Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• 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.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Vlad the Deployer
• Simple scalable CSS based breadcrumbs | Veerle's blog
• Revisiting the randomized signature AppleScript, now with API goodness – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Designing Social Interfaces – Social Patterns
• Skittles Vodka Tutorial | Mix That Drink
• Easter egg on Spell Number v1.03 that enable Emoji icon on non-jailbreak iPhone/iPhone Touch | Waterworld Easiest way to add Emoji keyboard on the iPhone.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• 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

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• WhatTheFont : MyFonts Upload images to get the font used in it.
• Version test for Adobe Flash Player Pulls up additional information about current version of installed Flash.
• 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
• %w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Rolling with Rails 2.1 – The First Full Tutorial – Part 1

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Moving over to Git
• Git Quick Reference
• fairleads: Rails 2.0 and Scaffolding Step by Step
• bleything.blog(:stuff) DRY out your database.yml Good notes on keeping files manageable.
• Using Passenger on OSX for Rails development · Fingertips Step-by-step on using mod_rails on apache.
• 28 mod_rails / Passenger Resources To Help You Deploy Rails Applications Faster

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) – Part 1 of n « YAB
• Pixar?s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation – GigaOM
• Julius Eckert – Projects Quicksilver Interface plugin – SilverFlow

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• My Git Workflow | Oliver Steele
• Barking Iguana: Getting started with Rails 2.0
• Official Google Mac Blog: App Engine Launcher for Mac OS X
• Git User’s Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer)
• Git cheat sheet (PNG)

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Official Google Mac Blog: Vidnik Vidnik is our newest application in the Google Mac playground. It’s a simple program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube.
• TUAW Faceoff: Screencasting – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
• Ruby/Rails Links (AllTop)

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Spills, Site Cleanup and Disposal | Mercury | US EPA
• Port Map and TCMPortMapper
• god – process and task monitoring done right Like Monit, only awesome? God is an easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby. Keeping your server processes and tasks running should be a simple part of your deployment process.

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads Best of | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
• Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails) Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails) enables people to deploy their Ruby on Rails applications in an upload-and-go manner, which is very reminiscent of the PHP way of deploying.
• Git Magic – Preface
• DryIcons
• Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator
• Capistrano A tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines.
• Django Pluggables Find reusable applications for your Django project, quickly and easily!
• InsideRIA: LFFS (Learning Flex from Scratch)
• Safari 3.1, Mac OS X 10.5.2: Bookmark syncing issues with iPhone, iPod Touch, .Mac defaults delete com.apple.safari RegisteredSafariSyncClient