- SystemTap - SystemTap provides free software (GPL) infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the
- Who Needs an API? ? err.the_blog - Pledgie being the venerable service it is, I decided one night it couldn?t possibly be that hard to integrate it with GitHub. It?s a pretty standard Rails site with some simple forms to make the magic happen (eg. setup a donation page).
They don?t
- delinkydink - Google Code - A firefox extension that watches your del.icio.us "links for you" page and alerts you with a message when a new one exists. You can then click on the link and it will open it in the browser for you. To send your current page to a del.icio.us user in you
- Getting Paid the Open Source Way ? GitHub - This afternoon we?re rolling out the ability for every public project on GitHub to, dare I say, make money. You?re now one click away from adding a Pledgie badge to any of your projects. Pledgie is a great service offering a simple and effective way t
- SimpleViewer Download - # Intelligent image pre-loading.
# Intuitive image navigation
# Lightweight (17k).
# Customizable interface - Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
# Resizable interface - Interface scales to fit browser window.
# Cross platform - Wi - doctype - doctype - Google Code - Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.
- Totlol - Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents - Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.
Totlol is in early testing phases and this means that at most times, most things, will work as most would expect. But someti
- Spiceworks - Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management - You want a network you can manage, not a network that manages you! You wish you could have it… without spending a fortune. Your wish is granted.
Introducing the free Spiceworks IT Desktop and Community. Used by 325,000 IT pros in 194 countries. Spicewo
- Firebug and Logging - Having a fancy JavaScript debugger is great, but sometimes the fastest way to find bugs is just to dump as much information to the console as you can. Firebug gives you a set of powerful logging functions that you can call from your own web pages.
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- Q… Life on the Net - Ruby on Rails and BackgroundRB - multiple progress bars with ActiveScaffold - Blognow - I want to use ActiveScaffold, and allow me to upload files to the server, but these files are documents and then I want to be able to click "import" on each entry and with AJAX show EACH document individually being processed in the background with the per
May
14
- the { buckblogs :here }: Skinny Controller, Fat Model - When first getting started with Rails, it is tempting to shove lots of logic in the view. I?ll admit that I was guilty of writing more than one template like the following during my Rails novitiate:
- Your Tech Weblog: Want a rotary iPhone dialer? You'll get one. - It's called RetroPhone, and company founders Bill Heyman and Damon Allison showed it to me today ahead of the app's public unveiling at MinneBar tomorrow (I have a story about CodeMorphic and MinneBar in the Pioneer Press).
- Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails - CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you?ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
- NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world - The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the connections between people. Over 32,000 individuals are listed in our network.
- lunchn.com - If you and your friends enjoy going out to lunch regularly, lunchn is a valuable tool to help answer that common question you face each time you get together. What's for lunch? lunchn provides an easy to use site for you and your lunch friends to quickly
- Bruce Lee?s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape - Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety. Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do. And as the clutter in your outer world decr
- Hackszine.com: Cross browser session data with Javascript - By storing data in the window.name property, you can store data between page loads and across domains without ever sending a cookie to a server. Thomas Frank created the sessvars.js library which makes use of this browser quirk, allowing you to store up t
- favicon.ico Generator - Choose a color, Click on the squares and paint your logo, Download when you are finished, Put the favicon.ico file into your webserver directory, Optionally publish it under the CC (Creative Commons) license
- Trac Git Plugin - Trac - This is a plugin for Trac that adds support for the Git version control system. We use it here at nanosleep.org. It's our branch of the work done by Herbert Valerio Riedel over at trac-hacks.org (see their project page), with some speedup hacks and bug fi
- Convert Youtube and Myspace Video to MP3! Only at VidtoMP3.com - VidToMP3 is a brand new site that allows you to download the audio from none-copyrighted video clips on video sites! We support all of your favorites, Myspace, Youtube, Google video and more. Remember to bookmark our Video to Sound converter for all your
May
12
- Dialog 2.0 - Dialog, show things nicely
- Twitter / DHH: Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagg… - Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged, the gems are on the beta server, official announcement shortly. But no need holding you back from trying it.
- myhab - eco-friendly festival accommodation - luxury festival accommodation that's green, affordable and hassle-free - that's myhab. for uk festival-goers looking for a great alternative to a soggy tent miles from the action, we offer cool living in the day (that keeps you comfy at night) in our uniq
- Games: Phun Teaches Physics Lessons the Best Way Possible - Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Phun, a free open-source, cross-platform 2D physics simulator, makes you want to pick up blocks, or maybe crayons, and learn more about the way things fall and move under pressure. Written by a Swedish graduate student,
- iBanjo » Blog Archive » Subversion 1.5 merge-tracking in a nutshell - Merge-tracking is when your version control system keeps track of how lines of development (branches) diverge and re-form together. Historically, open source tools such as CVS and Subversion haven?t done this at all; they?ve relied on ?advanced? u
May
11
- Renoise - About Renoise - A different approach to music composing. Renoise has a unique bottom-up approach to music making. With its vertical timeline and streamlined interface, Renoise lets you have direct control over the composition.
May
10
- John Resig - Processing.js - # Types and type casting - Type information is generally discarded, but becomes important in variable declaration and in casting (which is generally handled well).
