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Debian Backports
by Claus Christensen | about 23 hours ago | Read moreinstructions [Debian Backports] Using backports.org is very simple: 1. Add this line deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list. 2. Run apt-get update 3. All backports are deactivated by default. If you want to install something from backports run: apt-get -t etch-backports install “package” Of course, you can use aptitude as well: aptitude -t etch-backports install “package”
aizatto: @ditesh need more be said?
by Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 23 hours ago |
Read more aizatto: @ditesh need more be said?
RE: RE: RE: установка will_paginate
by Ruslan Voloshin | about 23 hours ago |
Read more gem install will_paginate
aizatto: @ditesh damn you figured out my plan
by Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 23 hours ago |
Read more aizatto: @ditesh damn you figured out my plan
Web application that has changed my life
by Witold Rugowski | about 23 hours ago | Read moreSoon it will be two years since I was exposed to web application, which had probably most impact on me since AJAX was born. I have checked old time entries and it was August 2006 when I found SlimTimer. You ask - time tracking application had most impact on my life? Yes, exactly. (c) Brenda Anderson I [...]
aizatto: @kamal_fariz since identi.ca (laconi.ca) is FOSS, create a patch to post to Twitter, and pray that it gets accepted! Tada! We have a bridge!
by Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 23 hours ago |
Read more aizatto: @kamal_fariz since identi.ca (laconi.ca) is FOSS, create a patch to post to Twitter, and pray that it gets accepted! Tada! We have a bridge!
@seanx2 the cruel irony :)
by Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 23 hours ago |
Read more aizatto's status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-08 07:40:34 UTC
aizatto: I guess I should share mine as well http://identi.ca/aizatto
by Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | about 23 hours ago |
Read more aizatto: I guess I should share mine as well http://identi.ca/aizatto
RE: RE: установка will_paginate
by Ruslan Voloshin | about 23 hours ago |
Read more Не получается установить плагинь Will_Paginate ruby script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/will_paginate выдает ошибку "svn: Unknown hostname 'errtheblog.com'" Подкиньте пожалуйста локальную на dsamara1981@googlemail.com или подскажите как поступить. Заранее спасибо!!
Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008 - Austin, Texas - September 4-6, 2008
by Peter Cooper | about 23 hours ago | Read moreRegistration for Texas's own Ruby conference, the Lone Star Ruby Conference, has opened. The overall event takes place between September 4 - 6, 2008 in the Norris Conference Center in Austin, TX. Tickets are $250 for the two-day conference portion, or $425 for one day of training / tutorials followed by the two day conference. [...]
qUIpt: кэшинг для джаваскрипта
by Aleksandr Lossenko | about 24 hours ago | Read moreMario Heiderich выпустил qUIpt, библиотеку которая использует window.name для хранения различных данных. В его примере - для хранения джаваскрипта. Работает скрипт довольно просто. qUIpt загружает другие джаваскрипт файлы на странице и сохраняет их содержимое в window.name. При следующем запросе джаваскрипт загружается уже из window.name. Довольно интересный трюк, но я немного не понимаю какой в этом смысл. Стандартное [...]
Publicidad en Tuenti
by Álvaro Ortiz | about 24 hours ago | Read moreAyer me crucé con este post que hablaba de una campaña de Red.es en Tuenti (vía). Me resultó curioso porque este usuario decía no haberse nunca cruzado con nada de publi, pero esta no es la primera acción que se realiza en Tuenti (ni la segunda). En Tuenti hay publi pero solo la ve quien [...]
What’s your best travel tip?
by Daniel Gibbons | about 24 hours ago | Read moreRoadtrippin’, weekend getaways or international adventures, we’ve all got some tourist tips to trade. Carrie says: Wear comfortable shoes (I like Birkenstocks or ballet flats,) and carry a bag of almonds for protein. Danielle says: I always travel with a shawl and Emergen C — 1000 mgs of Vitamin kicks the bugs and fatigue. Top [...]
Groot alarm
by Tom Klaasen | 1 day ago | Read moreDat was me het nachtje wel.
Om 2u30 een loeiharde sirene. Even later nog veel meer sirenes, en een indringende geur door het hele huis.
