October 2007
69 posts
Google Announces the OpenSocial API →
Facebook is like the corner pub. →
RailsConf 2008 Call for Participation →
Hmmm… I think I’m going to go for it this year…
Newbreak Cafe
Great view and consistently the best americanos I’ve ever had.
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I think writing copy on web applications should be like telling a story. Now time to imbibe some caffeine and put that theory to the test.
taoyue.com: Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men →
God Almighty, in fashioning his most useful men, often works slowly with quite common stuff… most of His better grade line is ordinary in everything except the extra effort, and dogged determination, which have given it a finer texture and finish. A good and humbling lesson. I would do well to acquire that dogged determination.
Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka” →
How to be a radical in suburbia →
What's New in Edge Rails: Fixtures Just Got a... →
“Man. Prepositions.”
– Jessica Small
The Cake is a Lie →
Aperture Science: We do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us—except the ones who are dead.
Mac OS X 10.5 →
Only $109 on Amazon.
“Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to...”
– Jim Collins, Good to Great
Taskpaper →
A very simple and surprisingly powerful task tracker. I’m giving this a try and think it could be on to something.
Partial list of homes destroyed in San Diego fires →
DOPPLR →
A pretty sweet social network tool for planning travel and keeping track of where your friends are. It’s still in closed beta but if you want an invite just let me know :-)
Danielle: ADFDSAF
Danielle: oops sorry
Danielle: ha
Nick: you
Nick: are awesome
Danielle: you are
Danielle: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gmail: What Gmail IMAP Means for You (and Your... →
ActiveResource and Testing →
How to best test your ActiveResource models is an open question right now, as far as I can tell. Sweet, guess I’d better take notes.
SD County Fires on KPBS →
Tons of details and an awesome Google map. Don’t miss KPBS News on Twitter.
Plaxo Launches Pulse Widget →
Track what’s going on in multiple different social networks, plus links to a few other sites that are doing similar stuff.
How opinionated companies get customers to live... →
Keeping things focused on simplicity and excellence requires communication, trust, and a willingness to take risks and upset people.
“Cover me with a red sky tonight / The promise of a better day to come…”
– Brandon Heath - Red Sky
Clients, Cubicles, and the Kingdom - part two →
More useful insight from Brian on living the daily life for Jesus.
Estimates: Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on... →
Assuming 1.2 million downloads with an average price of $5–8 per album.
Bernie's Better Beginner's Guide to Photography →
For Brian and his sweet new DSLR.
Video: Quick and dirty demo of mywhurls.com →
Narrated by yours truly. A little bit like getting dressed in public.
Mac OS X: Prepare Your Mac for Leopard →
Simpler than dirt: RESTful Dynamic CSS →
Now why didn’t I think of this? So many ways cool to apply this technique — I could see using an index.css.erb as a way to keep CSS separate and dynamic. Or a really simple style controller that offers customizable stylesheets through an admin interface.
“Until you’ve actually thrown the ball at the wall, you don’t know how it’ll...”
– Ask 37signals: What about research, interviews, and documentation?
Re-decentralizing politics
What if our voting age requirements were tweaked a little? Perhaps we lower the age requirements for local and state elections, or even raise the age requirement for federal elections. What would the ramifications of such a change be? Would it help teach involvement in the political process, and, over time, decentralize the focus?
10 Reasons to Learn Ruby →
#3 — You won’t ever use a semicolon again. So true, and a source of many new Javascript errors.
James Duncan Davidson – More on the Best Deal in... →
Lenses are part of the equation for expressing yourself photographically. You should first find out what kind of photography interests you and then build up the good equipment to support that.
Video: Family Guy Explains The Death Star Flaw →
“Lord, beer me strength.”
– Jim Halpert
My new RSS feed location →
If you’re reading this on a feed reader, first of all, good on ya! Second of all, I’m now running my feed through Feed Burner, so check out the link and update accordingly.
How to create a great website →
You know, in case you’re in the market.
RIAA Hits a Sour Note With Its File-Sharing Witch... →
Thanks to technology bands are discovering that they can, in effect, become their own publishers, cut out the middleman and go directly to their audiences.
“There is love because, love in order to, love for the purpose of, and then there...”
– Rob Bell
Two tips for updating to Rails 2.0
Check your routes for nested resources — :name_prefix isn’t blank by default anymore. Now it’s set to the singular of the parent resource. You can explicitly make that blank, use some find-and-replace regex-fu to fix your url helpers, and even get rid of url helpers altogether from your link_tos and form_fors.
Not necessarily essential, but it’s nice to replace the old rhtml...
Radiohead - In Rainbows →
Digging their entrepreneurship. And the music’s good, too, natch. I think we’re just about at the tipping point of bands dropping their labels and interacting directly with their fans.
Hands on MySQL Backup & Migration →
All sorts of MySQL backup tools and techniques. A good overview of online vs. offline and data dumps vs. raw. It even dips a toe into remote backups. Worth a bookmark.
Staying Sane →
amongst all the tumult. Some energy channeled into observations on life.