July 2008
140 posts
Join the Conversation: How to Engage... →
With the continued fragmentation of the media and proliferation of media options, the balance of power has shifted from the marketer
to the individual.
In Join the Conversation, Jaffe discusses the changing role of the consumer and how marketers must adapt by joining the rich, deep and meaningful conversation already in progress. This book reveals what marketers must do to become a welcome and...
oh, twitter… you is broken. love you anyway. the countdown to nyc continues: 5 days ‘til blast-off. omg, it’s becoming all too real now!
Live at An Event Apart New Orleans, Eric Meyer on... →
Short video.
Web 3.0 →
Web 3.oh oh. Stand back, the recruiters are coming!
Better Living Through XHTML →
Well-formedness. Compatibility. Relaxation. Ah, XML, I <3 you.
Motionbox - Blog →
Interesting company in NYC.
nycruby →
Gotta join.
Promote Social Entrepreneurship →
Social entrepreneurs are focused on more efficient and creative use of resources to produce scalable results as a framework for tackling entrenched social problems.
“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”
– George Bernard Shaw (via aja)
Big Fail
Is that better, or worse, than trying to delete a folder you made on your Dad’s work computer (you know, the one that holds his entire life and business information) and only knowing the cmds “mkdir DIRNAME”, “edit FILENAME”, “del FILENAME”, and “dir”? *after playing with files, trying to remove all evidence and leave Dad’s computer nice...
Tor Books: Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at... →
A daily doase of Sci-fi.
Using Sphinx for Non-Fulltext Queries →
Sphinx at Scribd
The Email Address Obfuscator Page →
Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with... →
Erlang being used in cool ways…
37signals Uses New Relic's Rails Performance... →
Fuzed and EC2 | Join The Conversation →
Wow. Amazon EC2, Ruby, Rails, Erlang. Cloud computing solving Rails Scaling issues… interesting. Just what the doctor ordered.
erlectricity - Google Code →
Erlang » Ruby Bridge
The End of All Bugs
Nordström believes that the whole approach to software design needs to be rethought. The usual approach is to validate a program via a lengthy testing process. Instead, he would like to see a design philosophy that guarantees from first principles that a program will do what it says on the box.
The key lies in an esoteric reformulation of mathematics called ‘type theory’ based on the notion of...
“…developers will flock to environments that provide them an easy way to...”
– Vishy Gopalakrishnan
“The remaining 10 open-source application, tool and database packages —...”
– Open-source software a security risk, study claims… no mention of Merb or Rails
Entrepreneur for Society | Ashoka.org →
Phoenix Rails User Group →
Check the event list below for the specifics
Pradipta's Rolodex CafePress Shop →
Must. Have. Coffee mug.
Is your web app a hooptie? Don’t just sit there. Pimp your app, dammit. http://tinyurl.com/6cj9l7 “3 Ways to Pimp Your Web Application”
Quality, free fonts →
THE ECO ZOO | ECODA!DOBUTSUEN →
Sink Or Swim: New Job, New Boss, 12 Weeks to Get... →
Excellent resource.
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund →
We don’t like to sit on these ideas, though, because we really want people to work on them. So we’re trying something new: we’re going to list some of the ideas we’ve been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for ideas are the most useful form anyway, because imaginative people will take them in directions we didn’t...
ChangeThis :: View Proposals →
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language →
smile!
Qik and Twitter goes to Congress and causes major... →
jsontime - the web service →
The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django →
Code for a Django tumble-log.
How to sell your software for $20,000 →
…from someone who did it.
ChangeThis Newsletter →
Some of the coolest, free, business-related ebooks available.
then again, sleep is highly overrated. wonder how long i could go without it ‘til i start seeing faeries end running from shadows..?
I’m getting sleepy, time’s up. Unplug the computer, and head to bed.
Good night, http://tinyurl.com/5t3pkw
just got back from the dark knight. heath ledger rocks. but my ass hurts. it was a bit too long…
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Brain Murmurs →
Mentat is wicked cool.
:: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS... →
I hear a lot of people recommending the “skinny controller, fat model” approach to Rails development. I’m all for keeping controllers simple, but who wants a fat model? If your editor slows down while loading up your model files, I have some advice: put your models on a diet.
I am one of the #pradipta 416! http://tinyurl.com/6apwva … spam has never been more fun.
Pradipta’s Rolodex: Laughs from the Internets |... →
Are you one of the chosen few? →
This thing has legs.
“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in...”
– Al Gore