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11.16.08 / Speeding Up Rails Development
Jim Neath’s useful tips and tricks to get a jump start on new rails projects. Everything from using a skeleton app to writing your own scaffold generators. But by far the best one is:
Seriously, Just Buy a Fucking Mac
Can’t argue with that now or can you?
(Via Jim Neath.)
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11.14.08 / The New Computer Feeling When Selling a Used Mac
If you’ve ever sold a Mac before, and cleaned installed it for your customer, you have probably had to create the new user(which is awkward), because you had no choice. Turns our there is. As Dan Benjamin point out:
After installation, when you’re prompted to create a new user, just press Command-Q.
Other great tips and tricks when selling a Mac in the link below.
(Via The Narrative.)
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/ Myth #1: Rails is hard to deploy
David Heinemeier Hansson goes myth buster on rails deployment. Got to be honest, it took me a while to appreciate it, but now I think it’s more organized than deploying a php app, thanks to Capistrano. His conclusion:
Rails is no longer hard to deploy. Phusion Passenger has made it ridiculously easy.
Tried it last week, and I have to agree.
(Via Loudthinking .)
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11.10.08 / 11 Twitter business models
They are going to need a business model very, very soon. They have a lot of revenue options and have enough people to try a few, and see what works best. My favorite:
Sell access to either the Twitter API or “firehose.”
(Link Webware.com.)
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11.07.08 / Microsoft considers adopting WebKit for Internet Explorer?
That would really be the most embarrassing thing ever for Microsoft. Hopefully it will happen. No matter if they stick to IE 8 or not, they need to do something about IE 6. I will never understand what’s taken them so long to upgrade people to IE 7.
(Via AppleInsider.)
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11.06.08 / The $700 Billion Bailout and Small Businesses
Aaron Hillegas from the Big Nerd Ranch on how the $700 Billon bailout directly affects him money. Most people complain about it and generalize that the tax payers will pay for it, but never explain how. Find out.
(Link Aaron Hillegas.)
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10.30.08 / Comments on the New Cocoa Finder
Everyone out there with a stiffy for the “rewritten in Cocoa” Snow Leopard Finder needs to get a grip. Cocoa is just an API. It is not some sort of magic technology where you just sprinkle a ton of square brackets in your source code and you instantly get a better UI.
From a user’s perspective, the Snow Leopard Finder is going to be pretty much the exact same turd we’ve had in Mac OS X all along.
Brent Simmons three years ago:
But Cocoa can’t, on its own, fix problems with a flawed design.
The problem with the Finder is really a people problem: it will get fixed if and when somebody with the authority, resources, and will to fix it appears.
Cocoa is no magic bullet—there aren’t any magic bullets.
A Cocoa Finder is a nice idea, but what we really need is something like Pathfinder to be the default Finder. Supporting Tabs, would be my most desired feature for a new Finder.
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/ How Low Can Moto Go?
Interesting numbers from Motorola handset business. Another example of what happens when you stop innovation. Apple has had 10 years of steady innovation. That is not easy to maintain, and why Apple is so great.
(Via GigaOM.)
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10.15.08 / VisualHub is “Stayin’ Alive”
One of my favorite Mac apps(a video converter) has gone from dead to Open Source in the blink of an eye. Taking a new name and a much needed interface lift VisulHub(TechSpansion closed two weeks ago) will now be called FilmRedux. I’ve downloaded, compiled and tested the new app and couldn’t get it to add a video, but the interface is really good. It is far from being ready to the public, but I assure you that it will, thanks to the apps fanatic community.
(Via ArsTechnica .)
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10.14.08 / Ryan Kuder on Bootstrapping your Startup
As a guest writer in the ZDNet blogs:
Don’t quit[your dream]. You may have to delay things for a while, but keep reminding yourself why you started your company in the first place.
Startups must go back to basic old school business. Build a product, get money from you customers, start process again. No more getting huge wads of cash, while “growing a user base” type startups. Leaner and more revenue efficient companies will come as a result of the depression. No more partying likes it’s 1999.
(Via ZDNet Blogs.)