Have you check out Google Sets? It’s great. I really don’t know how long it’s been around, but it’s pretty slick. If you were looking for server names, like in this serverfault question, you’ll realize the power of Google Sets. Go there, and try out a few things, like characters from Star Wars. Enter in Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Oh look, the rest of the cast, and even some obscure ones! So the next time you need a set of things, like for a ...
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software development with some really amazing hairAuthSMTP
Need to send email from your web app? Don’t want to use Gmail because of limits? Okay I’m not about to break into a marketing campaign, because I just found the website, but it looks like AuthSMTP solves the problem. I literally just discovered this place, but you can send up to 1000 emails a month (100MB data), for $24USD a year. Not too bad. You can send with your own from address, etc, etc, and all the things you’d expect (at first glance a...
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Service Level Agreements. Who cares?
More and more people seem to be ever so concerned about the Service Level Agreement. Okay. Actually it’s more like companies, and the people responsible for picking services. If you don’t know, a service level agreement is basically a statement by a company providing a service that their service will be available and usable a certain amount of time. As an example from the CVSDude website: 99.9% Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA). While all ...
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Post Twitter to identi.ca
So I signed up at identi.ca a while ago, but never really did anything with it. I also found Yahoo Pipes a while ago, and put it on my Todo List to look at, but that was about it. I don’t know why I didn’t think to look at it to do this. Anyway. Pipes lets you manipulate pretty much anything, RSS feeds being one of them. You can feed things around, or pipe them, and alter contents, do whatever. After a little Google work, I found this pipe tha...
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respond_to with respond_glue: override respond_to
So check this: you have a nice little Rails app. You have some stuff for a JSON API type system. You’ve got an STI setup with the Widget model class and the more concrete FancyWidget and WeirdWidget classes. You’ve got a WidgetsController, and the corresponding FancyWidgetsController and WeirdWidgetsController Yay. It works. You can deal with both types of Widgets using JSON. Now you need an HTML interface to it. Fine, you can just throw in a ...
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Atwood's Law Misunderstood
Jeff Atwood, of Coding Horror and stackoverflow fame made a blog post entitled All Programming is Web Programming Go read it, and come back, I’ll wait. Okay back? Good I was originally just going to comment but then I realized the scroll bar couldn’t get any smaller on my browser and the page size was probably close to some sort of limit, so that idea went out the window. So here goes… First off, Michael Braude seems a bit off his rocker. A fe...
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How many clicks does it take?
I signed up for gdgt despite the fact that I whined about it not supporting OpenID. Here I am. Wee. The first thing I tried to do when I got there was add a gadget to my have list. Makes sense right? That’s what you do. So I find the Dell 6400, and…there’s no ‘Have it!’ button. Hmm…well maybe if I…oh. There’s an ‘add to list’ button. Okay, that makes sense, since they have 3 lists: have, want, had. So I click that, and now I have to select a ...
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Drastically speed up web browsing
Uninstall Firefox Install Chrome There is no step 3 I’m seriously getting sick and tired of Firefox. Chrome for Linux can’t come any faster. When even with only 5 tabs open, it eats over 600 MB, and frequently fades out to the standard “application not responding” state. It can’t even switch tabs without lagging. If I have a video playing in one tab, it frequently hangs when I switch tab, or open a new tab. Pain. Chrome is just better, an...
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