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Hacker News | Safire - An iPhone Web Application Framework
via news.ycombinator.com by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
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Sneak peek at Boston Apple store | NetworkWorld.com Community
via www.networkworld.com by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
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A Rails Developer’s Thoughts On Using Grails
via Draconis Software Blog by Costa Walcott on May 15, 2008
We strongly believe in using the right tool for the job. While we currently think of Rails as the de facto choice when it comes to writing webapps, we’ll always consider other options, such as one of the many other Ruby web frameworks, or going with another language such as Python.Lately I’ve been looking for a chance to play with Grails. Briefly, for those who aren’t familiar, Grails...
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Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications
via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on May 13, 2008
Because Twitter is getting more popular, every glitch in the service is now felt more acutely. Going without Twitter for many people is even harder than going without email, and so outages lead to complaints.Complaints pile up and become debates, asking questions like: should Twitter be converted into a protocol and become decentralized? Is that the way to scale Twitter and make it more reliable?...
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Overview Video | Evernote Corporation
via www.evernote.com by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by costa I have to say Evernote looks pretty cool: especially if the text recognition is as good as is it appears in the video. I could definitely see myself using this a lot with my iPhone.
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Migrating to Ruby 1.9
via Codefluency by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
Shared by costa A good introduction to the changes that are coming in Ruby 1.9Here’s the slides for the other talk I gave at Scotland on Rails, going over the syntax and language feature changes between Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9.This is a significantly updated and expanded version of a similar talk I gave at the Austin on Rails meeting in February.
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May 17, 2008: BarCampBoston 3 at Matignon High School
via Upcoming: Boston Tech Events Events by juliamae on April 23, 2008
... fee, but you don't just attend a BarCamp -- you can participate in discussions, demo your projects, or join into another cooperative event.Topics may include, but are not limited to: open source software, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, AJAX, hardware hacking, robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, RSS, Social Software, programming languages, and the future of technology.
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Building a Social Network Site in Rails
via Jim Neath by Jim Neath on April 25, 2008
I’m not going to cover how to actually code an entire social network site in rails as all social network sites vary in their functionality (and it’ll take too long). I will cover plugins and other things you might find useful though.Quick StartIf you don’t really want to do the coding but want to get a site up and running and soon as possible, you may want to have a look at Lovd by Less by...
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Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively
via TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us by matt@tidbits.com (Matt Neuburg) on May 01, 2008
Time Machine users, rejoice! Pierce T. Wetter III has released a modified version of the open-source GrandPerspective utility (see "GrandPerspective and WhatSize Identify Disk Pigs," 2007-10-12) - a version that understands the use of file and folder hard links peculiar to a Time Machine backup.You can use this modified GrandPerspective to scan your entire Time Machine backup folder. For one...
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Viral marketing, activation, and retention metrics - commentary on Dave McClure's Web 2.0 presentation
via Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen by Andrew Chen on April 23, 2008
... on each section: 1) AcquisitionDave's slides list a multitude of acquisition options, from SEO to blogs and PR, to e-mail, etc. And while I was at MDV, I often saw pitches that incorporated a huge laundry list of acquisition strategies, which generally made me think the entrepreneur pitching didn't have a strategy at all. In general, the main thing to focus on is that you have a ...
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