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Phusion Passenger™ — a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack — makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as DRY.
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Dave Hermansen bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it. He then redesigned then sold it for $173,000.
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Teen social network myYearbook is growing fast and it just raised $13M, but is it more than a teen site?
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A network engineer would say this was a situation of “same bandwidth, lower latency” and then probably launch into a story about how the post office, mailing millions of DVDs around the world every day, has the highest bandwidth of any network on earth
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This document specifies Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices. The principal objective is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from such devices.
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I have worked on many applications that require breadcrumbs. Every time, one of the developers has built a quick custom solution. Finally, I decided that we needed a complete solution that we could easily add to future projects, and thus Crummy was born.
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Compare Curriculums! Have you ever wondered what people from Ivy League and highly selective universities know that you don’t? Now you can see everything they have learned! Here you can browse the required reading for classes at many known universities.
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discusses approaches entrepreneurs can use to “de-risk” their business plan, idea, service, or product before raising substantial sums of money (e.g, VC investment).
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It’s Hard To Escape From the Testing Value Spike
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Sam Pullara’s Yuil search product. hacked together search engine that looks like Cuil using Yahoo’s BOSS offering
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HourTown makes it easy for customers to connect with your business and schedule an appointment online. It helps manage your schedule and notifies you when someone schedules an appointment. There’s nothing to install and works on any computer.
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Flexcover is a code coverage tool for Flex, AIR and AS3. It incorporates a modified version of the AS3 compiler which inserts extra function calls in the code within the SWF or SWC output file
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ILOG Elixir gives developers a rich collection of innovative and interactive data display components. It includes ready-to-use schedule displays, map displays, dials, gauges, 3D and radar charts, a treemap chart and organization charts.
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# AIM Integration. Just click on a story, and choose which of your buddies to send it to.
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Every web service related gem I’ve written makes requests and parses responses into ruby objects. So first let’s start with requests. The request methods that you make the most use of are get and post, with put and delete occasionally sliding in.
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the documentation generation tool YARD, which allows to add metadata to Ruby documentation, among other features. YARD is designed to play well with RDoc formatted doc strings, but allows to use different markup notations.
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The Home of the Internet-enabled Home. We are an Open Community in the Home Automation and Domotics space. We believe an Open Source approach can revolutionize the way people create, install, and maintain software in the industry
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TrustSaas.com is an uptime monitoring and alerting service
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4b. How much do you have to charge to earn a profit?
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Just send a mail to send@webtomail.co.cc with the URL* of the desired web-page as subject.
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Our mission with ØMQ (“ZeroMQ”) is to build the fastest messaging ever. The way to get performance is to optimise the whole software and hardware stack together. So, we are developing ØMQ closely with major hardware firms.
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Instant Messaging with Instant Translation
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Monitor110 began with a decent enough idea: pull together the newest, most relevant information online to help institutional investors. Unfortunately, the company now serves as a cautionary tale of what not to do, having burned through the $20 million
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ActivePresenter is an ultra-simple presenter base class that is designed to wrap ActiveRecord models (and, potentially, others that act like them). Just like an ActiveRecord, except that it works with multiple models at the same time.
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MySQL Stored Procedures instruction manual
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1 free “Obama ’08″ sticker (even the shipping’s free).
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Run all your production applications at near-native performance on VMware’s next-generation OS-independent hypervisor, now available for free. VMware ESXi has the same functionality and performance as VMware ESX but with a 32 MB disk footprint.
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As my clients increasingly ask for WordPress implementation, learning PHP has become a requirement. I’m not alone in this endeavor. For those in the same boat, why not take the time and learn with me?
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The spartan dating website draws in over $10 million per year from advertising, equaling out to around $1 million per year for every daily hour Frind puts into the maintenance of Plentyoffish.
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Among the technologies adding brainpower to the grid are nascent wireless protocols like ZigBee; Z-Wave from Zensys; and Echelon’s LonWorks, which tracks power use not only wirelessly but also over power lines.
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This is the first part of my series on using and applying best practices to your Flex development process. This article will focus on best practices for setting up your Flex project.
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Reddit clone in 300 lines of pure web2py code / immense scalability!
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So many of you asked, so here is the reddish (http://
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Big Blue said it will combine ILOG’s software with its business process management software and service oriented architecture technology (statement). The $340 million price tag is a 37 percent premium from ILOG’s closing price Friday.
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96 of the Best Ever Free Icon Sets – For Web Designers, Developers and Bloggers
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we call a function, e.g. versioned_css(“main”). In this function we append the git hash (git-hash-object filename) to the filename, before the extension, caching the result
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Mobile Fu automatically detects mobile devices that access your Rails application. People can access your site from a Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, etc. and it will automatically adjust the format of the request from :html to :mobile.
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Pete Forde asked me to present on memcached (mem-cache-dee) after my popular blog article Secret to memcached. The talk covers different use cases such as simple html snippet stores to advanced expiry systems such as generational cache keys.
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Utilising SWFUpload with Rails can be tricky. For this tutorial we’re going to be using SWFUpload, the popular attachment_fu plugin, some attachment_fu hacks and the mimetype_fu plugin.
