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

• 10 Ways to Create a Better About Page for Your Blog – Making your about pages more useful
• iPhone App Dev Online Conference, brought to you by Think Vitamin – Think Vitamin is putting on a one day, online, iPhone Developer conference.
• State of the Art – Presenting the MiFi of Your Dreams – NYTimes.com – Third, the service price for this no-commitment, unlimited, portable hot spot is — are you sitting down? — $40 a month.<br />
  <br />
  via nytimes.com Wow. Who want's to buy my Verizon MiFi and take o …
• Ruby Summer of Code Wrap Up – Ninjas on a Penny Farthing – The final thing I worked on (and that is mostly complete, but still has a few bugs)<br />
  was an Ubuntu-based Virtual Appliance that makes it super simple for any user to get started<br />
  with rvm and h …
• One day sale made my paid app free, now I cannot revert! – Android Developers | Google Groups – Nothing — once free, always free. You can publish a new app, in a new package, that has a price.<br />
  <br />
  via groups.google.com Wow, sucks not to know this ahead of time. If you're an Android …
• Rails 3 in a Nutshell – rails3 in a nutshell in O'Reilly's "open feedback" publishing system.
• Sending or receiving email with Rails? Easy | Lead Thinking – Another "receive email from rails" solution. this one involving google app engine and remail-engine which costs ($0.0001/recipient w/ 2000 free).
• Receiving Incoming Email in Rails 3 – choosing the right approach « Steve @ DynamicEdge – A rundown of some options for receiving email in your Rails 3 app
• Cocoia Blog » iPhone 4 icon PSD file – PSD file for iPhone, iPad and the rest of the iOS suite, whatever that turns out to be.
• All the sizes of iOS app icons – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl – visual guide to iOS icons
• 12 Common CSS Mistakes Web Developers Make – css tips for web developers
• Design Optimization: Webbynode’s Front Page +45% conversion rates. | Vospe – via vospe.com Walkthrough of how Webbynode redesigned their front page to get a big boost in conversions. …
• GitMac – Git on a Mac, Made Easy – Another git gui client for mac, pretty but not sure what it brings that I'm not already getting with gitx
• MacUpdate September 2010 Bundle – 12 Great Apps for $49.99 – via mupromo.com Another MacUpdate bundle is out, 12 apps for $50. Looks like a no-brainer if you want Toast 10 Titanium (pays for itself and then some). Other good looking apps (to m …

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 23rd):

• 7 Thoughts on Value Pricing for Software Projects : Jonathan Stark – some thoughts on value based pricing for software projects
• Cheap Flyer, Poster, Postcard and T-Shirt Printing – Never compete on price. In other news, this is the cheapest online printing source.
• CRU-TS 2.1 Climate Database | CGIAR-CSI – downloadable climate data
• Development Server – Wiki – Remarkable Wit Development – A more up to date version of the Redmine/Gitosis install
• GitHub Clone with Redmine ↯ xdissent.com – Very detailed walk through on trying to replicate the Github FI using redmine and gitosis.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 20th):

• Doing the Little Things to Please Clients | FreelanceFolder – the little things you can do to please clients, and stand out from the rest
• visionmedia’s git-extras at master – GitHub – GIT utilities — repo summary, commit counting, repl, changelog population and more
• github’s gollum at master – GitHub – github's making their git based wiki available
• 5 Site Metrics Every Small Business Should Track : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum – 5 metrics I should be tracking with google analytics.
• My friend the Rails console – Part II « Silence is Foo – more fun with the rails console
• 36 Things You Can Get Your Virtual Assistants To Do For You To Make Your Life Easier. | JoelsNews.com – another list of things you can get your VA to do
• Using a Client Welcome Packet to Get Off on the Right Foot – also heard of this as client on-boarding, this post even has a list of things you might want to include
• ku’s CreateLink at master – GitHub – chrome alternative to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2617/
• fortuity’s rails3-subdomain-devise at master – GitHub – An example Rails 3 app with subdomains and authentication (using Devise). With a tutorial.
• Skinny daemons | Head Labs – daemonized ruby process inside thin webserver
• Integration Testing Resque with Cucumber –
• Why aren’t you using git-flow? – Jeff Kreeftmeijer – git-flow. new to me.
• Just What Developers Need to Know | Use The Index, Luke! – Database performance for developers
• Email Sucks. 5 Time Saving Tips. – picked up on lifehacker, there's an interesting way to cull unknown yet still important email from the rest (email bankruptcy)
• Thinking in jQuery id-itis – first comes div-itis then comes id-itis? how to tame id-itis…
• 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers – ReadWriteCloud – interesting list of mistakes for API providers to watch out for
• Why Social Media Monitoring Tools Are About to Get Smarter – Mashable's take on what's next from social media monitoring tools
• Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA – Button and toolbar styling with jQuery UI CSS Framework.

