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Capistrano was originally written to ease the pain of deploying Rails applications. Although it can be (and is) used for a lot more than that now, Rails application deployment is still the primary way that most people use Capistrano, at least initially.
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In an eerie way, Chris Rock innovates like Amazon does. Amazon led by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has continuously used experiments to identify unique growth opportunities beyond the company's core book business – such as the Kindle, Amazon stores, and elastic cloud computing.
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FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
The extension's core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.
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Harper Reed … saw every bus, everywhere, forevermore. And he wanted that data. “The power is not the mashup. It’s the data. The data is the answer,” says Harper. So he set out to separate the data from the mashup. He used Firebug, the nifty Firefox add-on, to monitor that network traffic (the communication that goes between the browser window and the server) that was driving the data to the page. This way, he found the URLs of the “endpoints” … that control the entire Bus Tracker system.
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With iplotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.
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sudo find / -name my-large.cnf -print
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WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content.
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Using jQuery to parse XML is vaguely reminiscent of LINQ in the recent .NET frameworks. That's a good thing, since LINQ made parsing XML in .NET vastly easier than previous techniques. With jQuery, when you receive XML from a callback, you're not actually getting raw text, you're actually getting a DOM (document object model) that jQuery can traverse very quickly and efficiently to give you the data you need.
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The microprinter is an experiment in physical activity streams and notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web. I use it for things like reminders, notifications, and my day at-a-glance, but anything that can be injected from the web and suits text only, short format messaging, will work.
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There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. Here are 10 of the most useful ways to start turning your site readers (or your client's customer base) into Twitter followers, and vice versa.
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Rhodes – developed by Rhomobile – is an intriguing framework of Ruby interpreters that can be used to develop native applications for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM (Blackberry) and Symbian smartphone platforms (with Android support to come). Last month, Werner Schuster (of InfoQ) wrote a basic roundup of how Rhodes works.
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# cghttpd is a minimal Web server best understood as an experiment in use of asynchronous facilities available in the 2.6 series of Linux kernels.
# darkhttpd is a fast, single-threaded HTTP/1.1 server.
# Gatling is designed for high performance. Features include FTP, IPv6, virtual hosting, CGI, and so on.
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Hit the letter z, or click the word zoom to enable or disable zooming. Hold down shift while typing a number to replace the previous number (U.S. keyboards only).
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twitter super bowl mashup
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It's a GreaseMonkey script, written by 'Shaun Friedle', that automatically solves captchas provided by the site Megaupload.
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Having an effective call to action is an essential part of any website. A call to action is not just limited to ecommerce sites. Every website should have an objective it wants users to complete whether it is filling in a contact form, signup for a newsletter or volunteering their time.
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IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out – it's free!
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In the past, developers would have to turn away from promotions to management (and sometimes raises) so they could remain in development. These days, they find other companies to work for that will pay them more and allow them to continue to develop (but that’s a story for another day). The problem exacerbates itself. The more developers steer clear of management positions, the unhappier software development teams will be with the candidates that become their managers.
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The SDK is just a waste of space on your hard drive unless you know the programming language associated with the iPhone. To program on the iPhone, you will need some Cocoa (Objective-C) knowledge. There are a ton of resources available online and in book form — I'll cover these and more in the next post in the series. If you already know a programming language like C/C++/Java, then you should just need a refresher course on the classes, methods, and basic expressions.
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# Firemath is free software published under GPL v3.
# Supports most MathML 2 presentation markup elements.
# Requires hardly any knowledge on MathML.
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FireMath, an addon for Firefox, provides a WYSIWYG MathML editor.
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There are many things to look for in a content management system but here are a few of the more important ones:
1. Quick and easy installation
2. Simple administration interface
3. Quick and easy extension of CMS for extra functionality
4. Simple template manipulation
5. Helpful user community
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Jim Balsillie, calls the post-launch scramble part of the "new reality" of making complex cellphones in large volumes.
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The Socialtext collaboration platform allows organizations of all sizes to collaborate faster, decide faster and change faster. The more aware your people are of what colleagues are doing, the broader your people’s participation in conversations, and the more easily new insights spread across your organization, the faster your business can respond to changing customer expectations and business conditions.
