September 2008
32 posts
My computer is owned
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MySites: Your Multimedia Desktop for the Web
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: MySites: Your Multimedia Desktop for the Web MySites is a Web desktop that lets you store up to 10 GB of photos, music, videos, and other files that you can easily share. You can embed these items with code on your websites or share direct…
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The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress Over the years, WordPress has consistently proven to be the most popular blogging system out there. Millions upon millions of blogs run on WordPress, and that
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Switching between several Rails versions
Original: FiveRuns Blog. What worked for me:
$ cd /opt && git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git
$ cd /opt/rails
$ git tag # list of possible versions
$ git checkout v1.2.6
$ ruby ./railties/bin/rails ~/Work/my126app
$ rsync --exclude=.git -a . /home/ruby18/my126app/vendor/rails
Sarah Palin's E-Mail
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Sarah Palin’s E-Mail People have been asking me to comment about Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account being hacked. I’ve already written about the security problems with “secret questions” back in 2005:
The point of all these questions is the same: a backup...
Skyfire Mobile Browser Now Open to Everybody
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Skyfire Mobile Browser Now Open to Everybody
After months of private beta, Skyfire, a free mobile browser lauded for offering support for Flash, AJAX, and other goodies generally reserved for PC browsers, has opened its doors to the public. Just in time for the resulting stampede of...
Building a Scalable Architecture for Web Apps
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Building a Scalable Architecture for Web Apps By Bhavin Turakhia CEO, Directi. Covers: * Why scalability is important. Viral marketing can result in instant success. With RSS/Ajax/SOA number of requests grow exponentially with user base. Goal is to build a web 2.0 app that can server...
Python Instant Web Server
cd to a directory and run:
$ python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"
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Glubble: Safe Social Network for the Family
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There
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Apple Recalls All iPhone 3G Power Adapters
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Apple Recalls All iPhone 3G Power Adapters Apple has had a string of bad luck lately. Today, the company announced that it is recalling the power adapters for all iPhone 3Gs sold in the United States, Canada, Japan, and all Latin American countries that use American style plugs....
Cisco Picks Up Jabber for Collaboration, IM
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Cisco Picks Up Jabber for Collaboration, IM Cisco announced today that it has acquired Jabber, an open-source IM and presence protocol used by Google Talk and Gizmo, for an undisclosed sum.Cisco will try to use Jabber as a means of improving…
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Twittermoms Shows Why Twitter Needs Groups
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This is why Twitter needs groups. After only 15 days, mothers are signing up at an astounding rate to Twittermoms.com. According to its founder, the site
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Sugar Inc Skips Ad Network, Launches Blog Platform...
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Sugar Inc Skips Ad Network, Launches Blog Platform Instead Sugar Inc, owner of the popular Sugar blog network that includes PopSugar, is launching a free blogging platform called OnSugar. The Drupal-powered OnSugar platform is designed to be as simple as…
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VirtualBox 2.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free
Panda: Open Source Video Platform For Websites
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Panda: Open Source Video Platform For Websites Panda, an open source project, will let any site owner willing to do a little coding and integration work to allow user video uploads and playback. Think YouTube in a box. The software itself is free…
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Product: Func - Fedora Unified Network Controller
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Product: Func - Fedora Unified Network Controller Func is used to manage a large network using bash or Python scripts. It targets easy and simple remote scripting and one-off tasks over SSH by creating a secure (SSL certifications) XMLRPC API for communication. Any kind of application...
Six Ways to Create Online Social Databases
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Six Ways to Create Online Social Databases There are countless online spreadsheets and word processors these days, but not too many online databases. Sometimes the best way to work with data is naturally within a database. Managing data in a…
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18 Sites for Finding Startup Jobs
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: 18 Sites for Finding Startup Jobs Though it may seem like many of the job opportunities in the United States have dried up as of late, you can find a wealth of job postings on the Web that may be right up your alley. From programmers…
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Git Community Book →
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Qtask: Web-Based Team Collaboration
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Qtask: Web-Based Team Collaboration The new surge in Enterprise 2.0 technologies is giving companies, especially small-to-medium sized businesses, more alternatives when it comes to company intranet portals for team collaboration and…
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"I'm tired, will take a break"
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Bento
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Online file storage and sharing service Box.net is helping to put the
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Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues?
Message from NewsGator subscriber: News Aggregator Post from www.newsgator.com“>NewsGator.com iPhone: Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues? One of my favorite pastimes over the last year or so has been to tear Twitter apart over uptime issues. See, for example, Twitter Suffers Minor Period Of Uptime (my personal favorite), Twitter:…
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“Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.”
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August 2008
19 posts
Local Gems
alias gemi='gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri -y'
export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"
export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
export PATH="$HOME/.gems/bin:$PATH"
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