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timeago: a jQuery plugin Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps New to Git? Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with Knol is open to everyone Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. The new kid on the block - Drizzle Faster, leaner and designed with the original goals of ease-of-use, reliability and performance, Drizzle will make an impact in those organizations that are seeking a viable database storage solution for large scalable applications. Dude, That Is So Fringe The state of tech, charted over time, is an N-dimensional graph. The fringe is the ragged edges of that graph, the weird bits hanging off the edge. Weirdos with weird visions doing weird stuff that few besides them understand. Here's the Gist of it Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund ...we're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms... The Ruby on Rails I18n core api Future versions of Rails will ship with a minimalistic, yet powerful I18n/L10n api baked in. The following post is about technical api and implementation details. Nested Model Mass Assignment Nested models (nested forms by another name) describe the scenario when you want to create and modify values of nested attributes through a containing model. iui User Interface (UI) Library for Safari development on iPhone Bit.ly We've been waiting for a more intelligent URL shortening service to hit the market but even in our most ambitious visions we haven't seen something like this coming. New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock “You got a menu without anything on it?” she asked her friend. “Can I have yours?” Blake Mizerany of Sinatra joins Heroku I'm pleased to announce that Blake Mizerany has joined the Heroku development team. Blake is a Ruby hotshot best known as the creator of the microframework Sinatra. Finding A Perfect Match We’re excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. Why programmers should play Go While chess is quite complex and rich, such that it took a 30-node supercomputer to defeat the reining chess champion, no computer comes close to defeating even a skilled amateur Go player. Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark We’re going to use this money towards making Ruby the platform of choice for cloud computing and web development in startups and the enterprise alike. How 37signals built buzz out of the gate Here are a few of the key non-client projects that enabled us to build up an audience before we launched Basecamp: Testing is overrated We need manual testing, peer reviews, usability testing and developer testing if we want to produce high-quality software. Force new window links to open in new tabs in Safari In the latest Safari 3.1, Apple finally added a (hidden) preference to do just this. WordPress To Disable Remote Access The WordPress developers have decided that, starting with WordPress 2.6, access to the XMLRPC and AtomPub-based remote publishing interfaces will be disabled by default. run_later in Merb This very simple method just captures a block and runs it in a worker thread that is started at runtime. This should allow you to run anything you like sequentially in the background of your application. Ten Big New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard Snow Leopard aims below the bloat to accommodate the coming wave of SSD-based systems. In the latest build, sources say Apple’s own apps are losing weigh dramatically across the board. Nomadic Programming Recently, I’ve started doing what I’ve termed “nomadic programming.” Namely, spending the day roaming between various wi-fi hotspots instead of working from home. Rails 2.1: now with better integrated caching Rails 2.1 has just been out a week and so far something that seems to have passed most people by is that it now includes much better caching capabilities 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make But his most lasting contribution to the business world just may be a list of screw-ups he jotted on the back of a piece of paper. Introducing MagCloud For the last year, I’ve been working with HP Labs on a very cool new project. It’s called MagCloud, and it’s the future of magazine publishing. How to nap A good overview of the best strategies for napping. reddit goes open source When we say 'open-source' we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we're inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site. Sending mail from Rails through Google SMTP I wanted to host my SMTP settings in an external YAML file so I wouldn’t end up checking my username and password into the repository. Converting Videos with Rails So you’ve installed FFMPEG. Now it’s time to move onto converting the video. For this we’re going to be using a couple of plugins. Railsconf Videos Miss Railsconf this year? Thankfully I captured it here in a 36 minute video for you, free of charge.

 

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