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Experimental Extensions We'd Like to Go Mainstream [Experimental Firefox Extensions] (44)
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Finding new and useful Firefox extensions is a passion of ours, but sometimes we run across extensions adorning the daunting "Experimental" moniker at the Firefox Add-ons web site. We try to avoid these extensions as much as possible because they haven't been vetted by the folks at Mozilla, but even more importantly, we hate requiring our readers to register and sign into a web site just to download an extension. Most of the extensions that ...Shared by Adi Gaskell (20) Arijit Das (476) arnet (13) ArpitNext (20) bittin (289) Ch (97) Chris (29) David (32) David Machiavello (29) engelke830 (23) Fellipe (5) George Lee (15) Hannibal (41) Heather (21) Henry Webb (20) Ibrahim Cesar (21) JAFO (62) James Spinosa (56) Jason David Pelker (52) JBu92 (50) Jojo (91) keith (85) Kelly Bolinger (33) Kevin McAfee (24) Krazy (468) Matteo Starri (22) Mona N (120) mrshl (20) Paul (23) Raj Dandekar (9) rowlikeagirl (43) Saad (32) Sam Garcia (5) Scott Rollins (46) Scribeoflight (82) Selwin (54) Shankar Ganesh (75) Taylor Carrigan (5) Ted (21) Tim (86) Tommy Inglis (56) Trey (22) WindPower (67) ZayneHumphrey (16)Contribute comment -
Apple "Notebook" event is on, October 14th! (79)
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Filed under: Laptops The rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in San Francisco next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops... and you know we'll be there live! Will this be an unveiling of a whole new form factor? Will this "Brick" mystery be put to bed? Will they come in rainbow colors? Tune in to find out. Permalink ...Shared by adam (1018) Adam (24) Adam Bullock (4) Adam Melancon (23) Adrian (54) André R. Hood (54) andrew (32) Andrew Rodrigues (38) Andrew Wilkinson (8) Angus (32) AnthonyB415 (18) Aractor (24) atsushi tsunoda (22) Badam (94) Ben S (36) Bjarne Mogstad (3) Brajeshwar (31) Brent (12) Bret M (29) Brian Megilligan (6) Bryan Garcia (21) Caleb Cherry (4) Chris Coleman (19) Chris Escalante (18) Chris Stamas (18) Corris (15) Dave C. (16) Dru Kelly (86) Dudu P (39) Eric (41) Fredrik Carlsson (22) Gary (22) George Perham (11) Jack (4) Jane Burt (12) Jared Mehle (7) Jay Barcelo (14) Joey Foxenberger (63) John Holzer (25) John W (25) Jonathan (81) Joshua (12) justin (19) Justin (2) kamandal (681) karli (11) Kirby Witmer (31) Kyle Bamford (47) Laughing Squid (27) Lee (30) Lelah (4) lovemorgul (699) Matthew (34) Melfi (33) nuin (21) Oliver Boryszewski (14) Paulo (9) Rex (150) Rob (49) Rolf (46) Royce Hsu (1) Ryan Grier (32) Sig Gislason (30) Sprog (18) Stephen C (4) Steve (57) subbu (41) Sun Tzu (701) Taylor (21) Ted (21) Thomas (28) Tim Howard (13) Toby (228) Tommy (6) Travis (43) Tyler Robb (4) Vincenzo (75) wcaw (78) William Z. (27)- Rolf said: New MacBook Air please.
- Bret M said: New notebook computers coming soon...
- AnthonyB415 said: Time for Anthony to get a new notebook..
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jRails: Drop-in jQuery Support for Rails (2)
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Hampton Catlin's recent Ruby Survey (results here) showed that more Ruby and Rails developers prefer the jQuery Javascript framework to the Prototype framework that comes with Rails. jQuery has become popular across the board, but is unlikely to be included with Rails any time soon due to 37signals' support for the library. jRails to the rescue! jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype and script.aculo.us on Ruby on Rails. It provides you will all ...Shared by Ted (21) willdeluca (44)Contribute comment -
6 Emails You Get When Your Company Is About to Go Under (21)
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"Restructuring," "Redistributing," "Reshuffling."Shared by Adam R. (29) Ahsan Navid Hussain (450) Alex France (155) Andrew Dillion-Walshe (1) Ben (21) Brian (18) Daniel (267) Eric Hill (10) Gary R. hess (17) Gaston Annebicque (6) George Brickner (175) hikbi (174) Matt Chandler (25) Michael Mior (79) Monster UK (2) Razzu (36) Scott Orwig (18) Shawn Hill (137) shor (1) Steven Bullen (303) Ted (21)Contribute comment -
How to Succeed at Capacity Planning Without Really Trying : An Interview with Flickr's John Allspaw on His New Book (5)
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Dream with me a little bit. Your startup becomes wildly successful. Hard work and random chance have smiled on you. To keep flirting with lady luck your system must scale. But how much stuff (space, hardware, software, etc) will you need to handle the growth, when will you need it and when will you need more? That's what Flickr's John Allspaw helps you figure out in his ground breaking new book on SCALABILITY (horizontal or ...Contribute comment -
Rails on EC2: A Tale of Perseverance (Part One?) (2)
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One of my pet projects has been getting a lot of "yeah but can it really scale?" naysaying of late so I decided to find out if my on-paper theory translated to a real-world infrastructure. Essentially I need to take my all-on-one-server Rails application and split it up into several segregated modules across several servers: the main web site, main database, slave databases, web services layer,Shared by Pickles (16) Ted (21)Contribute comment - October 04,2008 Office Strategies (1)
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Amazon's Kindle 2 in the wild? - Engadget (23)
onFiled under: Handhelds So much for Amazon's attempts to quell Kindle 2 rumors, eh? Talk of a replacement (or a pair of replacements) for Amazon's popular -- but very oddly-styled -- e-reader has been in the mix seemingly since the first model started shipping, and Boy Genius Report has scored shots of something that certainly looks like it could be in the legitimate pipeline. The revised device appears to address complaints over the original's look ...Shared by Aaron R (151) AgentMunroe (5) Ben (22) Bo Stern (25) Chris K (60) Chris White (8) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (94) Juan Diego (68) Justin (29) Kevin (36) Lloyd Doppler (23) MajorNelsonJR (16) Mick (49) OcellNuri (26) Pat (19) Patrick Thornton (19) richhand (36) RJO (60) shark (29) Ted (21) Thai (5) Tim (63) trinkers (15)Explore read four notes
- Justin said: Granted I've never seen one in person, but based on these pics I think I like the original design better. The new model looks really boring.
