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Cool Daily Links
SearchMe.com :: Google search meets Apple’s “Cover Flow” for the web. Smells hot to me. iPhone SDK Gets Interface Builder :: Now it’s actually fun to learn about native iPhone application development. Upcoming Free iPhone Development Webcast Monoprice.com :: You need to buy your random cables from these folks. I started using them last year…
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Redmine w/OS X OpenLDAP, Parallels Server and JumpBox
OpenRain used a slew of crappy Trac sites for issue tracking until we switched to Redmine several days ago. The decision came because.. Redmine can authenticate off LDAP with trivial configuration. Redmine has multi-project support out-of-the-box. Redmine has some nifty Gantt chart and calendaring schwag and is generally better. Parallels Server (for OS X) is…
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Review: Why Army of Two (360) Sucks
The overall aiming mechanic is *very* poor. I don’t expect PC-level ease, but at least something on par with the Tom Clancy games is necessary to make a console shooter fun. Both me and my buddy commented on this suckage right from the start. AoT also suffers from poor pacing. Remember how in Serious Sam…
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Debugging JavaScript With Safari
I usually use FireBug and other FireFox-based tools for troubleshooting JavaScript issues, but never found a solid way to approach it in Safari, my primary browser. It turns out that the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari’s core) also come with a great utility called Drosera.app, which allows you to attach to a running WebKit process…
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Marc Chung on Amazon Web Services
Mad props to fellow OpenRain’r Marc Chung for an excellent AWS presentation at this months Phoenix Rails meeting. Follow-up links.. Full session audio in Rubyology episode #59, courtesy Chris Matthieu. Slides. Marc’s blog, recap and company. Derek’s recap. Great job, Marc!
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Rails 2.0: selenium-on-rails routes.rb fix
When I updated a few projects to Rails 2.0 last year, selenium-on-rails stopped working … some issue with routing and the lame way selenium-on-rails adds its routes. I didn’t spend the time to figure out exactly what the routing problem was, but did manage to hack a quick fix into routes.rb. This feels like the…
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RailsConf 2008 Registration Now Open
Register here. Fresh from my inbox…
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Mac Users: Buy This Now
https://www.macheist.com/buy/invite/94211 The latest MacHeist bundle: $50 for 12 apps, the most notable being Pixelmator, CSSEdit and Snapz Pro X. I picked up the 3-pack bundle for $100 and a total of 36 license key. 4 days left. w00ties!
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Welcomed To The RRoD Club, Part 2
The RRoD 360 repair process has been straightforward so far. (After all, Microsoft has certainly had an ample volume of opportunities to improve it.) The online repair form was straightforward, and my empty pre-paid shipping box arrived yesterday. Everything needed to package the console for return was included: a plastic bag for the console, padded foam, large…
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Writing Good Error Messages
I received this little note from my Mac today. This made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside despite the interruption of my work because it satisfies my general criteria for displaying error messages to users. A graphical severity indicator is given so I know whether or not to care. It provides a succinct, human-readable…
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