Microsoft’s Vision of the Future (Parody)

August 24, 2009

..and just because:

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Cheating with Ruby

August 23, 2009

If you are doing just about anything Ruby related these days, you really owe it to yourself to know about a fantastic little RubyGem called cheat. from the fine folks over at Err the Blog.

To get started with cheat:

$ sudo gem install cheat

To use cheat you simply supply the name of whatever you wish to [...]

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Introduction to using vim for Rails development

August 20, 2009

The fine folks over at Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots have put together a screencast on how to go about using vim for Rails development. You are starting to hear more and more about people in the Rails community experimenting with vim lately and with plugins like this it isn’t hard to [...]

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Video: Money and Passion

August 9, 2009

A fireside chat on the topic of money and passion with Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capitaland Paul Graham of Y Combinator. An interesting discussion about how even the best ideas can be worthless without passion.

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Comic Relief for XHTML2 and HTML5

July 30, 2009

Smashing Magazine has a post today featuring one of my favorite web developer centric conics The Brads. Congratulations to Brad Colbow on the exposure at Smashing. Oh yea, and they do a great job of clarifying the whole XHTML2 / HTML5 noise of the last few weeks.

Original post

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Flynn Lives

July 30, 2009

More Tron Legacy goodness on the heals of the previous post. Seems like ComicCon was quite the Tronfest this year and I have to give Disney credit for pulling off a successful viral marketing campaign to generate interest in the new film. Beginning with the selectively distributed Home of Tron coins that ultimately [...]

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First Look at Designs from the new Tron Legacy Movie

July 24, 2009

Greetings Program! 27 years since the debut of the original Tron movie – today for the first time, the world was given its most detailed look yet at some of the designs from the new movie, now officially called Tron Legacy which is currently in production in Canada. The style has no doubt evolved [...]

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SlickMap CSS

July 8, 2009

This is just badass. Site maps tend to fall in and out of vogue but this is something that I’ve wished I had for many years – create beautiful site maps with little more that a series of unordered list tags. I’ve got a handful of projects that this is going to fit into [...]

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A method to sync almost any application between 2 or more Macs

July 7, 2009

I’m thinking this couldn’t possibly be this easy but what started out as a relatively simple task turned into a ah-ha moment tonight. Long story short – I came across a brain dead easy way to synchronize just about any application between multiple Macs using free software. Full disclosure, I haven’t yet looked [...]

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RubyTube – A YouTube for Rubists Arrives

June 30, 2009

RubyTu.be is a community driven collection of Ruby related videos and screencasts.

Aside from getting a clever domain name, the new RubyTu.be site launched with a whopping 320 Ruby videos with more being added all the time. Can you say AppleTV meet RubyTu.be? I have no more excuse that there’s nothing on TV these days.

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