Links & notes for this month

• • Bleak_house
    "A library for finding memory leaks." - with solid Rails integration and, apparently, graphs by Gruff.
    (tags: ruby rails profiling analysis memory)
  • RussellBeattie.com - Lego Rocks (Redux)
    Wow. Just wow. Phenomenal print adverts for Lego, that manage to sum up the brand so well.
    (tags: advertising branding graphicdesign lego)
• • Clutter Free [ Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net ]
    "Clutter Free is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use."
    (tags: wordpress plugin interface customisation)
  • Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress – Userscripts.org
    Greasmonkey script that "reskins the Akismet spambox page for WordPress admins". Might make things a bit better, I guess...
    (tags: wordpress plugin greasemonkey akismet ui)
  • WP Tiger Administration v3.0 // Ordered List by Steve Smith
    A new version of the popular admin reskin for Wordpress.
    (tags: wordpress plugin admin skin theme customisation)
  • WordPress 2.3: Canonical URLs « Mark on WordPress
    A detailed explanation of the Wordpress 2.3 implementation of resolving to a single canonical URL.
    (tags: wordpress seo url blogging)
  • Fray: Busted! True stories of getting caught in the act.
    "Fray is being reborn as a quarterly printed book, and we need your help." A great move from Derek Powazek
    (tags: fray writing creativity magazine storytelling book publishing)
  • Jim Barraud
    I like the look of this blog - content big, small, whatever, familiar aesthetic, and some lovely design touches. Giving me ideas for future overhauls (after the impending one)...
    (tags: blog design)
• • as days pass by » Blog Archive » DOMContentLoaded for IE, Safari, everything, without document.write
    "it should be possible to combine the existing Safari method, Opera and Mozilla’s DOMContentLoaded support, and Hedger’s IE approach into a short bit of boilerplate code that can be dropped into your standalone script." Nice!
    (tags: javascript programming development dom scripting ie)
• • Preoccupations: Teaching
    "...you have to like children... If you do not, you will never be able to treat them as individuals... the test of whether you enjoy children's company is whether you find them fun." David quoting Mike Baker. Fab.
    (tags: teaching education children adult)
• • A Critic at Large: Candid Camera: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
    "With a Leica, all you hear is the shutter, which is the quietest on the market. The result—and this may be the most seductive reason for the Leica cult—is that a photograph sounds like a kiss." Wonderful New Yorker piece on the cult of Leica.
    (tags: photography camera leica culture cult product)
• • Twittercal — tweet your google calendar
    Twittercal is "a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar". Very nice!
    (tags: twitter service api calendar google)
• • Life on Rails » Ruby, rails and other technological travels
    "I figured it’s best just to tell you why netbeans’ rails support is so creamingly good". I'm not really an IDE guy, but netbeans does sound quite impressive. Not sure it'll drag me away from Textmate, though.
    (tags: netbeans rails rubyonrails ruby ide development editor)
  • Yahoo! Developer Network - Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Python
    This will come in handy, I think.
    (tags: python api authentication rest yahoo webservices)
  • Yahoo! Developer Network - Parse XML using Python
    "If the API you are using does not yet offer JSON output you can take advantage of Python's excellent XML support." Going to need this too, I think
    (tags: xml parsing python development programming)
• • The Unarchiver
    The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X
    (tags: mac software osx compression freeware zip)
  • We Can Fix That with Data
    "metrics, data management, and usability for online games" - awesome blog discovery of the day. Just looks fab. Insta-subscribe!
    (tags: blog games play metrics data mmorpg usability)
  • Nick Sweeney · searching for the one-eyed jesus
    "...it sums up the particular strain of globollocks in Monocle that both entices and infuriates, like a coke-fiend friend" - great post from Nick Sweeney on Monocle and cultures of their own creation
    (tags: globalism journalism publishing)
• • Jacknife Posters | Home
    Beautiful, traditional screenprinted posters, as seen at End of the Road. Want to get my hands on some of these.
    (tags: posters design screenprint music)
  • Software is (not) like that
    "We've been using the same tired metaphors for decades and they are not serving us well. What there was to learn from them was absorbed long ago." Eric Evans debunks metaphors for development.
    (tags: architecture development programming software design)
  • Universal Principles of Design. UPOD: online addendum
    As recommended no the ixda-discuss list.
    (tags: design interaction reference book)
  • Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times
    "...indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users..." - you don't say?
    (tags: paywall business advertising online newmedia newspaper newyorktimes publishing journalism)
  • Testing Controllers with rspec
    Just what I needed right now. This is a verbose approach, but it has the kind of granularity I like.
    (tags: testing rspec rails rubyonrails bdd controller mvc)
• • Welcome to the Flume
    This is going to be huge.
    (tags: web2.0 application website social software flume)