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For the past several weeks, I’ve been working on a free, open source, online book on Git called the Git Community Book that I’m hoping to turn into a great one-stop resource for learning Git. The idea is that we have a super solid Git resource linked right off the Git homepage that people can get most of the answers they need in a single, easy to browse place, from super-beginner to super-advanced. I’ve taken ...
Ruby Security quick guide (9)
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I’ve looked around a bit and it seems that there is no real good guide to security programming in Ruby. Neither is there any book available (although Maik Schmidts book Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails will be the best reference once it arrives). The aim for this blog entry will be to note a few things you often would like to do, and how you can do it with Ruby. The focus will be ...
40 Eye-Opening OpenID Sites and Services (46)
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Doriano "Paisano" Carta via Mashable! shared by 4 people OpenID support continues to spread throughout the Web ecosystem and new names are added to the list of sites that support OpenID all the time. Since the release of OpenID 2.0, which includes better security features, OpenID has gained major traction as the single sign-on standard. Its biggest benefit being tremendous reduction in the number of login names and passwords that you have to manage. In ...
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OpenID support continues to spread throughout the Web ecosystem and new names are added to the list of sites that support OpenID all the time. Since the release of OpenID 2.0, which includes better security features, OpenID has gained major traction as the single sign-on standard. Its biggest benefit being tremendous reduction in the number of login names and passwords that you have to manage. In addition, great time savings when registering at new sites. ...
Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live! (26)
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Amazon today unleashed the next EC2 feature: ‘SAN storage in the cloud’, aka EBS or Elastic Block Store. Of course RightScale is ready and supports all the features of EBS in the dashboard plus some extra goodies. The official information about EBS is found in … I have written before about how EBS really revolutionizes EC2 and enables usage patterns that any big-iron SAN user would die for. Now it’s time to look at some ...
Most iPhone Apps Are Failing To Leverage The Network Effect (38)
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I’m seeing a trend as I continue to download and test many of the 1,500+ and growing iPhone applications currently available on iTunes: Few of them are really taking advantage of the network effect to build any kind of competitive barrier to entry. Some apps are safe because they are simply iPhone versions of their normal web service. Google and Yelp are two examples out of hundreds of applications that are simply marking their territory ...
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Rahim said:
Note to self: write an entertaining game that's easy to pick up (maybe some type of lobby system for finding players) and play (no complicated controls) with others (that have iPhones) and doesn't require a lot of time (games should last less than 10 minutes). Perfect for when you're waiting in a line for a movie...
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I've got to agree with TC on this one; I've often wondered why there aren't more iPhone apps that can do what Twinkle does. If you haven't heard of Twinkle and you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, it's Twitter with social networking. Once the Twinkle app is loaded to your i-device, you can discover others Twittering near you. Recently, I set my radius to 50 miles and had a great Twitter exchange with someone on a layover in Houston on his way to San Francisco. I still prefer Hobby Airport to Bush International, but at least I now know that some cool people are making use of its jetways.
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CHC said:
I've been waiting for exactly this! Come on iPhone developers!
Most iPhone Apps Are Failing To Leverage The Network Effect (23)
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I’m seeing a trend as I continue to download and test many of the 1,500+ and growing iPhone applications currently available on iTunes: Few of them are really taking advantage of the network effect to build any kind of competitive barrier to entry. Some apps are safe because they are simply iPhone versions of their normal web service. Google and Yelp are two examples out of hundreds of applications that are simply marking their territory ...
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Dani B. said:
I've got to agree with TC on this one; I've often wondered why there aren't more iPhone apps that can do what Twinkle does. If you haven't heard of Twinkle and you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, it's Twitter with social networking. Once the Twinkle app is loaded to your i-device, you can discover others Twittering near you. Recently, I set my radius to 50 miles and had a great Twitter exchange with someone on a layover in Houston on his way to San Francisco. I still prefer Hobby Airport to Bush International, but at least I now know that some cool people are making use of its jetways.
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CHC said:
I've been waiting for exactly this! Come on iPhone developers!
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Rahim said:
Note to self: write an entertaining game that's easy to pick up (maybe some type of lobby system for finding players) and play (no complicated controls) with others (that have iPhones) and doesn't require a lot of time (games should last less than 10 minutes). Perfect for when you're waiting in a line for a movie...
