Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

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• chartbeat – real-time website analytics and uptime monitoring Used by Mahalo.
• nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git branching model
• Packaging reuseabe & testable Django apps with virtualenv, pip, and Fabric
• Evaluating Django Caching Options | codysoyland.com
• How to detect a page request from Safari 4’s Top Sites feature "In the current version of Safari 4 (4.0.4) the Top Sites request for the base page (but not its JS/CSS/image resources) carries an additional HTTP header, namely "X-Purpose: preview".

New blog post on the Collective Detective site: “Freedom from IE6: We Have It, So Should You.”

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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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• kuler "Web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community."
• Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
• iConvert: Convert ico, icns, and png icons online for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes
• rentzsch's clicktoflash at master – GitHub ClickToFlash is a WebKit plug-in that prevents automatic loading of Adobe Flash content. If you want to see the content, you can opt-in by clicking on it or adding an entire site to its whitelist.

  Try control-clicking (or right-clicking) on a unloaded Flash box to access ClickToFlash's contextual menu which allow you to do advanced things like edit its whitelist.

Over the past few weeks Safari started chewing up the CPU and causing my MacBook Pro to sound like it’s going to take flight. This of course chews up the battery as well.

At first, I thought there was Flash running in one of the pages I load regularly since Flash has a number of issues running well on a Mac. My other thought was that one of the sites I visit regularly has some weird JavaScript bug. The CPU usage would just start climbing at some point; I couldn’t pin down what the cause was or the exact steps to recreate it.

So today I fire it up and Safari immediately starts to devour system resources. Fed up, I do all of the usual things: disabled plug-ins, moved the contents out of ~/Library/Safari, watched the Console for odd messages. Nothing seemed to do it.

Then in occurred to me to try something as a web developer I do all the time: Empty the Browser Cache. (Safari > Empty Cache…)

Disco! It seems once the cache gets to a certain point in Safari, it begins to struggle.

Sometimes the answer is simple.

Hope this helps.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Ajaxian » iPhone Safari Flick Navigation By Example .divSlide {
  -webkit-animation-name: "slide-me-to-the-right";
  -webkit-animation-duration: 1s;
  }
  @-webkit-keyframes "slide-me-to-the-right" {
  from { left: 0px; }
  to { left: 100px; }
  }
• To Title Case | Individed JavaScript for converting text to title case.
• Terminal Tip: Burning a disc did you know that you can burn discs right from the Terminal window with a simple command and a drag/drop? Just enter the following command followed by the path to a folder or disk image:

  drutil burn filehere

  Don't type the "filehere" — that's where you put the path to the file/folder that you wish to burn. You can either type the location manually or drag and drop the file onto the Terminal window. But that's not all you can do with drutil; you can also eject media from the optical drive by typing "drutil eject." To see all of the available drutil options, just type in drutil for a quick list or man drutil for a full description.

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• 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

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• From iPhone SDK to Simple App in Less than 45.2 Seconds — iTouch My iPhone 1. Open the Xcode app 2. Select File -> New Project 3. Select the Cocoa Touch Application 4. Select a name and save it in the Documents folder 5. Once the project appears, click Build and Go 6. The Aspen iPhone Simulator will load 7. Close Simulator
• Are ad networks for loser/weak publishers?
• How to enable single window mode in Safari | naquah.net defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

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

• 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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• MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate
• MonoPrice.com HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more!
• Keywurl Safari Plug-in the restores search to the address bar like Firefox.