Friday, December 15, 2006

Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials?

I am not sure if these are the top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials, but when I get a chance, I am going to take a look..

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Max Kiesler - DesignDemo - Web 2.0, AJAX, and Rails UI Elements

Max Kiesler's web site has all kinds of GREAT examples of Web 2.0 development. Go see!

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

KB Home & Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart has teamed up with the company KB Home to design homes for everyday people. You can see the homes
here. They are very much in keeping with the designs shown in her magazine.

It is interesting to me to see how much of an impact this will have on home building. Whether it is just a niche, or something much bigger. Will these homes take into account geographical considerations, zoning, and many of the things that local builders and architects take into account? Can you have homes designed centrally like this? Much corporate architecture is global (i.e. one airport looks more or less like the next...same with fast food restaurants). Could homes go the same way? I think not, but that doesn't mean someone might not try it.

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Friday, December 08, 2006

An introduction to RSS news feeds

DeveloperWorks has a great introduction to RSS news feeds here.

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Orisinal.com - Winterbells

Orisinal.com - Winterbells is a beautiful little Flash game with lovely music.

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W3Schools

There are lots of goos sites to learn web technology, but I have always found the W3Schools Online Web Tutorials to be some of the best. Learn html, css, XML, SOAP, AJAX, and lots more.

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One blog?

In researching which blog to go with, I found a number of sites for this, like Vox. They all have good features of one sort or another. I like blogger, of course. But with some many out there which one should one chose for their blog?

When people ask me if I have a blog, it appears that one should have ONE blog. Really, I think people should have many blogs. Perhaps one ongoing one of general events to log. But why not a blog for a specific project in your life, or for a specific period in time, or some other well defined part of your life? And when that is over, the blog would be over. I think that makes more sense.

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Antikythera Mechanism

Techrepublic has great photos and an nice article on the Antikythera Mechanism here:

Photos: Decoding an ancient computer | TechRepublic Photo Gallery

Here's a shot:

Photo of Antikythera Mechanism

It's fascinating to think of whatever sophisticated computing devices exist out there.

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

web labs

google has a lab. IBM has had such a think (alphaworks) for some time now. Digg has one too. See digg labs

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Tip of the Day: Dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses

The following from a friend on one way to deal with unwanted visitors: I told them about a friend who discovered how to stop repeated unwelcome visits from the Jehovah's Witnesses. Eventually, he simply answered the door without a stitch of clothing. They ran away at enormous speed without saying a word, and they never returned.

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Quote of the day

"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory."
--Mahatma Gandhi

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

I read this news blog daily....as well as the TPMMuckraker.com site that is affiliated with it. Very good journalism, and a good example of how weBLOG journalism can provide a service that the MainStreamMedia can't provide.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Metacritic.com

Metacritic.com has all the reviews you can possibly want on anything. Trying to decide on a movie, book, game or TV show? Check out metacritic.

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