Excellent Ruby on Rails routing tutorial for creating custom routes. Explains how routes can be defined to pass parameters into the controller.
RubyTu.be – Ruby Screencasts and Videos for Ruby People
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RubyTu.be – Ruby Screencasts and Videos for Ruby People
Excellent resource for ruby development screencasts, tutorials, howtos and more.
jQuery Impromptu
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Awesome jQuery prompt extension.
The Door Garden » 50 Dollar Greenhouse
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The Door Garden » 50 Dollar Greenhouse
The green house actually ends up costing around $150.00 if you have to buy all the tools and equipment. It’s a pretty simple and cheap green house idea.
Enterprise-level Publishing Industry Drupal Site: In-Fisherman.com | drupal.org
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Enterprise-level Publishing Industry Drupal Site: In-Fisherman.com | drupal.org
Another great Drupal site. This is a nice write-up describing the development process and what modules were used in develping http://www.in-fisherman.com. Hopefully they disable the auto-playing video because it is a bit annoying.
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
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Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
Is free the future?
Interesting review / article about the power of “free” written by Malcom Glabwell. I’ve read a couple of his books; Blink and Outliers. Gladwell also references the 1 cent vs 0 cents Hershey Kiss experiment in Dan Ariely’s book “Predictably Irrational” which I’ve also read. Gladwell explains the experiment;
“Ariely offered a group of subjects a choice between two kinds of chocolate—Hershey’s Kisses, for one cent, and Lindt truffles, for fifteen cents. Three-quarters of the subjects chose the truffles. Then he redid the experiment, reducing the price of both chocolates by one cent. The Kisses were now free. What happened? The order of preference was reversed. Sixty-nine per cent of the subjects chose the Kisses. The price difference between the two chocolates was exactly the same, but that magic word “free” has the power to create a consumer stampede.”
The Website Is Down – Episode three
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The Website Is Down – Episode three
Episode three out now. Great job
Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan – NYTimes.com
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Rebellion on the Range Over a Cattle ID Plan – NYTimes.com
The reason why there even needs to be concern about infection and disease from farm animals is becuase of the massive factory farms and horrible living conditions for the animals within them.
Dog bites man (via mikes78) The dog bites my what??? around 1:30…. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Ksplice – Never reboot ubuntu again
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Ksplice – Never reboot ubuntu again
ksplice update manager claims to allow you to install updates without restarting… ever. It looks easy to install. I plan to test this out.