Samen met de vriendin ramen en deuren goed gesloten, en dan heldhaftig de deur uitgestapt. Of wacht, eerst een broek aangedaan en mijn telefoon meegegrist. Op verkenning in de donkere nacht.
Wat bleek? Een grote loods bij Atlas Copco stond in brand. Een grote rookzuil, en veel blauwe lichten. Op amper 200 meter van onze voordeur. Gelukkig ligt er tussen de loods en ons huis enkel veel parking, dus de kans op overslaan was miniem.
Ons leven in handen gelegd van de mannen met de blauw lichten, en terug in bed gekropen. Toch lastig om de slaap terug te vatten. Het wordt een harde dag.
links for 2008-07-08
by Libin Pan | 1 day ago |
Read more 浅析Ruby on Rails部署方案 Rails的部署方式的核心问题就在于解决一、Rails本身是非线程安全，二、Ruby的线程性能差这两个问题上。本文列举了十余种常见的Rails部署方案，其中基于Lighttpd 1.5的几种解决方案都从原理上很 (tags: performance rails ror ruby)
And now for something completely different
by Paul Browne | 1 day ago | Read moreI’ve been very lucky in the 9 years that I’ve been working for myself. Lucky in the opportunities to travel and the people that I’ve met. Lucky in I’m doing something I love - playing with and building the latest technologies. Lucky on the financial side of things that it’s given me a wide range [...]
Automate mysql backup with amazon s3
by Scott Motte | 1 day ago |
Read more This tutorial is awesome for automating mysql backup with amazon s3. Plus, it is from a slicehost user - eve n more awesomeness.
“Loading data in migrations”
by Piyush Gupta | 1 day ago | Read moreI found migrations to be very useful tool to maintain data structures in a rails project. It is clean, easy to understand and fast when it comes to recreate a database. During develoment, I faced several times the same problem: “How to import static data into the database?” Of course, one can create fixture and load [...]
Tenha seu sistema personalizado de conferências on-line
by Carlos Eduardo G. Franco | 1 day ago | Read moreA e-Genial está sempre procurando não só melhorar a qualidade de seus produtos, mas também tornar os valores dos mesmos mais acessíveis. Agora você e sua empresa poderá ter seu sistema de conferência personalizado a um custo bem acessível, confira algumas das novidades. O TOM Conference acaba de ganhar uma nova versão que permite não [...]
Links for 2008-07-07 [del.icio.us]
by Elliot Smith | 1 day ago | Read more- Trollop
Command line option parsing; much simpler than cmdparse - InfoQ: User Story Estimation Techniques
- AtomServer
Atom publishing protocol server implementation
Innovation and business are difficult to do at the same time.
by Peter Jackson | 1 day ago |
Read more Innovation is not efficient. It is inherently wasteful. There is churn and rework. However, it is the only strategy to sustain a competitive advantage. So to the extent that you can organize your teams and processes to embrace this fact, you will be successful.
Links for 2008-07-07 [del.icio.us]
by Marcel Scherf | 1 day ago | Read more- Specials: Browser, Generatoren, Optimierer, SEO-Werkzeuge, … – UITest.com
- A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die
- Gradual Engagement - Hitting The Signup Wall | Online Epiphany | Social Content Exploration
- The Complexity of Simplicity :: UXmatters
- Elavision: Insights: Gradual engagement
- Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care - ReadWriteWeb
- BlogFish: Performance implications of block&capture helpers
- Don Norman's jnd.org / The truth about Google's so-called "simplicity"
- Progressive Disclosure (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Newsletter on Web Usability
- Protocol Buffers - Google Code
ZendUnCon 2008
by D. Keith Casey Jr. | 1 day ago |
Read more Often in this space, you read about the latest and greatest events happening around DC... or read the coverage of the conferences I've attended all over the place. This time, I'm using this space to announce something different:
Disclaimer: I am the Chair/Chief-Cat-Wrangler of this UnConference. It means I'm 137.2% biased in everything I say here. But remember, "biased" is not the same as "wrong". ;)
What's an UnConference you ask? Have you heard of BarCamp? How about PodCamp? Or even my own personal favorite SocialDevCamp? They're all UnConfs. The point of an UnConf is to get rid of the structure and provide an event that is more community-driven, focused on interesting topics of the moment, and engages everyone at whatever level they can. Normally, people kick around presentation ideas, they get voted on day of the UnConf, a bit of chaos ensues, and a schedule pops out the other end. That means you don't necessarily know who will be there or what the topics will be. But that's where we're a little different...
