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Think helps you to selectively focus on one application at once. Not sure I’d use it all the time, but it works pretty well.
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Like Pyro for Basecamp: a product-specific client as a browser.
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“GreaseKit is successor of Creammonkey. This software adds Greasemonkey-like user scripting to Safari, Mailplane, Diet Pibb.app and all WebKit applications.” Looks good.
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“Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact- list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more.” It’s a bit like Mutt-meets-Gmail.
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Mailtrap helps you test ActionMailer: “Yesterday I mocked up the simplest, dumbest, Ruby SMTP server you can imagine. It speaks just enough SMTP to allow ActionMailer to make a connection and send it a message.”
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Rex Sorgatz on his essay in Wired, where he suggests that “gaming has become the prevailing narrative of our time.”
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“Why would I ever want to use Facebook as the UI for blogs? One simple reason: people as tags, tags as people.”
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“A man with only a PictoChat session has to convince the authorities that a major international incident is unfolding. Spies, diplomats, terrorists, SAS-style rescues. And a DS in almost every shot.” Any way you look at it: genius!
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“Dear Lazyweb, and also a certain you-know-who-you-are who should certainly know better by now, I am here to tell you about backups. It’s very simple.”
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Vitruvius is most famous for asserting in his book De architectura that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas – that is, it must be strong or durable, useful, and beautiful.
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“SOAP Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you access and debug WSDL & SOAP-based Web Services from the comfort of your desktop.” Yuck, but might be useful.
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Nicolas Nova on how to integrate pervasive gaming into the environment a little better.
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Forgotten how wonderful(ly dreadful) this collection of interaction cock-ups from Lotus Notes was. Bits of it are just painful.
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“If you want someone to fail, you want them to fail fast, before they spend a lot of money… [Miyamoto] would just say, ‘Find the fun, and I’ll be back in three months to take a look at what you have.'” Good advice.
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Bundle for TextMate that lets it edit (and use) the Taskpapers file format. Nice, simple. Might be effective, but there’s always that problem of distribution… so I might still be in Backpack for time being…
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“The default RSpec syntax is good, but it can’t be everything to everyone. If you’re not writing matchers, you’re missing out on the full potential of RSpec.”
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Simon does a nice big tutorial on writing bookmarklets. Which happens to be exactly what I need right now…
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“…I think the trick of Portal is that the AI NPC is really the player. The NPC addresses the PC in the same patronizing tone I address characters I control when they… slide off the platform I tried to land them on.”
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“It’s amazing how deeply embedded in our collective consciousness is the notion of the lethally impersonal corporation with a dead marketing voice.”
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“Lotus Notes, an application whose awkward integration of multiple feature sets I’ve only ever heard spoken about with violent disgust, promotes itself as freakish software. This is a campaign that can only make sense in the … world of enterprise soft
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“it’s the high price tags that invariably command a squadron of Suits whipping out their Powerpoint presentations and flying all over the place. That’s expensive, and customers are tired of it.”
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Can’t believe I’ve not added Apache vhosts sooner. So anyway, here’s a neat reminder of how to do this.
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Codeignitier’s interactions with databases explained – might fix some problems I ran into with it this morning…
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“I wrote a tiny jQuery extension that logs the current jQuery selection to the firebug console… The nice thing about logging to firebug is that each node becomes clickable in the console, so you can immediately see the context.” Excellent!
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Quartz Composer Samples – with .mov and source files as well.
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““Demeter’s Revenge” is a simple extension to ActiveRecord, written as a Rails plugin that creates a collection of Demeter-friendly methods for your has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many associations.”
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Ingenious home-made ringlight for macro work.
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“The Unit Command Climate Assessment and Survey System (UCCASS) (pronounced yoo-kas) is a PHP based survey script that allows you to create online surveys.” And it looks like a nice alternative to PHPESP…
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“A compilation of seven spectacular and inspiration JavaScript projects, presented in full color and written by a renowned group of industry leaders.” Blimey, that’s a lineup.
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“Better Rails Code through …ActiveRecords with no public methods that have side-effects–other than Create, Update, and Destroy (CUD).” Ooh. This could be exactly what I need. Certainly worth a closer look, anyhow.
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“CCMenu displays the project status of CruiseControl continuous integration servers as an item in the Mac OS X menu bar.” And it integrates with Growl.
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“Cruciforum is a very simple web forum, designed to make it really easy to add a discussion forum to a website.” Rather fun: no accounts, no administration, all static HTML, and all from one file. Feels entertainingly old-school.
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“If we call ourselves professionals, we owe it to our clients, their clients, and ourselves, to do our job properly. A chef must care about health, a builder must care about safety, and we must care about accessibility.”
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There’s an achievement in HL2:Episode 2 which involves carrying a little gnome through the entire game and doing a thing with him. A lovely writeup here.
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“This free, open source LAMP production stack for RedHat Enterprise Edition, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu will allow users to quickly put Rails applications on production servers.”
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Pretty much true, all of it. One day, I’ll experience this. One day.