links for 2008-12-31

On our team we thought it’d be useful to auto-post Blocker defects from Jira to our present.ly stream. The gems httparty and jira4r made it easy.

Readers are guided through the process of obtaining control and perspective, organizing tasks and goals to reach the Getting Things Done (GTD) holy grail of an empty in-basket and e-mail inbox. Although the book purports to expand on the principles of GTD, there's very little new material in this latest offering,

The green marketing gurus at Netflix go even further, arguing that the mail is going to be delivered to your house anyway, so the environmental cost of delivering one of their DVDs is effectively zero. They use this theory to arrive at an enormous estimate for the number of gallons of gas saved by delivering DVDs through the U.S. Postal Service.

The purpose of this tutorial is to explain many aspects of the Facebooker project. The general approach here is provide running live code to be used as a reference for you own implementation. All the code samples in this tutorial are from the actual live code running the application. The facebooker plugin is pulled in as an external as well so the tutorial should be up to date with the latest code.

you would THINK would be simple, was pretty time consuming. Facebook, for some reason, makes it very difficult to find the RSS feed for your own posted status updates.

RFacebook is a Ruby interface to the Facebook API. It hides all the nitty-gritty details behind a beautiful Ruby front-end, allowing you to focus on writing great code.

Released in November, Ocarina racked up 400,000 downloads in less than a month.

Smule, which originally set a goal of taking in $100,000 in revenue this year, will end up making closer to $1 million. "It's amazing," Smith says. "The business is already profitable."