- Displaying a content_for inplace — A nice trick for wrangling content_for, something I’m doing a lot of at work at the moment.
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- YouTube – i’m blogging — I WANT YOU ON THE PHONE BUT I ALSO WANT YOU BLOGGING
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- BLDGBLOG: War/Photography: An Interview with Simon Norfolk — "Cologne was built by Charlemagne – but Cologne has the shape that it does today because of the abilities and non-abilities of a Lancaster Bomber." Phenomenal interview. Worth savouring every word.
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- Headdress for OS X — Headdress helps you run multiple Apache vhosts with its simple graphical interface
Tagged as: apache apple macosx osx utility server development - anti-mega: sociology as free jazz — "the strength of social contact between people cannot be measured by frequency or intensity; a better measure is the number of communication channels used by people" – I like Chris’ ideas, but need to think a bit harder on them.
Tagged as: communication social society design sociology dunbar - Letterbox: Widescreen Plugin for Mail.app | aaron.harnly.net | Aaron — Might come in handy should I ever get one of them widescreen notebooks.
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- The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo’s Wii — "The classic controller was something […] gamers had become comfortable with. It had many important elements. But it also had come to dictate a lot of what went into games… Creativity was being stifled, and the range of games was narrowing."
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- Stupid htaccess Tricks « Perishable Press — Fantastic collection of stuff to do with your .htaccess file, not just copied+pasted, but explained well, too.
Tagged as: htaccess apache security rewrite mod_rewrite urls - Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags — Read it a long while ago, but great to come back to – a fantastic piece of Clay Shirky on fuzzy classifications.
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- The Seven Core Practices of Agile Work (Agile Advice) — Agile Work consists of seven core practices. These practices form a solid starting point for any person, team or community that wishes to follow the Middle Way to Excellence.
Tagged as: agile management development process xp scrum - Dirt simple .rcss templates — Dirt simple indeed. More importantly, it actually serves the CSS as text/css , which is usually the kicker for me.
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- Re: Case statements and ERB — Jamis Buck explains how to use case statements in ERB. Useful, given I’d just assumed it wasn’t possible.
Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails erb - Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1 — No ActiveResource, but still some interesting patches to the RESTful behaviour in responds_to. Also… the beginnings of multibyte UTF8 support, which is great.
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- iStat nano — Tiny system-monitoring widget for OSX’s dashboard
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- Paintball Minigun page — "This page features a paintball minigun that I am developing…" Wow.
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