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

• The Path to Better RVM & Passenger Integration – Ninjas on a Penny Farthing – making rvm and passenger work a little nicer with each other.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 1st):

• Uses of Systematization for Freelancers – I need more systems. Love to hear about any freelancers/biz owners have that are vital.
• 5 Tips for Starting a Fresh Work Week | The Daily Grid – some good ideas to get off on the right foot Monday morning.
• The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 3 – Closing the gap between development and production & rethinking the word “easy” – Phusion Corporate Blog – Wow, passenger lite looks pretty cool.

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 31st):

• Phusion Passenger 2.2.12 released –
• Customizing Rails Apps with Plugins – takes the blog in rails 3 examples and adds to it with a bunch of plataformatec plugins
• chneukirchen’s bacon at master – GitHub – a small RSpec clone

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.