Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

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• iPhone-like password fields using jQuery // DECAF° blog für digitale kommunikation
• How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2 | HTML5 Doctor
• HTML5 Elements and Attributes
• South This is South, intelligent schema migrations for Django apps. The latest release is 0.5; see the Roadmap for more information about future releases.
• Django Design Patterns

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• The Scala Programming Language
• IDEO Labs » LiveView: an iPhone app for on-screen prototyping iPhone app and screen overlay to help with iPhone app and site development.
• Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala • The Register
• 2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS Here’s how I quickly got my Ruby web development environment into ship-shape form The Thoughtbot Way.
  Many of these instructions are specific to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Some of them are opinionated (Vim over Textmate). Pick-and-choose what you need but this is everything that I use happily day-to-day right now.
• DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache! This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss.
  You can use PNGs as the SRC of an <IMG/> element or as a background-image property in CSS.

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• San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel: Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, a Luxury San Antonio Hotel
• Hidden Preferences in Safari 4 Public Beta — Observation Point
• The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist | Our Blog | Box UK
• jQuery Pop Over Effects | Team Tutorials
• How to create a stunning and smooth popup using jQuery | yensdesign – Tutorials, Web Design and Coding

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• How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails – (37signals)
• Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash | Raleigh Web Design & Development | New Media Campaigns
• iLife Tip: Enable Multi-Touch maps in iPhoto '09 – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) and type (or copy/paste) the following statement and press enter:

  defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YES

  When you restart iPhoto, you will notice that you are now able to scroll in/out of the Places maps with ease. If it turns out that you don't want the scrolling feature, just retype the statement, replacing "YES" with "NO."

• Encoding for Apple TV | Mac 911 | Macworld
• Enable Emoji Icon on iPhone 2.2 without Jailbreak | Simon Blog

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• Lighthead – Caffeine Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
• Fluid CSS TextMate Bundle at Meta | ateM Helpful bundle for EM based designs.
• Download YouTube & Google Video clips via bookmarklets
• Stacks Power Tweaks: Power Tweak Your Mac’s Stacks

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• Coding Horror: I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users Listening to users is a tricky thing. Users often don’t know what they want, and even if they did, the communication is likely to get garbled somewhere between them and you. By no means should you ignore your users, though. Most people will silently and f
• mezzoblue § Chalkwork iPhone & iPod Touch Free Icons
• Secrets Secret Prefs for OS X. Secrets is in Beta and many of these options can harm your system if used improperly.

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• Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone – (37signals)
• Free ?Starkers? Wordpress theme
• 5 htaccess Tricks Every Webmaster Should Know
• Install hidden screen savers in Leopard

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• Move all Windows to the Main Display
• Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components
• Investing Wiki with Research about Companies, Investment Concepts, and more…
• iPhone Dev Center – Apple Developer Connection

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• How To Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site ? All in the head On adding a page to the home screen, Mobile Safari looks for a file in the root of the site called apple-touch-icon.png. If that file exists, it?s used. Simple as that. Or add: <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”/customIcon.png”/>
• MacThemes / [Growl] iPhonesque ? ala the dialog box on iPhone
• iPhone window.onorientationchange Code on devphone Apple has put up some sample code that shows off the new window.onorientationchange and window.orientation ability that lets you detect the orientation of the iPhone.
• Enable Data Detectors in iChat You can enable Data Detectors in iChat messages by entering the following into the Terminal (when iChat’s not running): defaults write com.apple.iChat EnableDataDetectors 1 To disable this, just reenter the code into Terminal, changing the 1 to a 0.

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• Don?t Forget Your Trailing Slash | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility
• colr.org Play with colors and color schemes!
• Color Palette Generator Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image.
• IMG2TXT: ASCII Art Made Easy! This script takes the URL of a GIF, JPG, or PNG image and converts that image into ASCII text or colored HTML. Not very useful, but pretty cool.
• 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging
• Iconize Textlinks with CSS – pooliestudios
• iGoogle’s Winter Theme javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/winterscape.xml’);void(0); go to iGoogle, paste the code in the address bar, press Enter and click on the Save button in “Select a theme for this tab” to keep the new theme.
• Micromat – Syphone Syphone is a freeware Macintosh utility for use with Apple’s iPhone. The program installs on your Macintosh and does not alter the iPhone in any way. This application lets you view, save, and back up your SMS messages.
• Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done! gem install rails -y –source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A spider’s view of Web 2.0 We’ve compiled some tips for creating Ajax-enhanced websites that are also understood by search engines.
• Begley’s Blog: Time Machine Menu Bar Add-On Goes in: “/System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras”
• Guarding Your Social Security Number – TIME
• Long and shortened URL scripts Applescript and quicksilver
• Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings in Leopard
• Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings
• BetterZip Quick Look Generator | MacItBetter Don’t you wish Leopard’s Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? Supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt’s SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
• BetterZip Quick Look Generator | MacItBetter – Don’t you wish Leopard’s Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? Supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt’s SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
• IconGrabber – Got files? Get icons –