Links & notes for this month

• • Ruby Programming Language Enables Concise Network Programming -- Interesting, simple explanation of TCP/IP and API design in Ruby | http programming tcpip tutorial webservices
• • UK5 Organics - Organic Food Home Delivery to London -- Ooh - they deliver near me. And in the mornings, too. Exciting stuff. | delivery food organic
• • How do I take notes on big books? | Ask MetaFilter -- | methodology notation notetaking research work
  • Lost Garden - genre addiction -- Daniel Cook on genre addiction, and the expectationgs that come with it | design games
• • IGN: Reggie Talks Nintendo's Future -- Full transcript of Reggie Fils-Aime's speech at TGS 2005. Great statistics. | controllers demographic games nintendo statistics
  • Lost Garden: Idly gathered game industry statistics of doom -- Useful statistics, and the Nolan Bushell link is great. | demographics games play statistics
  • Terra Nova: The Horde is Evil -- The connotations of morality that are attached to your MMORPG avatar | alignment culture gaming morality
• • D.I.Y. Design It Yourself -- Supports the book of the same name. Looks fun. | design
• • Php Object Generator (v1.5 rev3) - Open Source Object Relational Mapping PHP Code Generator -- Quite nice. Generates data objects for PHP. It's not quite ActiveRecord, and the syntax of PHP ( namely "array(array("foo"=>"bar"))" ) gets in the way a bit, but it's not bad. | database orm php webdevelopment
• • who's online? -- Displaying who's online in your rails app through the sessions database. | howto ruby rubyonrails sessions
  • Mistaeks I Hav Made: Scrapheap Challenge at OOPSLA 2005 -- Hurrah for reusable components. Good challenges, and good excuses to play with what's out there. Whole-of-web as CPAN. | design development programming xp
  • Change It Up! - Boxes and Arrows -- | design ui ux webdesign
  • Lightbox JS -- Nice image-overlay javascript | javascript photography photos webdesign
• • Who said size is not important? -- Keeping Rails logfile sizes down | rails rubyonrails tip
  • Sebastian Kanthak - FileColumn - easy handling of file uploads in Rails -- Nice little rails plugin for making file uploads easy | programming rails rubyonrails webdev
• • Code Snippets: Atom rxml template [ruby] [rails] [rss] [xml] [atom] [blinksale] -- Probably will come in handy | atom rails rubyonrails template xml
  • Learn Python in 10 minutes | Poromenos' Stuff -- | guide howto programming python
• • Apples To Oranges Blog - Using CSS to create simple bar graphs -- Lovely - especially the simpler ones. Would be great in Project Brahe, a little bit of dynamic magic... | css design graphing webdesign
  • pasta and vinegar � Game controller trick for Katamari Damacy -- Ahehe. It's Track and Field all over again! (But seriously: when you're given an interface, the instinct is to subvert it, hack it, and what better way than by modifiying the hardware? It's the low-tech version of an autofire button) | cheat games hack interface joypad