- danwebb.net – The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications — A very practical guide to rigging up the basics of OpenID in Rails.
Tagged as: rubyonrails ruby rails openid authentication programming tutorial howto - Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: A Better Way to Organize Your Helpers — Sod the improvement, the original suggestion is something I’d never thought of. Bye bye, overcrowded application_helper.rb …
Tagged as: rails helpers rubyonrails - FoxySofts – Another World — Another World GBA port, ROM image – completely free, and apparently "official"…
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- Web 2.0 Technologies: GeoKit: a plugin for location-based Rails apps — Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package.
Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails maps geo geocoding data plugin - How to back up and restore your important Mac OS X 10.4 files — …including a nice detailed section on Mail.app. I’m going to need that very, very soon.
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- Mocha Quickstart — A quick guide to getting started with Mocha – the Ruby library for mocking objects in tests.
Tagged as: mocha testing mock rails ruby rubyonrails tdd - Mike Clark’s Weblog – Attachment Fu — Mike Clark runs over the basics of RIck Olson’s attachment_fu plugin. A nice abstraction – will come in handy, for sure.
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- mactactic – buying guide & replacement estimates – current mac release summary — Highly useful: analyses when an Apple model was last replaced, and tells you if it’s a good time to buy one. Fortunately for what I’m looking for, it’s "still good value"…
Tagged as: mac apple hardware computer shopping reference - NoLimits Roller Coaster Simulation – The Ultimate Roller Coasters Simulator for PC and Mac — NoLimits is a rollercoaster simulator. It looks awfully fun – especially the track designer
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- err.the_blog.find_by_title(‘I Will Paginate’) — "Your views will paginate, the code says so". Better pagination for Rails, wrapped up as a plugin
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- The Sound of Interaction Design (Schulze & Webb) — This presentation is on how a new generation wants social, creative, networked products, and how design can help not by identifying tasks to be productively performed, but experiences to be deepened and made fun. S&W on fine, fine form.
Tagged as: interaction product design presentation talk web media future - Tom Hume: LIFT07: Embracing the real world’s messiness, Fabien Girardin — ‘"Seamful design" seeks to reveal the limits, boundaries and uncertainties of ubicomp: reveals the seams.’ Notes on what sounds like a fascinating talk from LIFT07
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- | insert credit | feature | the insercredit.com fukubukuro 2006: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION — It’s the 2006 Tim Rogers fukubukuro. Which translates as: 80,000 words of rambling on games. That said, some of it’s very good – the "epic" section on Gears of War, amongst other things, is most perceptive.
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Tagged as: design development software product management - Home – World Press Photo — The 2007 contest winners are now up. They’re very impressive.
Tagged as: photography journalism photojournalism news society - Mountain Goat Software – Selecting the Right Iteration Length for Your Software Development Process – Agile Development Training and Consulting — "the length of time that priorities can go unchanged is a factor in selecting the iteration length."
Tagged as: agile development management software - Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns…to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap – Gizmodo — Stop buying broken products and then shrugging your shoulders when it doesn’t do what it is supposed to. Stop buying products that serve any other master than you. Use older stuff that works. Make it yourself.
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- Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Teamwork — UK style — All too true. Although, let’s face it, it may as well be "developers" in the hole.
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- Ryan’s Scraps: Testing Rails Controllers with Nested Parameters — Because you’re passing in a mock representation of the real HTTP parameters, you don’t want to use the string versions of the parameters but actually set the parameter hash directly. Duh. So, when your controller is expecting a nested hash keyed off t
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- Coding Horror: Dysfunctional Specifications — ‘Functional specifications document are "yes documents." They’re political. They’re all about getting to "yes" and we think the goal up front should be getting to "no."’ …which ties nicely into "make mistakes early and often".
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