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

• stJhimy – Rails 3, Ruby and JQuery documentation into Mac OS Dictionary – via stjhimy.com updated osx dictionary files for rails 3, ruby and jquery. …
• Premium WordPress Themes | Elegant Themes – via elegantthemes.com Looks like another good, affordable source of wordpress themes. …
• Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Schedule – Confreaks, LLC – via confreaks.net Lots of "coming soon" videos, but they have a link to Glenn Vanderburg's "Real Software Engineering" that got a bunch of positive press on twitter during the ruby #ho …
• How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea | Ramblings of a Web Startup in Progress . . . – I am a big fan this whole “minimum viable product” philosophy. I’ve probably adapted it to my own interpretation, but basically I look at it as bootstrapping on crack, get your product out with …
• Google Wave Gets Server/Web Client – Linux Magazine Online – For everyone that thought Wave was in the ground, buried, there might be life yet. Wave in a box.
• UniversityTutor Races Past 200 Paying Customers – via startbreakingfree.com Brian share's his 2 year journey to more than 200 paying customers for his SaaS app. …
• Slaying dragons with git, bash, and ruby – Ruby Pond – An often over-looked feature when using git are the various hooks you have available. They cover pre-applypatch, post-update, and anything between or beyond. I suspect a lot of people may have …
• How to Make Client-Converting Pages That Sell | Jaime Mintun – via jaimemintun.com Tips on how to make a good landing page. …

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.

Feels like a long day today, getting up at 3:45a probably has something to do with that. Prepared a bunch of food to take down to my parents for Thanksgiving tomorrow, should be fun times.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• 12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress – I still haven’t upgrade, weekend project?
• Minimum Viable Product: a guide – Search, Feed and maybe a tad tweak to roles and project M hits MVP.
• Kanban Games – Like the lego game, right now it’s a retro “Under Construction” which looked like it took more time to do that just putting up a wiki. Should be useful ideas for explaining things kanban/agile/lean etc to those not in the know.
• 9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide – I’ve heard or seen them all except the “Voronoi” and I had no idea a polar area was called the “Nightingale”.
• Build an Application (Even if it Already Exists) – Definitely agree with the building app part.
• 7 Easy Steps to Get You Started with Goal Setting – I guess it’s that time of year again.
• FireQuery – Firebug extension for jQuery development
• My top 7 RSpec best practices – Nice list.