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Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 1st through September 2nd):

• Clouds & Clouds Midnight – TextMate Themes by Fred LeBlanc – not as nice as IR_Black but looks like a really nice theme none-the-less
• Think Vitamin » The Hidden Magic in TextMate – ⇧⌃T – To-do list – This feature scans the project for code marked as ‘FIXME’, ‘TODO’ and ‘CHANGED’. It provides an informative list of them along with comments.<br />
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  via thinkvitamin.com okay …
• WordPress › WordPress MU Domain Mapping « WordPress Plugins – This plugin allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain.<br />
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  via wordpress.org If I flip on the MU stuff it'll be to play with this …
• Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App – Great "cheat sheet" on some metrics to track (and how to track them) for your saas app
• Home – YoruFukurou – Awesome twitter client for mac, if it supported multiple accounts I'd use it all the time. If you only have one twitter, this might be for you.
• git cheatsheet and class notes – notes from a talk Nate did + a cheatsheet he created for git as well.
• Desirable Properties for a Web Crawler – I aim to build a web crawler that can download a billion pages in a week. Wow, awesomely ambitious goal, but some good tips about web crawlers/scrapers in general
• The 10 Essential Ingredients of Successful Sales Pages | Copyblogger – Looks like today is the day of copywriting tips
• Ten Ways to Improve Your Writing | Fuel Your Writing – Read aloud – When you think you’ve completed the writing task, read it aloud. Does the article flow, make sense, capture your interest and have a point?
• Ten Ways to Improve Your Writing | Fuel Your Writing – Read aloud – this has saved me countless times

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 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 14th):

• How to create your own Twitter background using Photoshop | Community Guy – Ben shows how to set up a custom twitter background and shares out the template he uses to do it with.
• Distractions and Correcting Focus « MacLitigator – Some tips and tools for dealing with pomodoros from a Lawyer, but applicable to just about everyone.
• How to Design Your Business Card | Webdesigner Depot – Some really interesting designs and ideas here, though for scanners (people that process your business card to digital) crazy shapes, circular printing and non-standard materials make it a pain in the ass to get it through my ScanSnap and into my system.
• Pivotal Labs: Talks – Loads of talks buy the pivotal crew, only thing they need is an rss (or better miro) feed.
• Video: How To Get Thousands of Visitors From Google – Keyword tips for good google juice on a blog post
• The Road to Rails 3 – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS – Thoughtbot has a bunch of open source code, here's where they sit in relation to latest rails (2.3.x and 3)
• Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths – sobering dose of reality for would be geek entrepreneur
• Next Chapter in the Lego Robotics Saga: Amazing Bipedal Walking (video) | Singularity Hub – Pinocchio lego robots

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

• DisclosurePolicy.org: Disclosure Policy, Disclosure Policy Generator – Generate a disclosure policy for your blog
• How much does a trademark cost? – wow. $1000-$3000 if you want to skip right to the end.
• Postmark | Your Rack – Another send mail saas, like sendgrid with different pricing.
• wildbit’s postmark-rails at master – GitHub – Postmark adapter for ActionMailer
• pjammer’s emacs_for_rails_devs at master – GitHub – Phil has shared his long hard journey of setting up someone elses setup so you don't have to set it up yourself.
• Safari Books Online’s Beta iPad App – Testers Wanted! « Safari Books Online’s Official Blog – This might be a really good reason to get an ipad.
• How To Get 8379 New Twitter Followers By Christmas | IttyBiz – Naomi gives straight-forward non-DB advice on growing your twitter following.
• How to Create Your Own Jedi Council | Nerd Fitness – he's certainly not ashamed of being a nerd. business folks call this a mastermind group.
• intridea’s authbuttons at master – GitHub – Free auth button images for multiple authentication relayers.
• 10 TextMate bundles/plugins to boost your Ruby on Rails development productivity – most of these are in my dotfiles, not all of them get used as much as maybe they should
• MongoDB: A first look –
• 153 Links Every Start Up Should BookMark — EDUKATR – lots of links, probably some you haven't seen but a lot you have.
• Outside-In BDD: How?! – Sarah's take on BDD and how she does outside-in development
• A Guide to Google Font API –
• Google Storage for Developers – Google Code – more ways for google to own you
• Unboxed Consulting – Blog – Cucumber + iPhone = iCuke – cucumber stories for iphone dev
• PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 8.3: Data Types – a list of built in types for pg

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 27th):

• Scaling Twitter Applications Without Blinking –

Interesting tidbits from around the web (May 20th through May 24th):

