Twitter Streaming API + node.js + Appcelerator Titanium = Real-time tweet map – the appcelerator firehose (twitter streaming & node.js)
• Installing App Files with Appcelerator Titanium – persistence solutions with appcelerator titanium
• Making a combo-box in Titanium Appcelerator – code and video | cssgallery.info –
• Custom row for TableView in Appcelerator Titanium | cssgallery.info –
• Seven days with Titanium – day 2 – tables and pickers | cssgallery.info – titanium tables and pickers
• Seven days with Titanium – day 1 – windows, views, navigation and tabs | cssgallery.info – a look at titanium appcelerator's windows, views, navigation and tabs
• Appcelerator View RSS Feed | Two App Guys – quick rss reader tutorial using appcelerator titanium
• Devise 1.1 is out and ready to rock with Rails 3 | Plataforma Tecnologia Blog – why devise 1.1 will rock your rails 3 auths
• Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY the damn thing? – If you can't find ten people who say they'll buy it, your company is bullshit.
• Techneur – The Startup Idea Filter – idea a.d.d.
• CoffeeScript – javascript generator
• Underscore.js – Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.
• Where Do You Find Your Clients? – freelance switch poll asking you where you find your clients. tl;dr => word of mouth is the lion's share answer

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 8th):

• Securing Memcache in 2 Minutes – On the Path – Some advice on securing memcache
• astrails’s dotvim at master – GitHub – vim configuration options and plugins specifically tailored for Rails development Chris mentioned in his TM -> vim article.
• The Great Vim / TextMate Debate: Opinion #56 – Chris Lewis – more from the switch from TextMate to vim camp. Chris has some suggestions to make life easier for switchers.

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

• Sodeso – tips for getting more familiar with xcode
• IR_Black in XCode – ir_black for xcode<br />
  mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Xcode/Color\ Themes/<br />
  cp IR_black.xccolortheme there
• My First Week In The App Store | Swarm SG – looks like some folks are still getting Titanium Apps into the App Store.
• beheadedmyway’s gity at master – GitHub – Pretty nice looking and featureful os x git client. Open source too.
• AppsAmuck iPhone Development Tutorials and Examples – 31 simple example iphone apps to demonstrate concepts.
• Cocoa Source Code » Matt Legend Gemmell – Matt share's a bunch of code and widgets for xcode/cocoa
• facebook’s three20 at master – GitHub – Three20 is an Objective-C library for iPhone developers
• Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple, Part 2 – second part of the list to avoid app rejection, this one from the community.
• Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple – a list of things to watch for if you want to lower your chances of having your iphone app rejected by Apple
• The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development | Webdesigner Depot – giant list of resources for iphone development
• Alloy Code – Automatic Color Coding for script/console and irb – get some nice coloring in irb using awesome_print

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 17th):

• 7 Amazing Presentation Slides to Teach you How to Code with jQuery | web enavu – need to spend some time here
• Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: WooThemes – (37signals) – The next in the series.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 7th):

• Fat Free CRM on Heroku – Saturn Flyer – running fat free crm on heroku
• Steve Gill’s Blog » Blog Archive » Converting an iPhone PhoneGap app to a Palm PhoneGap app in 10 minutes – complete with video
• NodeJS Tutorial with CouchDB and Haml – ErdNodeFlips – A tutorial for creating a basic Node JS application. Using Node, CouchDB and Haml
• Rails Performance Needs an Overhaul – igvita.com – some comments on the state of the stack
• Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.02 released – Phusion Corporate Blog – another release of REE
• Understanding the Unobtrusive JavaScript technique – Simone Carletti’s Blog – UJS for dummies. Author's words, not mine.
• The Elegant Ruby Web Framework – Padrino Ruby Web Framework – Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra Microframework.
• Labnotes » My development stack – Assaf's current development stack. Never heard of pipemaster…
• Ruby Unroller – code tracing tool for ruby
• 8 tips for making ambush ‘guerilla user testing’ clip reel videos – how to stitch clips together from all your user testing
• 10 tips for ‘ambush guerilla user testing’ – tips for getting out among the humans in meatspace to do user testing

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 –

I managed to get Project M[SM] deployed to heroku, very cool, so far, when it works or when I get it right. Definitely tempting to say “deploy everything to heroku and be done with it”, we’ll see how this project goes, and maybe another.

Finishing up for a client tomorrow, 5 months earlier than expected, so I know a couple kick ass rails devs that have some immediate availability if you have a project. Get in touch if you do.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• 50 Mac Apps with well designed & sexy interfaces – mmmm, shiny. Lot of regular apps for me showed up in the list. I do love Postbox but I get too many beachballs of death for it to stay around long. My first impressions of Midnight Inbox are WOW.
• 10 Passive Marketing Opportunities for Freelancers – Mostly focused on designers but good to think about things from this perspective (passive marketing, ROI, etc) occasionally.
• America’s Best Place to Raise Your Kids – Didn’t include anything in the DC Metro Area.
• Deploying Spree Using Heroku – is a really thorough guide on getting most any app that uses compass deployed on heroku. This and removing a cache directive from my stylesheet_link_tag solved my problems.
• Coding Clean and Semantic Templates – Nice reminder that wrapping everything in div tags isn’t always the best idea.