Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 20th):
- Doing the Little Things to Please Clients | FreelanceFolder – the little things you can do to please clients, and stand out from the rest
- visionmedia’s git-extras at master – GitHub – GIT utilities — repo summary, commit counting, repl, changelog population and more
- github’s gollum at master – GitHub – github's making their git based wiki available
- 5 Site Metrics Every Small Business Should Track : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum – 5 metrics I should be tracking with google analytics.
- My friend the Rails console – Part II « Silence is Foo – more fun with the rails console
- 36 Things You Can Get Your Virtual Assistants To Do For You To Make Your Life Easier. | JoelsNews.com – another list of things you can get your VA to do
- Using a Client Welcome Packet to Get Off on the Right Foot – also heard of this as client on-boarding, this post even has a list of things you might want to include
- ku’s CreateLink at master – GitHub – chrome alternative to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2617/
- fortuity’s rails3-subdomain-devise at master – GitHub – An example Rails 3 app with subdomains and authentication (using Devise). With a tutorial.
- Skinny daemons | Head Labs – daemonized ruby process inside thin webserver
- Integration Testing Resque with Cucumber –
- Why aren’t you using git-flow? – Jeff Kreeftmeijer – git-flow. new to me.
- Just What Developers Need to Know | Use The Index, Luke! – Database performance for developers
- Email Sucks. 5 Time Saving Tips. – picked up on lifehacker, there's an interesting way to cull unknown yet still important email from the rest (email bankruptcy)
- Thinking in jQuery id-itis – first comes div-itis then comes id-itis? how to tame id-itis…
- 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers – ReadWriteCloud – interesting list of mistakes for API providers to watch out for
- Why Social Media Monitoring Tools Are About to Get Smarter – Mashable's take on what's next from social media monitoring tools
- Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA – Button and toolbar styling with jQuery UI CSS Framework.
Busy day this morning, 2 new projects, still only 24 hours in a day. Talked to another potential VA, I think I might need to chat with 1 or 2 one more time and narrow down my decision, hopefully early next week. Its the weekend, hopefully it will stop raining soon.
Interesting tidbits from around the web
- Online vCard Converter – I needed this to go from AddressBook Smart Groups vCard to CSV to use in Mad Mimi. Bottom line, vCard to lots of formats, including CSV.
- jQuery UI Multiselect – Pretty cool jQuery widget to deal with adding things one at a time to another thing from a giant list. A client pointed this out, I’m guessing because he wants something like this. Just a guess.
- 21 Awesome T-Shrits for Photographers – I like #13 and #14.
- 11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action – Interesting tip to talk directly to your audience using “you”.
- My Humble Android Sales Figures – Now that we’re a two droid family, I’m wondering what it would take to get into Android development on the mac. I have a few ideas for apps, of course.
- Why Ruby is a Wonderful Language – May not be scientific but it’s an interesting pic.
- How Freelance Businesses can measure Social Media Results – I was actually pretty down on LinkedIn and Twitter for their lack of producing viable clients. I’ve won my single largest work from twitter (employs me, a sub to me, my friend, and had one other on the team but that fell through).
- The Bikini Concept – Some analogies just stick, for me I think this one will. It’s been over 20 years since my 7th grade science teacher told me how long my paper should be, but I remember it like it was yesterday. She said, it should be like a short skirt; short enough to be interesting but long enough to cover the subject.
Had our first sprint review today. We’re coming together but we need to work more with the product owner to make sure we have enough stories, broken down into enough detail to fill our backlog (with a bit of buffer) for the next sprint. Spent a bit of time exploring themes with adva-cms between responding to Virtual Assistant responses to my RFP.
Interesting tidbits from around the web
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.
