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Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 11th):

• Cloudkick | Cloud monitoring and management tools – cloud monitoring and management saas
• Setting up a Hudson Continuous Integration Testing Server for Ruby(and Rails) | Tommy Chheng – quick walk through on setting up hudson ci server for rails
• AdGrok | Search engine marketing for the masses. – guided search engine marketing as a service
• How persuasive is your website’s copy? A simple, five-step checklist | Design Shack – some ideas on making your site copy more persuasive
• The Zero Dollar, 5 Minutes Market Research – Marc-André Cournoyer’s blog – quick tip for finding new business ideas

Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 3rd):

• WCCC Production Systems Status Board | Inside the Mind of Sators – More dashboard inspiration
• Jonathan Oxer: Building a Status Screen, part 3: Display – Blog – Jon has a whole series on building a panic inspired dashboard
• Ecommerce Dashboard on TV | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – another dashboard example, going to have to put my own together rsn.
• Arrivals | Development Status | Cultured Code – One of the status boards that started it all

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

• Robert Escriva’s Blog – recording of a lecture Robert gave on Using git
• Google Trends – for niche research
• Press75.com | Exceptional WordPress Themes – more wp themes

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.