Building Static Websites with Webby (9)
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Let's suppose that last week your long-lost cousin Bubba called to see if you'd design the website for his new bait and tackle shop. (Hey, he's a progressive redneck.) You figured it would be a quick and easy job—he just needed a few "purty pages to git my new bidness on the World Wide Web." So you hacked together a couple static HTML pages with pictures of Bubba and his charming bait, and uploaded them ...
iPhone Tethering Returns To Apple’s App Store (37)
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You can now grab Nullriver’s NetShare app, which lets you browse the web from your computer using your iPhone’s data connection , from this direct link. You’ll probably want to grab it quickly, as Apple may well pull it down again. Note: You need to use the direct link, the app isn’t showing up in search results. Last night Apple posted the application to its App Store, but quickly pulled it down after only around ...
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Neil said:
Coooool. Now THATs an iPhone app!
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Matt said:
Potentially very useful iPhone app that let's you use your phone as an internet connection for your computer. I don't have an immediate need for it, but good to know its possible...
50+ essays on viral marketing, social network monetization, product design and more (22)
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I finally decided to make a page listing all the reasonable essays I've written over the last 2 years on one page, which you can find here.For the lazy folks, here's a snapshot of the essays as of today (July 30):Viral marketing and user acquisition Adwords is not enough for success on the consumer web Are your SEO efforts working, or failing? Bridging your traffic engine with your revenue engine Facebook viral marketing: When and ...
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Must read on viral marketing, social networks, and ad-supported business models
OpenID and OAuth: Why Should We Care? (51)
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There are a lot of websites that require a username and password. Everyone I talk to hates that fact and typically uses the same username and password for each site. Granted security experts will complain loudly about this, but people do not want to complicate their experiences. Who really wants to remember that they have a different username on several sites and every site has a different password? The few people I know that try ...
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Magnus J said:
Great! Now, please force facebook to embrace OpenID. Facebook is what every "mainstream" users use here in scandinavia.
New to Git? (20)
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Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy – A great guide for beginners GitCasts – Short and sweet screencasts on a variety of Git topics Visual Git Cheat Sheet – Everyone loves to cheat 37signals’ Git Resources – Great lightweight reference to keep handy Git for Computer Scientists – For the hardcore Git Magic – In-depth and hosted right here on GitHub The GitHub Guides ...
iPhone 2.0 Apps: The Social Networking App Comparison (36)
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I’ve spent the past five days testing the iPhone 3G and many of the wonderful applications that have been made available at the App store. Much of this time I focused on the “Social Networking” apps, or the ones that had social networking features. However, I came across a huge problem: without any friends, these applications are rather useless. This is a direct results of the Twitter vs. Plurk vs. Pownce issue: You have to ...
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Like any profession, software development has it's share of oft-forgotten activities that are usually ignored but have a habit of biting back at just the wrong moment. One of these is data migration.Most new software projects involve data that's lived somewhere else and now needs to be moved into the new system once it's live. A system replacement might have to move all the old data, new functionality may lead to data being loaded from ...
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This is a blog post I've had simmering in my brainmeats for well over a year or two. I'm suddenly inspired to break blog-radio-silence and get it out of my head. From Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com: Once this is widely accepted (and I'm sure there are many that would argue with me), the thing that will separate these types of services won't be whether they stay up (ala Twitter), but how fast your ...
Google Talk comes to the iPhone. Death of the text message approaching? (2)
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Google has unveiled a web-based version of its Google Talk instant messaging client specifically built for the iPhone. Quite simply: It’s amazing — but it has limitations. Just as with Google’s other apps built for the iPhone, Google Talk is laid out in a way that is nicely tailored for the device. Its main screen is a list of your contacts’ names, icons (if they have one) and status messages. Each contacts’ area is big ...
Fuzed and EC2 (2)
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First of all, this post is about 2 things that rock. One is Fuzed, the new Erlang web glue that runs Rails on the Erlang-based Yaws web server, put together by Tom Preston Warner and Dave Fayram of Powerset. The other is Amazon EC2, which is a big, sneakily expensive nerd playland. I became interested in Fuzed at the talk I heard on it at RailsConf by Tom and Dave. I downloaded the Fuzed software ...
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