Since we're attached to the regular ZendCon, we have a few major benefits:
- First, I don't have to track down sponsors, a venue, projectors, or any number of other little things. So I can focus on finding smart people to come and talk about their PHP-related passions.
- Second, we have some of the smartest people in the PHP community already planning to be there. How convenient.
- Third, we have a marketing budget! Okay, so the budget is barely enough to buy
- Finally, and most importantly... whatever treats and caffeine-ladened beverages ZendCon shares are ours too.
And this brings me to the biggest difference: We're going to do some voting before ZendUnCon begins to narrow down a few presentations.
Before you start throwing around phrases like "the unconference spirit", hear me out.
Since most people will have to spend time, money, and lots of effort to attend, we need to help them convince their boss/spouse/hamster that the trip makes sense. We need to make it easier for those people to attend. Therefore: a) we will not fill all the slots, b) all presentations will be chosen by conference attendees, and c) no one gets a free pass to present.
And here's my secret goal in all of this: I want people to come to the UnConference and not leave. I want them to forget that there's a Conference going on. I want the discussion happening, the caffeine flowing, and bigger ideas to appear on our side of things.
Drupal Cache
by Rahul Dewan | 1 day ago | Read moreHere’s a preview on how our Drupal training is proceeding with Jacob Singh. After a day long session hacking around on Drupal, we spent some time understanding best practices to follow in case of websites with large amounts of data.
[jruby] JRuby徹底入門 出ます！
by Takeshi AKIMA | 1 day ago | Read moreJRuby 徹底入門 作者: 株式会社イーシー・ワン 出版社/メーカー: ソーテック社 発売日: 2008/07/19 メディア: 単行本 本の執筆に参加させていただきました！結構いい感じだと思いますので、是非！
Time for some sleep, methinks.
by Damien McKenna | 1 day ago |
Read more Time for some sleep, methinks.
Hello world!
by Ezwan Aizat bin Abdullah Faiz | 1 day ago |
Read more aizatto's status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-08 04:26:23 UTC
Is it just me or was the endin…
by Damien McKenna | 1 day ago |
Read more Is it just me or was the ending of Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes a cop-out?
Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript | A List Apart
by Ryan Cannon | 1 day ago | Read moreGetting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript | A List Apart: Binding, scope, closures and prototype chains can be the most confusing parts of JavaScript. Knowledge of Porteneuve’s subject is what separates the women from the girls amongst scripters.
SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.
by Ara T Howard | 1 day ago |
Read more SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.
"My 10 URL design rules are quite simple:
Make the URLs clean
Make them simple
Make a URL human and..."
by Ara T Howard | 1 day ago |
Read more “
My 10 URL design rules are quite simple:
- Make the URLs clean
- Make them simple
- Make a URL human and machine readable
- Use one URL per page
- No special characters besides a minus/hyphen “-” ideally
- Use slashes like real directories
- Enhance URLs with numbers but don’t rely on them
- Skip the date, it’s not the most important info
- Do not ever change URLs once set
- If you have to change URLs move them with a “301 permanently moved” redirect
- SEO 2.0 | Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes (via browneyes)
Gone XL BIS... Welcome Telkomsel Prepaid BIS!
by Leo Laksmana | 1 day ago | Read moreSo after enduring 5 months of horrendeous BIS service from XL, I put my foot down and switched to Telkomsel's prepaid BIS starting this July. I did try out Telkomsel's BIS a while back with high satisfaction so this was a no brainer move. There was one hick-up during the activation process that left my wife and I without BB for 3 days.
The not bad news is I have to content with 3 GSM phones at the moment. My XL number is my work number, so I can't let that go. I also have a Telkomsel's postpaid number for my friends and family. And last but not least the new Telkomsel Simpati for my BB. I'm thinking of forwarding calls to either one of my postpaid number to my BB. My Telkomsel's postpaid would be the better candidate because of the discounted rate for in-network calls, but my XL number would've make more sense. The problem is, I can't get sms to be forwarded to my BB :(
"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of..."
by Julia West | 1 day ago |
Read more “Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.”