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“Apple, it seems, now has to deal with the average Joe and the average Joe is considerably more cranky than some turtle-necked fanboys in their loft in SoHo,” Biggs wrote.
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However, we can do better. There’s still a lot of noise in the view, mostly related to conditions and computations on the model objects. Let’s pull some of that into the model:
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Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and headers.
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1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web
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Heartbeat is a piece of software that provides High Availability features such as monitoring the availability of the machines in the cluster, transferring the virtual IPs
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In this article, we’re going to go through the entire process of installing, configuring and testing DRBD, Heartbeat and MySQL running in a 2 node cluster environment.
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RubyForge: Top Ruby Downloads
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Best of FREE Web Template
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Coordinate-sharing site Brightkite announced a beta API that could put them way ahead of Yahoo and FireEagle
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There are thousands of tricks you can learn from someone’s who’s an expert at the command line
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A web-based micro-blogging (“tweet”) client that currently supports Twitter. Integration with other services coming soon!
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The most interesting performance tuning tips from the video:
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In this example, we have a simple contact form with name, email, and phone number. The form submits all the fields to a php script without page refresh, using native jQuery functions (native meaning, you don’t need to download any extra plugins
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In 2000, Craigslist was run on one PC running Linux and handled 6 million page views a month. Today, it has two co-location facilities and 300 servers
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Twitter Brand Index
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Launched in May 2006, Blockshopper is a residential real estate news service for… eureka.. actual residents themselves. We’re writing for the homeowners, otherwise known as the ones making the biggest investments of their lives.
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By using Terracotta’s high-performance redundant cache in runtime state rather than a database, ConnectNow provides service for a high volume of Web meetings and activity, while enabling seamless recovery in case of a partial system failure
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Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009
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Now your users have the tools to suggest ideas to improve your product or company, and get your direct feedback in a way never before possible.
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sliverlight twitter app
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open flash chart ported to ruby and so far it has worked quite well with Rails. see the many graph examples below.
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Manage Your Twitter Following and Followers
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Medpedia is the collaborative project to collect the best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available worldwide.
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5pm is flexible and simple to use. It has a powerful set of features and comes with a smart customizable interface – everything is within a click or two.
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A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
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Managing logs is hard as it is, and now imagine you have several (dozen) servers in EC2, the process becomes a chore, the debugging is hard, and frustration abounds.
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If the show sells 100,000 units on iTunes, he makes $87,280; if it sells a million copies, he winds up making more than $2.6 million on his original “low six-figure” investment
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Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization on existing or future Web-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers.
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It’s now possible to run Rails 2.1 apps on Heroku. Just change your
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Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for website designers. Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac.
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Starling is a “light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol.” Starling makes it ridiculously easy to set up a network-accessible queue
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A fast-loading iPhone webapp that will help you locate the 10 best prices on gas while you are on the streets of San Francisco
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It’s just a a socket you send a messages over. Get over it already.
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iPhone app developers will be able to integrate apps with Facebook Connect—in other words, apps will be able to link up to and share data with your Facebook account,
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Centrif is a search platform that answers questions with social bookmarks that users have submitted as fitting particular search queries.
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It wraps a certain number of techniques that make it a decent tool for manipulating web resources. ‘rufus-verbs’ is an extended HTTP client library (gem). It provides the four main HTTP “verbs” as Ruby methods : get, put, post and delete.
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People often want to know how Xapian will scale. The short answer is “very well” – a previous version offered a search over around 500 million web pages (1.5 terabytes). Searches took less than a second.
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loads of web-design resources
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Facebook Connect allows users to authenticate using their Facebook ID
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This is the part one of the complete tutorials. These series of tutorials will teach you how to design a template in Photoshop, slice it and convert it to a CSS layout.
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The biggest database and widest variety of telecommuting jobs available
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There have been 40,000 bit.ly URLs created so far with 5,000 added everyday.
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LinkedIn users are now being shown personalized news targeting their industry verticals on the Business and Technology sections of NYTimes.com and will then be prompted to share those stories will professional associates.
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how can we get started? Where can we get all the best iPhone Application development resources? Please have a look at the list of hand pciked iPhone resources below
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LinkedIn’s Bumper Sticker app: one billion page per month Facebook Ruby on Rails application.
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Apple had stacks of “iPhone 3G Gift Cards” for customers who wanted to give the gift of iPhone 3G to a friend
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RWE will focus on: web standards, Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, design, security, and web framework selection. Doug Crockford and Molly Holzschlag speaking
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How it works: Notify us when a train passes: Send a text to Twitter (40404) in the following format: @WhereTheEL [Train Color] [Station] [Direction] Example: @WhereTheEL brown addison S
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I’ve worked side-by-side with my three coeditors at Lifehacker.com remotely for 3 years.
The key to our placeless office: Web applications that let us all the other things that regular teams do from our home offices, hotel rooms, and Internet cafes.
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We currently carry 18 of the very best stationery brands, and we are always seeking inspired design. We hold design challenges, Winning designs are sold on Minted, The best designers are commissioned to create further work
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A lens is one person’s view on a topic. It’s a web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, Amazon books, and much more. That way, when someone is looking for information, fast, your lens gets him started.
