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Daily Dose #4

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Bourbon Creams and Bananas are not a balanced diet.

Phusion Passenger on Amazon EC2
Some useful stuff relating to Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) on Amazons Elastic Computing Cloud.

Moving from Java to C#
A senior ThoughtWorker talks about his first C# project 10 years after he first tasted the Java bean.

IPhone GUI PSD
Some photoshop goodies for mocking up IPhone UI’s.

Written by Floyd Price

August 20th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Daily Dose #3

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More estimating today! Calculating velocity tomorrow… Joy!

Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008
Some y-combinator startups show of there stuff.

YUI 3 Preview
Personally i prefer ExtJS but more choice in this area is good for all.

AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures
Interesting stats from TapTapTap – Makes me think I should building IPhone apps ;-)

Written by Floyd Price

August 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

Daily Dose #2

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Spent the best part of the day estimating development effort for an upcoming project… Yarn.

CMS Rails Kit
Ben Curtis has released a new CMS Rails Kit.

The Ruby Hoedown in 10 minutes
The guys from Rails Envy give a quick review of the Ruby Hoedown.

Ruby Visual Identity Team
Want to show the world that you love Ruby? Get a high quality Ruby image for your website.

ar-extensions 0.8.0 released!
Some handy extensions to Active Record that now work with Rails 2.1

Written by Floyd Price

August 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Daily Dose #1

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A few links to get us going…

IPhone Development

iphone-universal
Normalized CSS & HTML framework to develop iPhone webdev applications

C#

Simple REST Client
Some .NET code for consuming RESTful web services.

Rails

Understanding Map and Reduce
Some underused collection functions in Ruby

OS X Utils

Expandrive
Cool app that allows you to mount a sFtp folder.

MarsEdit
Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac.

Written by Floyd Price

August 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am

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