Links & notes for this month

• • Raimo: the Ruby AIM bot -- Once I've got this all up and running... it's time to exploit the Basecamp API for fun and profit! | aim chatbot ruby
  • International Components for Ruby -- | i18n l10n programming ruby
  • Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development -- | agile html methodology prototyping rapid webdev xhtml
  • The ten commandments of bilingual blogging -- | bilingual i18n l10n publishing
• Safari crashed. Again. With lots of tabs open. And I can't remember half of them. I hate you, Safari. | Tags: crap, personal, safari
• • [Workshop] What video games do to us... and other things -- | development education games society
  • PowerPoint Presentation - Putting the Fun in Functional -- Amy Jo Kim's awesome talk from Etech. It's not just about applying game design to mobile services - it's about applying game design to everything you build for the web. It raised a lot of good points, and crystallised a lot of others. Worth a look. | application design etech games ludic methodology presentation services
  • Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? -- Public - super-public - hyperpublic. Lots of interesting stuff in this essay from danah. Memo to self: it's all about the ablative case. | danahboyd essay friendster glocalization myspace public socialsoftware superpublics
• • Time to stop obsessing about the infrastructure -- The network is not about the applications. The network is about the glue. (I will be repeating this mantra in future). | glue infrastructure network systems
• • Purse Lip Square Jaw: Internet of things: working bibliography -- I may eventually get around to checking some of this lot out. I hope so, anyhow... | blobjects fabjects internetofthings jargon spimes
• "Uh, well everything manifests itself in processes of three. Proton, neutron, electron. Sun, earth, moon. Masculine, feminine... child." The Channel 4 website reviews the DVD of Revolver by listening to the commentary. Funny. | Tags: channel4, film, funny, review, revolver
• • Yahoo! Weather -- Y!DN Weather forecasts by location, through API. I'm trying the "Weather forecasts" challenge in Rubyquiz (flexing muscles, etcetera) and it seems ilke a good place to start. | api weather webservice xml
  • Creating Passionate Users: Web 2.0 is like Group Therapy -- Really rather funny. (From Kathy Sierra) | funny humour web20
• • inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for 'NetNewsWire 2.1: Sorting by Attention' -- Impressive; NNW 2.1 can sort feeds by the attention you pay them. This is the real impact of the attention economy - not securitizing it, not monetizing it, just using attention as a resource like anything else, and making your tools better as a result | attention macosx rss software ui
  • vogon poetry: ETech 2006 Session: Scaling Fast and Cheap -- Nice write-up of Cal's tutorial | development flickr mysql php scaling software
  • .c( whytheluckystiff )o. -- A Quick Guide to SQLite and Ruby -- Why on SQLite and Ruby. | database programming ruby sqlite
  • Textism: Twenty Faces -- 20 book-weight faces; a useful reference | design fonts type typography
• • Coping with Scoping -- or: namespaces for numpties. Because whilst I can tell that PHPs "all functions in one big namespace" is wrong, I don't know why. This helps. | namespaces perl programming
  • How to use SQLite with Ruby On Rails -- For all those times when a real database is overkill | database development programming rails ruby rubyonrails sqlite
• • under odysseus -- A weblog being kept during the Odyssey. Funny. | blog funny homer literature
  • Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts -- Not only tasteful, but also (by and large) in a selection of different weights. | design fonts free typography