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Jun 17

When To Use Email & When Not To - Stepcase Lifehack - Sometimes email isn?t the right communication tool. Either you?re trying to get too much information from someone - or too many people - or you?re conveying too much information.
30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples - Six Revisions - In this article, I?ve pieced together 30 excellent CSS techniques and examples that showcases the capabilities and robustness of CSS. You?ll see a variety of techniques such as image galleries, drop shadows, scalable buttons, menus, and more - all usi

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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.
persistent.info: Smart Google Reader Subscribe Button -

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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
# Link to EXPLAIN
# List general MySQL optimization tips
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 09

Bookmarks for May 8th through May 9th
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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.

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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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May 02

Bookmarks for May 2nd from 06:44 to 06:56
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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

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Apr 16

Bookmarks for April 15th through April 16th
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Onlinephototool.com: online image and photo editor - On Onlinephototool.com you can edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. If you want to save your images online you need to register. Resize, crop, add text, sharpen, rotate, flip, colour balance, saturation, levels, paint, add icons, sepi
W3Counter - Website Analytics, Realtime Web Stats and Web Counter - You shouldn't need training to figure out your web stats program. W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who's your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.
grassyknoll - Google Code - GrassyKnoll is a search engine written in Python.
11 Odd but Simple Ways to Improve Your Health - Instead of just getting by, this list will get you started with some uncommon ways that you can help you go above and beyond to create total health.
Free Software Oasis: Unhider - Small utility to hide or show any window on your desktop. Sometimes after crashing Windows Explorer we cannot get access to our programs that was minimized to system tray. This utility can help you to find and unhide any hidden window.
Railscheck project home page - Railscheck - The semi-static Q/A verification tool for your Ruby on Rails projects This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that
About Big Sister - # monitor networked systems # provide a simple real-time view of the current network status # notify you when your systems are becoming critical # generate a history of status changes # log and display a variety of system performance data
Welcome | AppDrop - A proof-of-concept, to show that Google's App Engine platform can be ported to other hosts. Unlike Google's project, we make no claims to be able to scale beyond a small amount of traffic. We reserve the right to shut the whole thing down at any time.
Confreaks: Expert Recording and Networking Services - Have you ever attended a conference and thought, "This is great! I wish I could watch it again later."? Have you ever noticed that most technical conferences seem to completely overload the networking capacity of the venue? So have we!

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