- Yuil – Google BlogoscopedYuil is “a mashup of Yahoo! search results (using their BOSS platform), presented using the new Cuil look and feel, and running on Google’s App Engine,” as Tyler Hall tells us. (“Just in case things weren’t confusing enough”.)
Classic!!!
- Can Rails Affect Your Business’ Bottom Line? – Ruby on Rails Website Development Blog from Atlantic Dominion SolutionsMeasuring Return on Investment (ROI) is interesting as there are a few approaches, many of which are determined by how a company defines and determines returns and costs.
- Kickfire
This sounds killer: a high-performance database appliance for MySQL. The custom SQL chip uses parallel, pipelined data flow to deliver the power of tens of high-end CPUs. Query performance 10-100X faster than a traditional RDBMS.
(tags: mysql hardware post:tzetzefly) - Streamfile
Simple, clean, and free way to get large files (up to 2MB) to people when you can’t e-mail them a large attachment. File is uploaded to site, where it is available for 24 hours, and recipient is sent a link to download it.
(tags: web file transfer post:tzetzefly)
Archive for July, 2008
items for 07.30.2008
July 30, 2008http_authentication plugin with Rails 2.1
July 17, 2008If you’re using the popular http_authentication plugin from DHH and getting a NoMethod error “protected method `render’ called for <SomeController>”, the problem is that in Rails 2.x controller.render is now protected. This was a pain to figure out, but it can be easily solved using an updated plugin from Matthew Rudy at http://github.com/matthewrudy/http_authentication/tree/master. Google wasn’t much help, so I’m hoping this post will save someone with this issue some time. Just run
script/plugin install git://github.com/matthewrudy/http_authentication.git –force
and you should be fine after that. The README in the plugin’s folder has further examples on use.
items for 07.11.2008
July 11, 2008- Mapstraction – map abstraction API for Javascript – Hackszine.com
Mapstraction is an abstracted Javascript mapping API that can make use of Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps and Mapquest. Instead of deciding on a particular mapping provider, you can build your web application with Mapstraction and easily switch to a different service by changing a single line of code. - Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs – TechCrunch
FavThumbs offers a visually-pleasing web application to view screen shots of your bookmarks using the del.icio.us API.Not so interested in the app itself, but in the fact that clear, published, open API’s make it so easy to add value around a great service.
- When Distraction is Good – O’Reilly Radar – Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies
Distraction is getting a bad name. This past month, I’ve been heads down on a few projects and noticing something I’d not been very conscious of before now. When I get “stuck” or when I reach a natural break point on a piece of work, the menu of potential distractions includes everything from email and telephone calls to getting food, socializing and more.I did an informal audit. Sometimes I would check email. Other times, I would pace, get a glass of iced-tea, or walk outside for a few minutes. When I did the latter — any activity that was quiet, reflective and receptive, I would feel refreshed. I was open to receiving an insight and to being in the moment. When I returned to the project that had momentarily stumped me, I would enjoy new energy. I started calling this receptive distraction. Receptive distraction is any sort of distraction that creates mental space.When I went to email, however, I would “spin out.” That is, I would completely lose track of what I had been working on and get immersed in all sorts of other issues. I started calling this deceptive distraction. I thought I could take a short break and crank out a few emails, but it took longer to do the emails than I thought, and longer to get back into my project afterward.
- Scaling on EC2 – WebMynd Blog
Interesting post about how WebMynd is scaling quickly using EC2, Solr, and nginx.
(tags: ec2 scalability architecture solr)
Useful utility – Jott
July 10, 2008I’ve been using Jott now for a few weeks and it’s super useful. You set up a (free) account, give it your e-mail address and phone number, and (optionally) any other friends e-mail addresses who you may want to Jott. Once set up, you just dial Jott (a toll-free 866 number) and the automated system asks who you want to Jott and what your message is. You can Jott “myself” or any friends name that you already set up on the web site. A few minutes later, the recipient gets an e-mail with a text transcription of your message. The voice to text translation works really well in my experience.
I use this all the time driving to or from work – anything I’m trying to remember, especially to do lists – I just Jott them and then I have a nice list waiting in my inbox when I get there. Highly recommended.
items for 07.09.2008
July 9, 2008- All I need is a red guitar, 3 chords and the TRUTH! – Welcome to Vendor Alley
So it begins… Woolley | Robertson Group has found a home!What more do you need? (Products, customers, employees – yeah, yeah, I know – let us enjoy a day at a time).
- del.icio.us is social search – skwpspace
I find myself more often turning to tag search on del.icio.us when I’m looking for ‘best of’ type searches.
(tags: delicious)Good insight – totally agree with this – delicious is one of my most used web tools.
items for 07.05.2008
July 5, 2008- The HOW of Gnip: keep it simple stupid! – Gnip Blog
Gnip scales using EC2. - WordPress Gears – WordPress.com
New WordPress has Google Gears integration for local caching. Hit the Turbo link for a speed increase.
(tags: wordpress gears)
The Six Phases of Twitter Uptake
July 3, 2008From my experience.
- “That sounds stupid. Why would I want to use that? My life is busy enough already.”
- “Hey – this is kind of fun, especially at this conference.”
- “Man, the web site is down a lot.”
- “Cool – using twhirl will solve all my problems.”
- “Hmmmm – I guess all of twitter is down a lot.”
- “How can I live my life when twitter is f’ing down all the time!?!?!?!?!?”
items for 07.02.2008
July 3, 2008- Gnip » The WHAT of Gnip: Changing APIs from pull to push
Connects Data Consumers to Data Publishers in a low-latency, highly-scalable standards-based way. Data can be pushed or pulled into Gnip (via XMPP, Atom, RSS, REST) and it can be pushed or pulled out of Gnip (currently only via REST, rest to follow).
(tags: post:tzetzefly) - This American Life – The Giant Pool of Money
By far the best explanation I’ve heard of the Housing Mortage and Credit Crisis. Worth an hour of listening time.
(tags: post:tzetzefly) - TwitPic / Share photos on Twitter
Post photos from mobile phone right to Twitter.
(tags: post:tzetzefly)