- Ben said: Huh. Looks like a giant first-gen iPod with a keyboard.
- Patrick Thornton said: This is a train wreck.
- AgentMunroe said: Honestly, I think I like the look of the first Kindle more...
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Sony announces PRS-700 Reader with touchscreen (16)
onFiled under: Handhelds Sony's plan to launch an updated Reader today wasn't exactly a secret, but there are still some surprises to the new PRS-700 -- particularly the new six-inch touchscreen E-Ink display. Page turning is now accomplished by a swipe motion with faster refreshes, and there's a stylus and on-screen keyboard for searching and note-taking -- plus an LED reading light (not a backlight) for reading in the dark. Apart from that, it's basically ...Shared by Bill Blaney (45) C.K. (109) Cheryl (38) Chris (20) Harper (101) Joe Fernandez (20) joekwon (20) Matt Dickman (22) Mycroft (15) nicolas.boullosa (61) nkronberg (73) pt9386 (49) Radek Pilich (50) Raphael Chaib (39) Ted (21) Yi Kai (14)Contribute comment
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A peek at the inner workings of Hashrocket (7)
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Recently the folk over at Hashrocket had another one of their famed 3-2-1 Launches - this time inviting as guest stars Tammer Saleh and Joe Ferris of another renowned Rails shop Thoughtbot. The application they worked on is called spot.us and is a community funded reporting tool. The interesting thing about this project was that the source is freely available on Github for any Joe Bloggs to pour over (link). Not only that, but the ...- MDWeezer said: Fantastic.
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Two improvements to your Capfiles (3)
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I have lately started using a pattern that has become quite common among capistrano users: setting the server names and locations in a task. Doing this allows you to have multiple deployment environments, like development, staging, production, and so on. desc "deploy to development environment" task :development do set :deploy_to, "/var/apps/#{application}" role :web, "servername.mikamai.com", :primary => true role :app, "servername.mikamai.com", :primary => true role :db, "servername.mikamai.com", :primary => true set :user, "username" set :password, "secr3t" ...Contribute comment -
Joyent - Cloud Computing Built on Accelerators (4)
onKent Langley was kind enough to create a profile template for Joyent, Kent's new employer. Joyent is an infrastructure and development company that has put together a multi-site, multi-million dollar hosting setup for their own applications and for the use of others. Joyent competes with the likes of Amazon and GoGrid in the multi-player cloud computing game and hosts Bumper Sticker: A 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook http://rubyonrail...> http://rubyonrail... App. The template was originally ...Contribute comment
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Web Inspector: Looking good, and profiling nicely (19)
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The WebKit Web Inspector has been redesigned and improved, and it looks great. Here is a brief look into the features. Redesigned First and foremost, the Web Inspector is now sporting a new design that organizes information into task-oriented groups — represented by icons in the toolbar. The toolbar items (Elements, Resources, Scripts, Profiles and Databases) are named after the fundamental items you will work with inside the respective panels. Console The Console is now ...Shared by aemkei (32) andrin (22) aNTwNHs (77) atul (153) Brian Landau (21) caoxg (30) Compuwizard123 (40) Doug Stewart (62) elsterama (45) guttertec (23) IceskYsl (34) koovus (38) luxus (21) Mike F (651) pablo (22) Pyrosuke (40) small (30) Stavros (25) Ted (21)- luxus said: ja sieht wirklich gut aus :D muss ich mal testen .. ausgiebig
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This is a BAD BAILOUT. YES, I'm UNLEASHING THE FUCKING FURY! (8)
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But at this part I did not lol: Congratulations taxpayers! Your senators have ridden to the rescue and approved a piece of legislation that should ungum the credit crunch. You'll now be able to buy that car. In the process, your lawmakers also approved extended tax breaks for the film industry in Puerto Rico, and for the makers of "certain wooden arrows designed for use by children." I kid you not. I won't bore you ...Shared by Brandon Fuller (10) Mark (21) Oren (24) Pierre Phaneuf (16) Rizzn (74) Rob Schonberger (22) Sean Blakey (24) Ted (21)- Pierre Phaneuf said: Wow, that's really wacky.
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