September 2008
16 posts
“I would suggest that structured data, on the whole, has one or more orders of...”
– Why does everything suck?: Anticipating the Next Generation of Search
“Again, it’s fine to have 9-5ers on your team–if you’re the Post Office. You...”
– (The) Startup Depression « The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Evil hook methods? →
Guilty. :)
Map Multiple Locations by Address →
A quick way to map multiple addresses, with support for copy/paste from Excel.
Community Engine →
A Rails plugin for quickly creating a social network.
Learning Advanced JavaScript →
A nice advanced JavaScript tutorial/presentation put together by John Resig.
Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist →
A pretty good list of good coding practices for Rails development.
Panda - Open source video platform →
Datejs - A JavaScript Date Library →
“any effective control system must be as complex as the system it controls”
– Ashby Theorems
Burn Your Burn-down Charts →
Some interesting thoughts on traditional burn-down charts and additional useful charts to help track projects.
Improve Your Technical Slides →
A good list of tips for making better conference presentations.
Asynchronous Database Access in Ruby →
I find this an interesting work around to some of Ruby’s limitations relative to concurrency. Would asynchronous database access be as big of a deal in a language like Java that can have true…
Hoptoad →
This looks like a useful service for keeping track of errors in a Rails’ app.
Passionate, Not Dogmatic →
JSON Resources →