• 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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May 14
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  • 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
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May 12
Links for May 12th
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  • 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
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