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Jun 26

iBanjo » Blog Archive » Programmer Insecurity - I want to chat about something that I?ve never noticed before, but probably should have. There?s always been a stereotype out there of programmers being nerdy, anti-social people (Q: How do you know when an engineer is outgoing? A: He looks at your sh

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Jun 26

Links for June 27th
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iBanjo » Blog Archive » Programmer Insecurity - I want to chat about something that I?ve never noticed before, but probably should have. There?s always been a stereotype out there of programmers being nerdy, anti-social people (Q: How do you know when an engineer is outgoing? A: He looks at your sh

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Jun 04

Bookmarks for June 3rd through June 4th
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Free Ruby on Rails application profiling for developers - FiveRuns TuneUp - Introducing FiveRuns TuneUp, a new socially networked application profiling tool for Ruby on Rails developers. Designed for rapid application performance analysis in development, both privately or collaboratively with input from the community, FiveRuns Tu
Developer's Guide - AJAX Libraries API - Google Code - The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the
unbound imagination - Rails Plugin: Javascript Dependency Manager - For the past several months, I've been using a helper I wrote to manage my javascript dependencies. All it really does is allow you to specify which javascript files/libraries depend on others (i.e. scriptaculous depends on prototype) and make it easy to
10 ways to keepyour chidlren safe online | Change your thoughts - The internet is a fantastic way for us to communicate, quickly and easily and is questionably responsible for changing our lives over the last 20 years. There is no doubt is can help us gain knowledge, communicate, bank, shop, sell, make money, be creativ
On-Demand Portfolio Optimization & Wealth Management - Macroaxis - Optimize Your Portfolios Instantly
ICONlook.com - the icon search. - IconLook has a large gallery of icons for free download. Search, add tags, and download your desirable size.
Welcome to Skimbit - the social decision-making tool to help research and make decisions online! - When deciding on a holiday house, a car to buy, a wedding venue or a nice restaurant etc, you often need to show some suggestions to your friends and get their feedback or vote.
With Skimbit, you can say goodbye to confusing searches, sending emails with
Pageonce ? the First Personal Internet Assistant: online account management, universal Login and webmail access -
The Lightbox Clones Matrix « planetOzh -
Pinax : Apps - Pinax is a Django project intended to provide a starting point for websites. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
RailsBestPractices in Ruby on Rails - Seasoned Developers Post Best Practices Here
GanttProject: Home - GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool.
Project Management Software - ProWorkflow - An Online Web Based Project Management, Task and Time Tracking Solution - ProWorkflow, is a Project Task and Time Tracking Solution, designed to increase business efficiency, and individual accountability.
ProWorkflow allows you to manage projects online, automate processes, and access your organization's information anytime.
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May 18

Links for May 18th
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skwpspace ? Useful git commands and quirks - Things I?ve learned from my first git experiences. First of all, git is inconsistent as hell. Every command has its own quirks and syntax, so I?m attempting to catalog some of them here. We?ve been using git svn at Planypus as a way to maintain loca
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BitNami :: HowTo: Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug - After following these steps you should have an Aptana RadRails intstalltion, which RubyStack?s Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick and other libraries, and provides visual debugging.
Do we really need Controller and View tests? - Don?t overload controllers with responsibilities. Put logic in your models instead. This approach is usually called ?skinny controller / fad model? (Jamis Buck wrote about it here and here, Courtenay of caboo.se also wrote an article).
eigenclass - rcov: code coverage for Ruby - rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing overall test coverage of target code. It features:
* fast execution: 20-300 times faster than previous tools
* multiple analysis modes: standard, bogo-profile, "intentional te
Flying Machine Studios » Blog Archive » Announcing Palmist - # Make it easy to work on one request at a time
# Highlight duplicate queries
# Show the time each query takes and total db time
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Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor - a Ruby regular expression editor
Balls: Rotopault Kinetic Sculpture Is Mezmerizing - About 30 seconds after I clicked play on this video of Brad Litwin's latest kinetic sculpture, Rotopault, I said "cool" and flicked my mouse to close the window. And then I just kept watching. It does the same thing over and over again: Launches a ball as
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
News: AirFox Live Helicopter Streams Traffic, Utter Chaos - The Chicago Fox affiliate WFLD has embraced a touch of Justin.tv with their new AirFox Live helicopter feed. Viewers can now visit the AirFox website and view Google Maps GPS tracking of the chopper, along with a real-time video feed sharing whatever it s

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May 14

Links for May 14th
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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 03

Links for May 3rd
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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).

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Apr 15

Bookmarks for April 14th through April 15th
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phatfusion : googleDrive - drive around google maps.
ivan krsti? · code culture » Quote, unquote - Photo: corkboard closeup, sixth floor of Soda Hall, University of California at Berkeley.
Gems On Rails - Link or freeze RubyGems into your rails apps, instead of just plugins. This allows you to ?vendor everything? ? pushing all dependent gems into your rails app thus ensuring your application will be guaranteed to work when deployed. Your application
Rail Spikes: Working with others: Best practices for Rails teams - Working with others: Best practices for Rails teams
Dell Coupons, HP Coupons, Overstock Coupon, Dell Coupon - BradsDeals - BradsDeals, published by Brad Wilson, finds and writes about online shopping deals, online coupons and codes and in-store printable coupons.

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