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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 />
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  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 22nd):

• Modules – node – GitHub – possibly the defacto list for node.js modules
• Inkling – Interactive textbooks for iPad. – interactive textbooks on the ipad. doesn't look like an ipad-ish skim.app clone, would be nice to see a list of books coming to the platform though
• Naming Force® – make a name for yourself – creative business names – crowdsourced naming contests – crowdsource your business name or service/product name too, I guess
• Periodic Table of the Elements – Josh Duck – html5 elements in a periodic table

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 (July 20th through July 21st):

• How to be a successful iPhone developer – Really interesting post from a quite successful iphone dev.
• The Radioactive Yak: Mobile App Analytics (or how I stopped guessing and started measuring) – mobile analytics
• kfaustino’s rails-templater at master – GitHub – starting to see more rails templqtes for rails 3, like this one.
• Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Mini Frittata – anything with bacon has to be good
• AdBlock for Google Chrome now stops ads before they download – Finally.
• Getting started with Google Docs templates | Geek.com – How to actually save google documents as templates
• Cocoon – Grid-It – okay, this is pretty awesome. a grid of elastic bands to keep your gear organized in your bag.

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

• Invoice Like A Pro: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine – I use cashboardapp for this and I'm pretty happy. I need to get custom templates set up though and make the experience a lot more integrated.
• brendanlim’s mobile-fu at master – GitHub – Automatically detect mobile requests from mobile devices in your Rails application.

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 24th):

• How Zynga Uses Minimum Viable Products & Ghetto Testing | Grattisfaction – Mark Pincus talks about how Zynga uses minimum viable products to test demand so they don't waste time. Need to listen to the podcast.
• The Anatomy of an Effective Product Sales Page | Josh Klein’s Blog – an interesting dissection of the sales page for the 4HWW
• The Social Internet Survey Software & Online Survey Tool – They have the respondents, you provide the survey and get feedback.
• Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step – more ways to determine if you have a market for a viable product
• How to test the viability of your online business idea | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli – a run through of testing your product before it exists as described in 4HWW.
• Phusion Passenger 2.2.15 released – Phusion Corporate Blog – another release of passenger
• 20 Nao Robots Perform Awesome 8 Minute Dance Routine at Shanghai Expo (video) | Singularity Hub – No small feat. First 90 seconds aren't as interesting because it's all identical movements. Then the video starts getting into some individual movements and it's pretty amazing.
• Shapado – questions & answers – the site for the stack overflow clone, hosted, with plans.
• FAQ Pages: Best Practices and Examples – Noupe – sooner or later everything gets a FAQ
• Sencha – Sencha Touch Overview – HTML5 Mobile App Framework – Sencha Touch, an HTML5 mobile app framework for developing web apps with native look-and-feel on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices.
• Mac Media Center – Setup any Mac as a Media Center Easily – OS X Daily – another reason to try to find a refurb or used mini.
• Create Your Own Programming Language – @edavis10 mentioned this book, so I'm keeping track of it.
• meskyanichi’s deployer at master – GitHub – Deployer is gem that enhances Capistrano to simplify the deployment of Ruby on Rails applications. Surprised there aren't more like this.

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 –

Spent some time hacking away on project MSM. Was trying to get it pushed out to heroku today but I’m losing that fight. Has something to do with compass, sass and sass-on-heroku. I’ve moved compass out of the gem manifest, put it in environments/development.rb, wrapped the initializer with a check for Rails.env == “development”. I’m storing the generated css in git to push it across. I’ll play with it tomorrow I guess. Might be related to where compass likes to store sass and output the generated css.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

Still not sure whether to watch github repos, follow the authors, or bookmark them in delicious.

• fancy-buttons – Fancy CSS buttons using compass
• Designing CSS Buttons – Lots to say about buttons today.
• readernaut – in beta, found while trying to solve my heroku problems, oddly enough. Social reading. Here’s the 100 Best Books of the Decade (according to TimesOnline) to get you started. In case you were wondering, The DaVinci Code was #10.
• FFb3- Another beta, another opportunity. Still not happy with tabs and firefox, mostly restoring tabs, I won’t be trying until after I’m done here. This is why I care if they get restored.
• 7 Tips To Make Your Web Site Mobile-friendly – Browsed a couple of my sites on the Droid, and I have a pretty sizable display, there’s plenty of work for me to do in this area.
• MacRuby 0.5b2 – Keeps moving along, want to play with this at some point, soon I hope.
• Passenger 2.2.7 – WordPress updates, passenger update, going to be a server admin party in someone’s future.