Links & notes for this month

• • The Web Is a Pipe -- I decided to make my presentation a call to action to, once and for all, put a big fat finger in FastCGI’s eye and move on. | apache deployment fastcgi fcgi lighttpd mongrel rails ruby rubyonrails
• • Don't say CRUD say FUC'D. -- Now you’ve got a very useful part of your domain model – the hint was that you were writing some thing that wasn’t CRUD – you needed a new noun instead of a non-standard verb. | crud development rails ruby software
• • The Power of the Marginal -- The big media companies shouldn't worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead. | broadcast essay innovation keynote media presentation
  • Arduino - HomePage -- Nice. A tiny little USB I/O board for about twenty-thirty quid. It works with Macs, it works with Processing and Wiring, and it comes from Italy. Probably my way into experimenting with physical interface fun. Time to buy a soldering iron... | hardware io physical processing sensor wiring
• • Ron Bigelow's Photography Articles -- It was here I learned to use Unsharp Mask, and here I learned to stop using it (I'm using High-pass Sharpening, ever since Ben mentioned it). He writes really well, though, and gave the best explanation of USM I've ever read, so I must dive into his other | photography reference technique
  • Synergy -- Virtual cross-platform KVM. Very, very, sweet (if it works)... | crossplatform desktop kvm sharing virtual vnc
  • Michael Kenna Photography - Hokkaido, 2004 -- | blackandwhite japan photography
• • What does it take to be a dad? | Ask MetaFilter -- Nice - and meaty - father's day thread from Ask MeFi | askmetafilter fatherhood guidance ideals maxims parenting
  • Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatar -- Implementation instructions for Wordpress. Usefully generic, for once. | gravatar plugin wordpress
• • InVisible - Ruby on Rails Reference 1.1.2 -- Another condensed reference is always useful... | rails reference ruby rubyonrails
  • Mongrel: Home -- ...because the Mongrel URL is too hard to find. (Update: finally got this installed. Woah, that's *fast*) | mongrel ruby webserver
  • InfoQ - A look at common performance problems in Rails -- | caching development performance rails ruby rubyonrails scaling
  • QuirksBlog: Ajax use patterns -- | ajax javascript patterns programming
• • Luke Redpath » Blog Archive » Introducing Unobtrusive Javascript for Rails -- Ugh! Finally someone heads towards a solution for making the Rails Javascript helpers less horrendous. What they do is great; how they do it is ugly. This is good. | dom javascript plugin rails ruby rubyonrails
• • Visor Console [Macintoshian Achaia] -- Ugh! Linked in this thread... is a terminal hack for OSX that makes your console drop down *like a console in Quake3*. Sehr cool - and I'm very tempted by it... | console osx quake3 shell terminal
  • Caching with Ruby on Rails -- Mmn. Fragment caching. I knew I didn't want page/controller caching, was dreading this... and it all looks really rather doable. Sorted! | cache caching performance rails ruby rubyonrailes scaling
  • frieze - the art of war -- "The IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux." - Fascinating article on why Isra | israel palestine politics psychology research warfare
• • Sitening Blog » Blog Archive » How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently -- I probably ought to get a copy of SuperDuper. It looks very good. | backup mac security
• • moddular | javascript loop test -- Always useful to know: how long loops take in different browsers Javascript interpretations. | code javascript metrics programming