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Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 16th):

• Linode Blog » Linode Turns 7, BIG RAM Increase – Awesome sauce. I'll probably consolidate my other slices to linodes.
• Agile Testing: Common nginx configuration options – tips for your nginx configurations
• YouTube – Autotest Status Indicator for Rails – LED status indicator for continuous testing in Ruby on Rails. Like ambient orb for CI but for autotest. cool
• Launchlist – Your one stop website checklist! – Interesting checklist if you're launching a website. Can add fields to tailor it.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (June 8th):

• Rogue Amoeba | Freebies: Free Software for Mac OS X – sound source is worth it here, lets you switch audio sources (input and output). really handy for going from line out to mic. thanks to @joebeninghove for the tip
• Anti-Social – Mac/OS X Social Networking Block Software – block access to know time sinks
• About Pages: Good, Bad, and Missing | UX Booth – answer the questions you learned in grade school, who what when where why (how I guess, if you want to)
• BohConf: The Best Ruby Conference Ever – The Majestic Sea Creature – ugh. replacing the valve body in my milan or I'd be commuting for this.
• Reducing the load on a small VPS by 80% in 5 minutes | TurnKey Linux Blog – rationale and tips for reducing prefork tasks/workers
• 11 UI Kits for iPhone and iPad Development | Freebies – psd's and such for iPhone and iPad
• Notion Ink Adam delayed until this November | BestTabletReview.com – Dammit the Adam may be dead. iPad is looking better and better.

Yes, I’m picking up where I left off, like nothing ever happened.

Spent some time with Meatspace Marketing today. I used Adam Salter’s sitemap_generator to help me build a decent sitemap. I wanted to have all my Organizers and Events listed for some google juice.

To make it juicier I used Norman Clarke’s friendly_id (which is awesome) so I could have organizers in my site map that looked like http://meatspacemarketing.com/organizers/prince-william-county-regional-chamber-of-commerce. And events that looked like http://meatspacemarketing.com/events/freeni-lorton-2010-03-02. Really cool stuff, I’ll never try to do this on my own again.

Interesting tidbits from around the web:

• Fetch – Before we built BDDCasts.com from scratch we looked at Spree to see if we could use rather than build. Spree was tied to a physical inventory and there were some plugins that tried to handle digital assets and infinite inventory but none of them felt right. Fetch handles digital assets and supports a ton of options for payment including Shopify and Google Checkout.
• FFF Tusj – A pretty cool font that Curtis had found.
• The Six Landing Page Conversion Rate Factors – I joined the Micropreneur Academy and Startup Todo and have been getting pretty serious about actually making money off the software I write and not just my time to write it. Lots of other things I need to figure out how to do or pay other people to do that doesn’t involve code, this is but one of them.
• kall8 – Toll Free Number for $2 month. I pay for Skype and have Google Voice so I’m not sure if it’s worth it or not, but I’ll keep it in my delicious.
• vCloud Express – an offering from Hosting.com. Not exactly the heroku model but as more of these people get into the space hopefully I can move all my apps to the cloud and not admin another box while not going broke at the same time.

Spent some time on code coverage this morning for Project G, refactored some really ugly bits out of the view and back into the controller and sometimes model. No, Project M didn’t sneak out over the weekend, I need to add search and it’ll be my 1.0.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• In praise of demos – You spend all this time writing code, you ought to invest a few hours for someone to actually be able to try it out. We set up http://demo.bddcasts.com/ there’s no authentication so you can add Brands and Search Terms, we reset the database to a known state before we hit twitter. We didn’t want to let a spammer burn through our API calls, probably should put this off to it’s own post.
• Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices – Some common sense, some interesting nuggets.
• Link LinkedIn into your next Ruby application – Yes, he probably could have used link or in one or two more times in the title. Be interesting to see what people do with this.
• Built In Book Cases – These look really slick, I’d like to do this in my basement at some point.
• Review of Easy and Inexpensive Tools for Usability Testing – Turned up a few I hadn’t seen before.
• VPS Performance Comparison – Pretty thorough comparison. Still, someone needs to build a slider tool like heroku has and then show what it costs across the cloud/vps hosts around.