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19 Nov 08

Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position

Ocarina, named after an ancient flute-like wind instrument, lets people play haunting, flute-like songs by blowing into the iPhone microphone and hitting the virtual buttons.

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iphone appstore rubyonrails

Create lean and mean RSS feeds with Feed Rinse | Webware - CNET

As Martin over at Ghacks points out, you could accomplish a similar feat on Yahoo's Pipes service, although I found Feed Rinse to be dramatically easier to use.

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rss pipes rubyonrails

Turn your jQuery code into a richer, unit testable, plugin — onenaught.com

By unit testing with QUnit, I find I often need to trigger additional events or add additional code from within the plugin so the test can be meaningful.

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jQuery rubyonrails

Code on the Road: CloudFront Performance Numbers

CloudFront, however, is amazingly well tuned. That 46ms time remained constant within 2ms every single time I loaded that file. In other words, CloudFront is so much faster and more consistent that there is simply no reason not to use it for all your S3 c

www.expatsoftware.com/...front-performance-numbers.html - Preview

s3 aws cdn cloudfront performance rubyonrails

Anecdotes - Joel on Software - Outliers

This review captures what's been driving me crazy over the last year... an unbelievable proliferation of anecdotes disguised as science, self-professed experts writing about things they actually know nothing about, and amusing stories disguised as metapho

www.joelonsoftware.com/...18.html - Preview

writing rubyonrails

BestCovery

Looking for the best product? There are lots of choices, but only one can be the very best. Let our experts instantly show you the top picks for your needs. Bestcovery is the fastest, easiest way to find the best of everything.

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crowdmind rubyonrails

18 Nov 08

HotChalk Learning Management System Connecting Teachers, Students and Parents

The HotChalk Learning Environment is a collaborative online resource for
K-12 teachers, students and parents. It provides an easy-to-use learning
management system (LMS) accessible by any Internet browser, a media-rich
library of teacher-contributed lesso

www.hotchalk.com/index_new.html - Preview

e-learning lms rubyonrails

Texas gov. intercedes in failed IBM project | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com

Texas Governor, Rick Perry, ordered state agencies to stop transferring data to IBM to prevent data loss on a failing project. Texas also fined IBM $900,000 for failing to meet data backup requirements specified in the state’s $863M outsourcing contract.

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outsourcing rubyonrails

A cup of...: Hibernate Caches

Hibernate comes with three different caching mechanisms - first level, second level and query cache. Truly understanding how the Hibernate caches work and interact with each other is important when you need to increase performance - just enabling caching

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hibernate cache performance rubyonrails

Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6

What's Wrong With IE6?
This is a development blog, so I shouldn't have to explain this to anyone here, but off top of my head (this is a small part of a very large list):

1. Lack of support for current standards for HTML markup, CSS, etc
2. Support

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ie6 rubyonrails

10 Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers - Six Revisions

10 Adobe AIR applications perfect for web designers. Graphics designers, interaction designers, and web developers might also find this collection useful.

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adobeintegratedruntime rubyonrails

TDD Like You've Never Seen it Before | Javalobby

Test-driven development, or TDD, consists of the following loop:

1. Write a failing test case that encodes some behavior you need.
2. Write just enough code to pass the test case in the simplest possible way.
3. Refactor to improve the design of

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tdd rubyonrails

FancyZoom meet jQuery // Ordered List // We Make The Web Beautifully Simple

This will add the Zoom Effect to any a tag classed with zoom, and will show content relating to the id referenced in the href of the a tag.

orderedlist.com/...fancyzoom-meet-jquery - Preview

jQuery zoom rubyonrails

jQuery, MooTools, the Ajax Experience, Programming to the Pattern, and What Really Makes One Framework Different From Another » Clientcide (Formerly CNET’s Clientside)

I just got back from the Ajax Experience in Boston and I’ve had a lot of stuff on my mind.
First, I must first attest that hands down, jQuery was the most popular and well represented framework there.

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jQuery ria rubyonrails

Learning in Maine: Web 3.0 - The Semantic Web Cometh

Will the Semantic Web fully arrive? Absolutely, not due to forces of digital determinism, but because of what MIT computer scientist Michael Dertouzos called “the ancient human in each of us.” (4) As ancient human beings, we want to develop tools that hel

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e-learning semanticweb rubyonrails

Tips and tricks to turn you into a faster, smarter web designer | News | TechRadar UK

3. Hone things down
If a client wants a 50-page site and you can see a way of doing it in 10, tell them and convince them to do so. Smaller sites are typically more creative, and offer more clarity and focus.

www.techradar.com/...er-smarter-web-designer-473442 - Preview

webdesign rubyonrails

Sumedha's blog: Sample Ruby Web Service Client

WSF/Ruby is a web services framework for Ruby. It can be used to write & consume web services in Ruby. Following example demonstrates a complete client code for accessing a web service located @ http://mooshup.com/services/hiranya/oxygentanknews & printin

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wst rest client ruby rubyonrails

4 Flash Games to Help Educate Your Kids | Geekdad from Wired.com

There are possibly millions of flash-based games out there. And, this short list is a way of sharing a few, but also putting the call out to GeekDad readers. What flash games do you play with your children?

blog.wired.com/...flash-games-to.html - Preview

flashgames e-learning rubyonrails

Silverlight Toolkit - Home

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient

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silverlight ria rubyonrails

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