- Louis Kronenberger
iPhone 3G or not?
by Lee Marlow | 1 day ago | Read moreSince they announced the iPhone 3G I am pretty convinced that there isn’t much new over my current iPhone. Camera is still 2Mega pixels, the plastic case is not so nice, gps is cool, but I have one in my car, 16Gb over 8 could be useful, form factor changed slightly so it may not fit in my car cradle. So it’s basically the same phone with slightly faster internet. But I’m such a sucker when it comes to gadgets and I was just reading this article on How to replace an original iPhone with an iPhone 3G. Now if only my wife didn’t want my current iPhone, I wouldn’t have to buy the new one :-)
Open Web Standards Curriculum →
by Andy Croll | 1 day ago |
Read more I don’t particularly love their browser, but I like the cut of their jib. Massive kudos for an organisation stepping up and providing this great resource, now all you need is universities to use it!
rSpec: Sending Headers to Controllers
by Steve Ross | 1 day ago | Read moreDidja ever wonder how to send a particular HTTP</spa...
The Fukuoka Farming website
by Rick Bradley | 1 day ago |
Read more The Fukuoka Farming website: overview of Fukuoka farming techniques (posted by rickbradley)
Google Open Sources Data Interchange Format [del.icio.us]
by Brent Sordyl | 1 day ago | Read moreProtocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice.
@supaben34 macupdate.com ->…
by Damien McKenna | 1 day ago |
Read more @supaben34 macupdate.com -> search. Or, do as I do: wife + Quicken X-)
@supaben34 I have a hard time …
by Damien McKenna | 1 day ago |
Read more @supaben34 I have a hard time dealing with facebook due to the lack of RSS
A Dreamcast In Your iPhone
by Fred Brunel | 1 day ago | Read moreTouch Arcade unveiled details of the iPhone’s hardware capabilities but the graphic chipset specs draw my attention, […] Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR MBX Lite 3D accelerator, likely running at the iPhone’s bus speed of 103MHz. This fourth-generation PowerVR chipset is basically an evolution of the second-generation graphics hardware used in the Sega Dreamcast (an [...]
Double Shot #243
by Mike Gunderloy | 1 day ago | Read moreThings are churning right along here. Ruby Row - Boutique advertising network for Rubyists. $600 will get your ad on 5 of the most-known Ruby blogs. Introducing CampTweet - Pipe Twitter, Summize, or RSS feeds into Campfire.
The World Wide Web unofficial History
by Marcos Ricardo | 1 day ago |
Read more Since I’m a newbie on this Web Application development field: first things first. I need to know the history, the facts that bring us to current WWW status. So, for my practical and objective learning interests, I have compiled my unofficial WWW history, and I will publish it here in three parts: The early daysThe Browsers WarHere and now The idea is to keep all the objective WWW
Loic Le Meur About Starting a Business
by Fred Brunel | 1 day ago | Read moreLoic wrote a very interesting serie of articles about starting a business on the blog Envie d’Entreprendre (french only).
Tassie - Is It Still The Same Place...... - John Linton's Personal Musings [del.icio.us]
by Warren Seen | 1 day ago | Read moreI've mentioned before that Exetel is having difficulties obtaining realistically priced transit bandwidth between Tasmania and Victoria so that we can commission a Hobart, and possibly, Launceston PoP.
Is Tasmania Really A Part Of Australia? - John Linton's Personal Musings [del.icio.us]
by Warren Seen | 1 day ago | Read moreI have been following the various discussions ... [on] cable access to and from Tasmania with increasing interest over the past few months as the time gets closer for Exetel to make a decision on how to provide ADSL and other services to Tasmanian users
Rails Upgrade Bumps
by Jim Halberg | 1 day ago |
Read more After skimming the “What’s New” posts for several Rails versions without finding anything worth jumping at, it was time to upgrade. While JSON enhancements (fixes) are the driving reason for the move, there certainly are a few “nice to haves” that I’ve been looking forward to checking out. Partial Updates Unfortunately, one of the things I’ve been [...]
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