- Slack Key Guitar Book — A rather comprehensive history of Hawaiian-style slack-key guitar.
Tagged as: guitar music hawaii alternate tuning reference - The Remarkable Case Of Davidson’s Eyes by H.G. Wells: Arthur’s Classic Novels — Wells short story I don’t know; a lovely tale of (literal) tele-vision. Linked to by Rod elsewhere.
Tagged as: shortstory hgwells scifi science fiction - The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin — This story is copyright 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is transcribed from Le Guin’s collection The Compass Rose because I’d like my friends to read it.
Tagged as: shortstory ursulaleguin scifi fiction language - MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff | PBS — Strong article on newsroom-developers, and about more than just Adrian Holovaty for once. Good quotations, too.
Tagged as: journalism programming development media newspapers future - Kirkville – Image Manipulation from the Command Line — Some notes on sips, the OSX command-line image manipulation tool.
Tagged as: osx sips image manipulation - macosxhints.com – Drag-and-drop script to quickly resize any image — Some nice tips on using sips with applescript
Tagged as: osx mac applescript photo sips tools - Revolution On Rails: DB migrations with a twist — Using migrations on a large scale, with lots of advice for doing so, including numbering migrations with timestamps rather than sequential integers (to prevent clashes).
Tagged as: rails rubyonrails database migrations development - George Osborne: Recasting the political settlement for the digital age — Reasonably interesting speech from George Osborne at the RSA; interesting given how savvy it is, and how (within reason) fair. Certainly interesting coming from the conservatives.
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- Shell Scripting Primer — ADC reference on shell scripting – looks comprehensive, nicely-organised, and well-written.
Tagged as: shell scripting programming unix osx mac tutorial reference - Curry Recipes Online – Index — Awesome resource if you’re even remotely into curry – lots of recipes from inside (UK) curry houses, lots of discussion on how to make the best base, lots of recipes. Yum.
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- Script.aculo.us’ BlindDown Test — Some useful sample code.
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- disambiguity – » Ambient Intimacy — "the phatic function is communication simply to indicate that communication can occur." Leisa Reichelt on "ambient intimacy", Twitter, and some Bakhtinian ideas.
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- Math for the Masses « WordPress.com — WordPress.com add support for LaTeX into their posts – translates code into inline images with appropriate alt text. Impressive, for the mathematically/scientifically minded at least.
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Notes on the Future of Web Apps 2007
05 March 2007
It’s been about two week since I went to FOWA2007 in London, and I’ve been meaning to write it up for a while. It was an… interesting experience, and I’ve been trying to find a way to frame why that is. Speeding on a train back from the provinces to London seemed a good way to concentrate my thoughts.
Last year’s FOWA was great: a one-day conference for
- danwebb.net – The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications — A very practical guide to rigging up the basics of OpenID in Rails.
Tagged as: rubyonrails ruby rails openid authentication programming tutorial howto - Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: A Better Way to Organize Your Helpers — Sod the improvement, the original suggestion is something I’d never thought of. Bye bye, overcrowded application_helper.rb …
Tagged as: rails helpers rubyonrails - FoxySofts – Another World — Another World GBA port, ROM image – completely free, and apparently "official"…
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- Web 2.0 Technologies: GeoKit: a plugin for location-based Rails apps — Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package.
Tagged as: ruby rails rubyonrails maps geo geocoding data plugin - How to back up and restore your important Mac OS X 10.4 files — …including a nice detailed section on Mail.app. I’m going to need that very, very soon.
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- Mocha Quickstart — A quick guide to getting started with Mocha – the Ruby library for mocking objects in tests.
Tagged as: mocha testing mock rails ruby rubyonrails tdd - Mike Clark’s Weblog – Attachment Fu — Mike Clark runs over the basics of RIck Olson’s attachment_fu plugin. A nice abstraction – will come in handy, for sure.
Tagged as: rails ruby rubyonrails image upload plugin tutorial
- mactactic – buying guide & replacement estimates – current mac release summary — Highly useful: analyses when an Apple model was last replaced, and tells you if it’s a good time to buy one. Fortunately for what I’m looking for, it’s "still good value"…
Tagged as: mac apple hardware computer shopping reference - NoLimits Roller Coaster Simulation – The Ultimate Roller Coasters Simulator for PC and Mac — NoLimits is a rollercoaster simulator. It looks awfully fun – especially the track designer
Tagged as: games play simulation physics rollercoaster - A v-2 bookshelf | Adam Greenfield’s design resources (and a few lifehacks) — Lots of great stuff listed here – worth going back to, for sure.
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