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Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 28th):

• phronos’s rails_datatables at master – GitHub – Rails plugin for the jQuery Datatables library, makes life easier
• jQuery Sparklines – sparklines, coming to a page near you compliments of this jQuery plugin
• The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed :: Tips :: The 99 Percent – When we lose momentum, we become vulnerable to distraction, self-doubt, and apathy. A look at how constant motion is crucial to idea execution.
• DataTables (table plug-in for jQuery) – pretty nice "data table" plugin in jQuery.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 25th):

• Testing the concept: how we decide on the next killer app | Go Tripod – Figuring out which idea to work on next
• Top 10 Most Important Pages Every Blog Or Website Should Have – decent list of "standard" pages for your website/blog
• Social Media Icon Sets (free) – a ton of social media icon sets
• WordPress › Easy Privacy Policy « WordPress Plugins – adsense privacy policy plugin, who knew
• WordPress › Pretty Link « WordPress Plugins – Another plugin to consider adding to the mix

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 26th):

• Flutie – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS – consistent, sane style for new projects from Thoughtbot implemented as a rails 3 engine and released as a gem.
• 101 Books That Hook Kids On Reading | Online Universities – a list of books to get kids hooked on reading, hopefully we're being good examples and reinforcing the habit
• Rails 3.0: Release candidate – loads of fixes since beta 4, rails 3 is on the way, soon

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 22nd):

• microISV Resources | microISV Research Alliance – list of microisv resources
• Gotham Ruby Conference on Vimeo – GoRuCo 2010 videos up on vimeo, have to pick some to watch
• aanand’s deadweight at master – GitHub – CSS coverage tool
• Dust-Me Selectors – find un used css
• Sailing down the Hudson with RVM – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS – How thoughtbot is using Hudson to do CI and how RVM is keeping them sane. Comments have notes from Ben Mabey with pointers to some chef cookbooks to get a CI hudson server up in 10 minutes.
• Beautiful Markup « Envy Labs – John Athayde on Curing Div-itis with Semantic Html, CSS, and Presenters. Redone for Gregg Pollack and luckily put online.
• Programmer Puzzlers | logic and coding puzzles to bend your brain and teach you to think smarter – puzzles for people that invent problems just so they can solve them.
• jQuery Fundamentals – another open source book, cc3 share alike with access to github source. this one on jQuery Fundamentals.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 21st):

• Rails Plugins Compatibility Tracking – RailsPlugins.org – upgrading to rails 3? let others know what plugins work and don't, or look for your must haves to see if you want to make the leap.
• Business Insurance, Small Business Insurance, Professional Liability Insurance, Business Liability Insurance, General Liability Insurance – might need business and E&O insurance, heard this is a good source.
• How to Generate Hundreds of Writing Ideas – more ideas on ideas
• 6 Tips to Generate Outstanding Ideas – more tips on idea generation
• Get Mentally Fit with an Idea Quota – come up with X ideas every day => idea quota.
• Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100 – The List of 100 is a powerful technique you can use to generate ideas, clarify your thoughts, uncover hidden problems or get solutions to any questions.
• Your App’s Website Sucks » Matt Legend Gemmell – If your website is trying to sell a product, here's some insight.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 5th through June 6th):

• Is Your Landing Page Just Collecting Email Addresses? « art/van/kilmer – because you could be using it a bit more effectively
• Become a morning person. How to end insomnia for $520.99 – humbledMBA – kill blue light at night and mimic sunlight in the morning for better sleep
• LowBlueLights.com – products to help filter out blue light
• Drug dealers shouldn’t make iPhone apps « Max Klein – and gigolos shouldn't sell motorcycles. A piece on doing what you know.
• Your Web App has Launched – Now What? | Carsonified – with all the talk about getting to launch, here's a bit about what happens next
• BlogKit, a Plugin to Add a Blog to your Rails App – Agile Productions – looks like something to play with
• Launch it, quick! – Josh Owens is a Rails Freak – how to get your MVP out the door quickly
• Rails 3, RSpec, and Cucumber @ Not A Hat – The landscape is changing pretty quickly and there are lots of sharp edges, this is how it currently works.
• LakTEK – Handy Git commands that saves my day – I need to make some of these a more regular occupant of my toolbox.
• New Tax Bill Raising Eyebrows | taxgirl – First, the title: American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010. Makes you all warm and fuzzy doesn't it?

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 26th):

• 11K in 11 Hours: Pre-Launch Lessons Learned with Danielle LaPorte –
• Lego Safe is ultra secure – SlipperyBrick.com – 5 2 digit unlock codes, motion sensors, automatic door. crazy.
• RailsLab .:. State of the Stack: A Ruby on Rails Benchmarking Report – 25 May 2010 – @newrelic puts out a bunch of stats about their users rails stacks. ruby 1.8.6/1.8.7 and rails 2.3.5 are king.
• Rails 3 Dictionary for Mac OS X < Blog | Priit Haamer – another solution to offline docs
• IgniteNYC: The video! –