# Classes - The full class system is supported (can be instantiated, etc. just fine).
# Met - Jake Scruggs: Dead Simple Rails Metrics with metric_fu - It's a bunch of rake tasks that produce reports on code coverage (using Rcov), cyclomatic complexity (using Saikuro), flog scores (using Flog), and rails stats (using 'rake stats'). It knows if it's being run inside a CruiseControl.rb build and puts the o
- Insoshi: open-source social networking platform in Ruby on Rails - Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social ne
- Gadgets: Charger Powers Up Gadgets, Illuminates Dark Areas and Really Works Your Calves - It seems nobody's extrapolated the operation of a complete gym through these type generators. Imagine it: people pay you (membership fees) to work nautilus-type machines which generate electrcity for the televisions and A/C in the gym. It's all micro-grid
- Estimate, Invoice, and Time Tracking Software for your business : Cashboard - Cashboard tracks time and money so you can worry about more important things.
Have you ever forgotten to send an invoice or collect a payment?
Are you spending more time doing paperwork than actually making money?
Do you need an easy to use invoicing s
- JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) at noumena - The JIT is an advanced JavaScript infovis toolkit that was based on 5 papers regarding different information visualization techniques.
The JIT implements advanced features of information visualization like Treemaps (with the slice and dice and squarified - eazysvn - Subversion branching and merging made a bit easier - Eazysvn is a Python script that simplifies some common operations with Subversion branches. It is based on based on Philipp von Weitershausen's ezmerge.py (which you can find at codespeak.net).
- Merging - Where branches are used to maintain separate lines of development, at some stage you will want to merge the changes made on one branch back into the trunk, or vice versa.
- Paul Gross's Blog - Automatically merge changes from branch to trunk - This task first checks to see if we are on the branch. If our checkout is from the trunk, it does nothing. Then, it does a ?svn diff? and pipes that into patch, which applies the diff to the local working copy for the trunk.
May
08
- meetuplex - At Google, you're Organizing the World's Information.
It's important work because information is power.
You might work on ads or apps (not search), and that's kinda related to Organizing the World's Information.
- Launchpad Translations - Launchpad helps you build a community to translate your project into almost any language. Translators use this simple web interface to contribute translations in a wiki-style of collaboration. Learn more?
- AlternateIdea: Browser-based Developer Tools Come Full Circle - With the release of Opera?s DragonFly, IE 8?s Developer tools, Safari?s/Webkit?s Web Inspector and Drosera; and the Grand Daddy of them all, Firebug ? we?ve now come full circle.
- Plugins - Endless page - Agile Web Development - User opens webpage if he want to see some information. He doesn?t need paging. He doesn?t need to remember page where he have found needed info few months ago.
- Plugins - Configurator - Agile Web Development - Unleash your models and quickly and easily annotate anything. Store booleans, strings, or optionally serialized objects (hashes, custom classes, whatever) without extra migrations.
- Plugins - rails_iui - Agile Web Development - iPhone development for rails, wrapping the iUI toolkit, providing controller methods to respond specially to Mobile Safari browsers, rails helpers to produce iPhone native look and feel elements, and a rake task to download iUI and integrate it with your
- Citebite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages - aste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.
- PC World India: Rackspace Launches CloudFS Storage Service - Rackspace on Monday unveiled a Web-services-based online storage service that will allow software developers to store, backup and access files and content for their applications. The new CloudFS service will be available later this year through the compan
May
06
- Sazbean » Ruby on Rails: My advice - My second piece of advice is to break the Test Once Live habit. This one is a tough sell since people love the time saved in development using Dynamic Languages and loath the trade off spent writing solid tests. Here is the reality, your application will
- UpdateStar - Simplify your software life - UpdateStar is the program that lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software. Whether it be Freeware, Shareware and commercial software products, UpdateStar covers all of your software. UpdateStar knows more than 80.000 software products and
- arya's simple_nav at master ? GitHub - Simple site navigation helper
- universal's rss-irc-bot at master ? GitHub - Autumn is a full-featured framework on top of which IRC bots (called "leaves") can be quickly and easily built. It features a very Ruby-like approach to bot-writing, a complete framework for loading and daemonizing your bots, multiple environment contexts
- Microformats | About microformats - Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
- rolerequirement - Google Code - Clean role-based security for restful_authentication (or acts_as_authenticated)
- 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter - Months after the initial Twitter boom, it?s still strong and kicking. A day rarely goes by that we don?t notice some new Twitter tool in the wild. The ideal place for Twitter-related tools is the web browser, which is apparent from the quick-rising nu
- All of Inflation?s Little Parts - The New York Times - Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories ? like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection ? to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation.
- Kidmondo: an online baby Journal -
May
04
- TweetWheel - Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other! - TweetWheel is a Twitter application that lets you see which of your friends are connected to each other in vibrant colors. Just enter in your username to begin. Depending on how many friends you have, it could take a while to display.
May
03
- Airworks Inflatables - Giant 22 player table football game for Amstel beer - Advertising stunt for Amstel beer, for a promo during the european champions league finals. This table could accomadate 2 full football teams (22 players). The table can be fully dismantled and put into 6 flight cases for transport.
- Hackszine.com: Server-side Google Analytics - When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an image request. This image request sends the right data to Google (not the javascript). When you know what url you should use for the image, you can call t
- Digg - Homer Simspon, drawn in CSS - Homer Simpson, rendered using nothing but CSS. Very very cool.
- Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides | CSS | Smashing Magazine - 5 coding techniques which can dramatically improve management and simplify maintainability of your code.
- Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange - Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called "drops." The service has no email signup and no "accounts." Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of med
- Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community - In a post today called ?Rails Is A Ghetto? he tears into a number of leading Rails developers, the community in general, and a number of startups (and Google).
- 99designs » Need something designed? Crowdsource it. - Need something designed? Crowdsource it to our community of thousands of designers. Choose a winning design from hundreds of concepts created for you in under a week.
- AutoIt v3 - Automate and Script Windows Tasks - For Free! - AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not poss