• cjohansen’s twibot at master – GitHub – Simple framework for creating Twitter bots, inspired by Sinatra
• jbarnette’s isolate at master – GitHub – Gem segregation.
• Alan deLevie – Feature Flippers with Rails – lets a site admin deploy/rollback features from a simple dashboard with a single click
• 50+ Online Generators for Designers and Web Developers – W3Mag –
• Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails 2.3.7 Released – a couple of bug fixes for rails_xss
• Make Your Own Bookmarklets With jQuery – Smashing Magazine –
• Store | Konigi – The 5 1/4" floppy sketch book looks pretty cool.
• Soovle – Let the web help. –
• 2379 Free Web Design Icons | IconsPedia – maybe you can have too many icons
• 5 Basic Usability Breakdowns You Want to Avoid :: Echo Enduring Blog –
• Small Business SEO – 7 Essential Tips for Success – Online Marketing Blog –
• habitforge – Forge new habits. Change your life! –
• 6 Quick Tips to Search Twitter Like an Expert –
• Ingestible Surgical Robots—Hard To Swallow Concept? | Singularity Hub – No, it’s not a LEGO space station. This is ARES, the self-assembling robot you may someday have to swallow.
• schacon’s showoff at master – GitHub – the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love

Feels like I spent all day in meetings, again. More tomorrow. Ugh.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Google Analytics Application Gallery – who knew? There’s an app store for everything.
• Robotics Academy – Some links for FTC, going to try some randori pair programming with the high school robotics team using Labview.
• tl;dw – nginx,wpmu,bbpress,etc. I have 4 wordpress blogs setup for various orgs, wondering when it makes sense to switch over to wpmu, and this is for that.
• vim 7.2 formatting code – an update from Packt publishing to the “Hacking Vim” book, this is an excerpt from it.
• A personal branding checklist for Twitter – schedules, suggestions, etc.
• Dropbox on Android – installed. Oh, it’s on the iPad too.

Hurry up and wait. Pitching a proposal with @pjammer so spent some time working on that. Things looked easy, then didn’t, then did, now my head hurts, so we’ll look at it tomorrow. Getting a pretty decent plan in place to get across the finish line with a new product. Hoping to finish it up and get some feedback sometime this weekend.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• MacRuby 0.6 – is out and with loads of changes.
• Rendera – written by @bphogan, I used it to help someone install rvm this morning while @wayneeseguin’s site was down. The source is on github, based on nanoc3 and using haml. Either read haml or dump it to rendera and let it do the hard work. I couldn’t find the permalink feature of rendera in my haste, which was the end goal.
• NginxConfiguration – loads and loads of Nginx configurations.
• Ingredients – doc viewer for cocoa. Github repository.
• android-delicious-bookmarks – love delicious, have a droid, what else is there to say?
• icebrrg – forms
• iPhone and iPad Dev Kits, Stencils and Icons – ridiculous number of resources.
• Heroku + MongoHQ addon in public beta – for now it’s only the free plan with up to a 16MB single database.
• Startup Lessons Learned – another set of notes and summaries.
• Posterous link switching – initial discussion here and loads more on HN.
• jQuery LiveTwitter – they had me at bacon.

Started the first round of discussions with some Virtual Assistants today. Also spent a ridiculous amount of time working on a flyer for a networking meetup this evening. If I already had a VA maybe she could have done it and I could have written more code. Mmmmmm, code. She could probably figure out what to use for my sprint demo tomorrow (webex, goto meeting, etc) and set all that up. Good suggestion for that? 4-8 people, need to see 1 screen with voice chat.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• @jschoolcraft/railsbridge – Had to happen sooner or later, the RailsBridge twitter list of goodness. Lots of interesting projects happening because of some really awesome folks.
• Erin Blaskie – Definitely a new media Virtual Assistant wonder woman. I initially found her from this youtube video. She has a million things going on and they all look awesome. I think she might be a tad out of my league as a VA but damn she speaks geek, uses basecamp, and does all the stuff I don’t want to do.
• RailsCollab – I haven’t look at this in a long time, but I fired it up today and it’s looking pretty good.
• AppTabs – Sounds like a really cool idea but didn’t look nearly as good on my machine.
• FF3.6b2 – Why not, the last one went well
• A FireFox setup – some interesting bits like Multi Links. Once I figure out if I can get Ubiquity to become part of my workflow I’ll post my setup. There were a few doc commands for Ubiquity for Rails and Ruby but they were against the old API, does someone have new ones?
• Securing WordPress – I need to do the .htaccess bit and restrict access to admin from my IP though it looks to have a few consequences.
• MySQL Defaults – and how to tweak them, according to Jeremy Zawodny for high volume sites.
• 6 Tips for Using Google Wave on Your First Project – More tips to try to find a good use case for waves. I mentioned Wave at the meetup tonight, I got a lot of confused stares. Maybe in a couple years it’ll be teh awesome, but for now it’s still ultrageek cutting edge at best.
• Turkey Brining – What? It’s almost Thanksgiving. I love brining my turkeys, Alton Brown was my introduction but this post is even deeper into the details.
• Gifts for Designers – Interesting list of gifts for designer types. Notepod looks interesting, like a really expensive custom Moleskine but neat nonetheless. But Food Face? I think I’m getting that for my girls for Christmas, how can they not eat their dinner on that plate?
• KniQuil – Organic NyQuil, so they say. Mint leaves, agave nectar, green chiles, Southern Comfort and other stuff.