Tag: news
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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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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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Back To Business School
I started MBA 590 tonight; the next stepping stone to my next degree, which I should complete at University of Phoenix early next year. Considering I couldn’t even start on the coursework until 9PM, it’s going to be a busy year. 😐
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New OpenRain Homepage / IE Woes
We never spent a ton of time on the OpenRain homepage, so we decided to shake it up today in response to user feedback. I wanted to make our proposition clearer while keeping the existing brief one-page style, and add some awesome sauce yet stay business friendly. Check it. As usual, a significant percentage of…
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Welcomed To The RRoD Club
I powered on the ol’ Xbox 360 this weekend to finish Mass Effect, a feat which I was especially pumped about since I’ve been told I’m extremely close. Much to my surprise, Microsoft had left a super special, albeit slightly belated Christmas surprise up in my tubes.Awesome!! Thanks, Redmond!!
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Rails 2.0: Gmail SMTP With ActionMailer
Marc just checked in a nifty little Rails 2.0 plugin to the OpenRain public subversion repository which encapsulates the voodoo required to use a Gmail SMTP server with an otherwise ordinary ActionMailer configuration. Gmail requires TLS security, which is why this is useful. Grab the plugin for your Gmail-mooching Rails 2.0 site, here. Note: I…
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In The News
OpenRain affiliate img surf‘s Mugr facial recognition services have been receiving some press lately. Here’s the lowdown of what’s been happening.. ReadWriteWeb.com article, by Josh Catone. AltSearchEngines.com comparison, by Charles Knight. RoughType.com article, by Nicolas Carr. Official Mugr blog, by the Mugr team. Public Mugr developer support Google group. Mad props to the Mugr team…
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Sun Introduces Non-Native (Linux) Zone Support
The “What’s New” document for Solaris 10 8/07 states the update “..includes the tools necessary to install a CentOS 3.5 to 3.8 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.5 to 3.8 inside a non-global zone. Machines running the Solaris OS in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode can execute 32-bit Linux applications.” Additionally, “DTrace can now be…
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Programming Erlang Now Shipping, v1.1 PDF Released
The Pragmattic Programmers are now shipping print copies of Programming Erlang: an outstanding introduction to the interesting new Erlang language for concurrent programming. Peeps who bought the PDF can download v1.1 here.