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

• Git Reference – git reference site
• iPhone Pull to Refresh – how to add tweetie style refresh at the end of a list

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 24th through July 25th):

• Thoughts about Rails from a Django guy – Shizzle – Lenni sips from the rails koolaid and gives his impressions. (He's a django/python guy)
• A few git tips you didn’t know about – Some hidden gems of git version control
• nutshell — Lettuce v0.1.9 (barium release) documentation – cucumber : rails as lettuce : django.
• Armed Robots Deployed By South Korea in Demilitarized Zone on Trial Basis | Singularity Hub – Okay, science fiction is truly here today. Thinking of the voice activated robot sentries in Judge Dredd.
• Customizing IRB, 2010 edition at Adventures with Ruby – Updated .irbrc to include a bunch of new hotness for your irb sessions

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 23rd):

• Sauce Labs – Selenium-based Downloads, Hosting and Support – in the cloud cross-browser testing with selenium.
• Continuous Deployment, Code Review and Pre-Tested Commits on Digg4 | Digg About – Digg talks about how they're doing continuous deployment and mention tools too.
• Pricing – Harmony Website Management – Harmony is finally being opened up to the public. They've announced pricing.
• Chromium Updater | Sean’s Bloggity – My last updater clobbered itself and chromium, so I killed it and was using the updater plugin, but that's a manual process. So I found this, modified it a bit to be a little more generic and threw it into my dotfiles (http://github.com/jschoolcraft/dotfiles)

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 5th):

• 99 Icon Sets To Use In Commercial Design Projects | Creative Nerds – Free icons you can use in commercial projects
• Fake – Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple. – Safari plus Automator to create frankenstien web tests or browser automation
• Git Fake Submodules » Debuggable Ltd – A work around for people who like submodules in theory, but not practice.
• The Life Of A Radar » Blog Archive » uninitialized constant RSpec with Cucumber – tip for running cucumber and rspec 1 and 2 concurrently
• adamwiggins’s clockwork at master – GitHub – A scheduler process to replace cron.
• PADILICIOUS – How to make books for the iPad and ibook store

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 25th):

• clarkware’s iphone-rails-tutorial at master – GitHub – Mike Clark's iphone talking to a rails app through RESTful resources, from railsconf.
• Git – Host Git Based Development Networks with Girocco on Debian 5 (Lenny) – Linode Library – Use the Girocco engine from repo.or.cz to provide easy access to Git repositories.
• arsduo’s koala at master – GitHub – A lightweight, flexible library for Facebook's new Graph API.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 13th):

• Notion Ink Adam Pops Back In, Still on Track for Q3 Release | Android Phone Fans – they're keeping the adam in the news just enough to keep me interested
• What is your most productive shortcut with Vim? – Stack Overflow – how to grok vim
• Grokking the Zen of the Vi Wu-Wei | Jeet Sukumaran – understanding vim
• It’s Magit! – git for emacs
• Ego — You’re important. – web stats dashboard for ipad
• Flawless iPad user interface designs that you just have to see – CreativityDen – nice set of examples