delicious: January 2006 Archives

basic networking application tutorial for ruby

getting science better represented in science fiction, maybe a bit off the mark, people like Greg Egan etc do a good job, but true for films

Review of the film Grizzly Man about Timothy Treadwell by Werner Herzog - sounds like an interesting film about a man trying to live with bears

thoughtful post about python to ruby movement from Ed Dumbill

backup using rsync, sftp and ruby, combined with StrongSpace it should replace .Mac

see how your site / images look to the visually impaired

find that perfect domain name

the design pattern you want to avoid

visual catalog of the music you have in iTunes. Very browsable, you can see the cd covers flicking past.

the gems, not the code

Detailed article on deploying ruby on rails application, plenty of helpful information

How to know you are doing quality work, are you working on the hardest problem in your field, if not why not and more in that vein

A slight kickback to the list ticking GTD approach, find the most important things and concentrate on them. Everything else can go hang, it could be taken too far, as who picks up your mess. However this and the hamming article are good food for thought

tips on using subversion on Tiger

keychain is a command-line tool allowing easy setup of ssh based passwordless access to servers using RSA keys

roles based auth for Ruby on Rails, basic but looks interesting

visual mapping tool, depicting where your site visitors are coming from

I've meant to read the book that this site is based on in the past. My typography and site design has never been strong, so this should help

Atom publishing for Ruby, tryinng this out shortly