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Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 24th):

• Metricly – Aggregated Dashboards for Every Business – more dashboard saas options
• Mac OS X Finder Toolbar Scripts for Textmate, Terminal, and Touch. – Manas Tungare – A few finder toolbar scripts
• Doppler for Heroku – Cloud Management on the Go – heroku management app for iphone and ipad
• 7 kick ass web apps to rock your conversion rate. – more ways to get feedback on your app
• Introducing Errbit – a hoptoad notifier "catcher". lets you install errbit behind a firewall, change hoptoad initializer to throw exceptions to it, and you're good to go.
• Summit Consulting Group – Million Dollar Consulting (TM) Hot Tips – reasons to convince the client that value-based pricing is the way to go
• Four Realities of Value-Based Pricing – The Guerrilla Consultant – Four ideas to help understand value-based pricing
• Why You Should Use Value Based Fees « The ERP Lifestyle Consultant – Some video clips on Value Based Fees with Alan Weiss and an accountant that's seen the light

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 6th):

• Son of Grok » Blog Archive » (Almost) Primal Poppers – everything is better with bacon
• olauzon’s tempatra at master – GitHub – A Sinatra application generator providing Blueprint CSS, jQuery, Haml, Sass, Compass, RSpec, Cucumber, and Capybara.
• WeeChat, the extensible chat client – another text based irc client, feels a bit like irssi
• Upstack – Products – Looks like another crowd sourced design platform.
• Auto-scale your Resque workers on Heroku | Verbose Logging – interesting post on how to get resque to auto-scale workers and how to get it all working on heroku
• Redis To Go | Resque with Redis To Go – Setting up resque with redis to go
• Komodo Media » Blog Archive » Social Network Icon Pack – huge set of social networking/media icons.
• matej’s MBProgressHUD at master – GitHub – MBProgressHUD is an iPhone drop-in class that displays a translucent HUD with a progress indicator and some optional labels while work is being done in a background thread. The HUD is meant as a replacement for the undocumented, private UIKit UIProgressHUD with some additional features.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 22nd):

• Locomotive — Ruby on Rails Open source CMS – Another player in the rails CMS world.
• Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator (courtesy of MailChimp) – upload a picture, get a color palette

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

• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Read Our Magazines – another version of the prags magazine, PragPub came out, this one covering icuke among other things
• Wouldn’t that be sweet? : Automatic A/B Testing – Yes, it would be sweet. A/B testing made brain dead simple, or automatic even. No solution, just some thoughts.
• Web Apps – Stack Exchange – yet another stack overflow site (YASOS?) this one for web app developers
• LEGO Education: Store: LEGO ® MINDSTORMS ® Education NXT Base Set – Looking at ways to raise money for the Gar-Field Robotics teams, might involve the NXT Base Set. Damn toys are expensive…
• Calagator: Portland’s Tech Calendar – @edavis10 told me about this when I threw together Meatspace Marketing. Have to go back and revisit it though, a few other places I could see using it and I really don't want to reinvent another wheel
• Streaming API: Methods | dev.twitter.com – might need to look at this instead of going straight against the search api, we'll see.
• RSoC status: bringing engines closer to application – Updates on engines
• Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend – Adam talks about Beanstalk, got here after reading about clockwork (the cron replacement).
• Design Patterns in Ruby: Adapter | DevInterface Blog – walk through of implementing an adapter in ruby
• Obie Fernandez: Meet David Allen at BizConf 2010 – GTD nuts have a reason to get to BizConf. Still trying to sell myself on the event. Love to go, but I'll be back down in FL a couple weeks later on vacation (like 2).
• PostgreSQL Monitoring Plugin – Another scoutapp plugin, this one for monitoring PostgreSQL (why isn't scoutapp available on heroku yet?). Feels like I've seen a new plugin a week from scoutapp, really need to spend some time to look at it.

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

• How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3 | PV.M Garage – 3d ribbons are the next beta badge, but they look cooler right now.
• What’s new in PostgreSQL 9.0 – PostgreSQL Wiki – Wow, lots to read about pg 9.0
• Divvy · Window management at its finest. – Looks like another version of SizeUp
• Soundboard | Ambrosia Software, Inc. – A sound board. Provides 1 key access to loads of sounds, useful when putting together audio with snips of other sources.
• Heroku | Default to Bamboo – new defaults for heroku stacks
• aeden’s activewarehouse-etl at master – GitHub – Extract-Transform-Load library from ActiveWarehouse

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

• API Cache – Simple library which makes it easy to add caching to all your external API calls.
• README.rdoc at master from mloughran’s api_cache – GitHub – Simple library which makes it easy to add caching to all your external API calls.
• How to Switch from Personal to Business Branding – Interesting ideas on migrating brands, personal to business in this case, but probably applicable across the board.
• Logo Nerds – Cheap logos.
• tmux – screen, but nicer, so @qrush says. need to dig into it.
• JQuery Corner Demo – ridiculous number of corners, should you need that type of thing, and can't make up your mind
• Google Font Directory – google fonts
• MongoHQ – The cloud-based hosted database solution for MongoDB. – MongoHQ. A cloud-based hosted database solution for MongoDB allows you to easily and quickly create and interact with MongoDB instances.
• Introducing Hulu Plus: More wherever. More whenever. Than ever. « Hulu Blog – People are bitching about commercials at $10/mo? Might have to revisit pulling the plug on my cable service.
• Introducing Organizations – GitHub – github adds organizations, a feature long overdue.
• neato robotics | Home of the Neato Robotics XV-11 Vacuum Cleaner – roomba's competition

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 15th):

• iPad MiFi Conversion for Verizon | Dish Television High Definition Store – Wow. Surgery on iPad and MiFi. Have the MiFi don't have the iPad nor the stones to crack it open and attempt this, but cool.
• Heroku | Rails 3 Beta 4 on Heroku – This has been a hot topic since RailsConf in #heroku
• Do It Yourself eBooks | Carsonified – options for creating and selling self published ebooks
• Rethinking PDF Creation in Ruby – more pdf options from ruby
• The future of shoulda – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS – tl;dr: shoulda is moving towards rspec with rails3
• Doing business in the US: useful legal primer for any company (124-page PDF) – showed up on HN, haven't looked at it yet though
• Case Studies in Freemium: Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic and MailChimp – tips from the top with freemium
• Brian Cardarella’s Blog — RVM Gemsets + Bundler == Awesome – I haven't gone to ruby@project_name yet but it's an interesting convention. rvm + bundler is full of win though.
• Who is accessing your Gmail account? – if you didn't have enough reasons to worry about google owning all your data, here's one more

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 27th):

• Scaling Twitter Applications Without Blinking –

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.