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Glance is an easy-to-use screen sharing tool that lets you host live web demos, sales presentations, webinars, and more.
Archive | October, 2008
links for 2008-10-19
links for 2008-10-18
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spreadsheet comparison of the online storage sites
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Ruby On Rails Security Guide – This manual describes common security problems in web applications and how to avoid them with Rails
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Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter
links for 2008-10-17
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Memopal offers 150 Gigabytes of space where you can archive your files for only $49 per year, and includes numerous services.
links for 2008-10-15
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Little Snitch provides flexible configuration options, allowing you to grant specific permissions to your trusted applications or to prevent others from establishing particular Internet connections at all.
links for 2008-10-14
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Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again.
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Instead of focusing on displaying similar features of available plans, communicate the differences between them.
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6. Forget about organization — use technology.
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Managing changes to APIs is hard. That is no surprise to anyone who has ever maintained an API of any sort. Web services, being a special case of API, are susceptible to many of the difficulties around versioning as other types of APIs. For HTTP based REST style web services the combination of resources and content negotiation can be used to mitigate most of the issues surrounding API versioning.
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Apps Amuck offers a directory containing free tutorials for professionals and hobbyists iPhone developers. Our goal is to help you solve your development problems, and learn the newest technologies using the many existing free tutorials available here. The site will also contain a discussion forums, a free job search, white papers, and other technical reference materials.
links for 2008-10-13
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fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs
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PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript.
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Next month, Samsung will ship the 19-inch SyncMaster 930ND monitor, which relies on Teradici’s chip. Business customers can plug an Ethernet cable into the monitor and turn it into a full-fledged computer by connecting back to their data centers.
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#2: Evolution
This is the Linux version of Outlook. Another one-stop shop, only this time it’s all about the PIM. E-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, advanced searching, desktop integration, shared vCards, junk filters, encryption, LDAP support, iCal support, and much more. And if your company uses an Exchange server, you’re in luck because the Evolution Connector will be able to keep you connected. Evolution tends to be the default e-mail client for the GNOME desktop, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy Evolution on KDE (or any other window manager.)
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PHPDL is a Php script that lists all the files in a directory (except itself of course). What sets PHPDL apart is that everything the script needs is in one file, including the file-type icons it uses.
links for 2008-10-11
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Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn
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Here's a simple quiz:
* Can you capture something you see on your screen and paste it into Word or PowerPoint?
* Do you have a blog?
* Can you open a link you get in an email message?
* Do you read more than five blogs a day?
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SimplyBox is a free service to Capture, Share, and Organize ANYTHING you find on the web
links for 2008-10-06
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How to call people on the iPod Touch using Fring (No Jailbreaking Required!)
links for 2008-10-05
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"The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days," said Sun director of Web technologies
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The Pulse is significantly cheaper than a Tablet PC although the need to drag around a notebook can negate some of the portability advantages.
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AskPeople is a flexible, self-hosted web tool for managing simple web-based surveys & feedback forms.
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Write out your alphabet horizontally and all on one line, leaving plenty of space between each line, and be sure to write the sentence below the punctuation (all lowercase). It helps me make your handwriting look more natural!:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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explain the MapReduce approach to distributed processing, will show a few example implementations, and will discuss MapReduce vs. other distributed processing techniques.
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MyJugaad.in is a slideshow for webpages from a list provided by your RSS feed(s).
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Digging around in the Rails source code I found the file actionpack/lib/action_controller/status_codes.rb, which has the mapping of the status code to the status message.
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“We didn’t have a presentation, we had a product and stats,” explained Hurley. “It wasn’t a business idea; it was a solution that we were pitching. We skipped the entire angel process because it was going to be expensive to store all of these videos.“
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Fossil is a new distributed software revision control system that includes an integrated wiki and an integrated bug-tracking system all in a single, easy-to-use, stand-alone executable
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Please note that I’ve not included any plugins or tutorials that rely on server side code (this will come later), but if you know of a good plugin or tut I’ve missed, feel free to leave a comment and a link.
links for 2008-10-04
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Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.
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jira4r is a Ruby client library useful for controlling Atlassian's JIRA issue tracking system. It is currently in uses as part of the Xircles product that manages the Codehaus and other open source development sites. While not under heavy development, it is in heavy use in production systems.


October 19, 2008
