• JavaScriptMVC – Include
  Include makes it simple to include and compress JavaScript files no matter how complex the dependencies. Focus on organization with logically separated JavaScript files.
  (tags: javascript compression optimization performance library)
• Git.tmbundle – Gitorious
  The official repository for the Git text-mate bundle.
  (tags: textmate git bundle mac osx)
• rush
  rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files – everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby.
  (tags: ruby shell rush console command)
• Overview
  GemInstaller provides automated management of RubyGems.
  (tags: rails ruby gems rubyonrails deployment)
• Vendor Everything — err.the_blog
  The solution we’ve come up with is to throw every Ruby dependency in vendor.
  (tags: deployment gem plugin rails gems ruby rubyonrails development plugins)
• Get Satisfaction – People-Powered Customer Service
  Get Satisfaction is a place where people can get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.
  (tags: customerservice community web2.0 collaboration consumer support)
• Review Board
  Code reviews are fun again! …almost.
  (tags: agile codeanalysis codereview collaboration community development programming review)

• Revision 9016: /trunk/Bundles
  (tags: textmate bundles mac osx)
• Ubercart! A free open source e-commerce shopping cart
  Ubercart is a shopping cart and e-commerce suite built on top of the leading open source CMS, Drupal.
  (tags: business cms community drupal ecommerce opensource php)
• rococoa: Welcome to Rococoa
  Rococoa is a generic Java binding to the Mac Objective-C object system. It allows the creation and use of Objective-C objects in Java, and the implementation of Objective-C interfaces in Java.
  (tags: apple cocoa java mac osx)
• YARB: How to Handle Facebook App Uninstalls with RFacebook
  How to Handle Facebook App Uninstalls with RFacebook
  (tags: facebook rails rfacebook ruby)

1. Democamp Toronto 17

Democamp Toronto 17 is absolutely another great event again! More than 300 people have attended.

Only want to highlight two here:

• AskItOnline is a online survey system created by Kaitlyn MacLachlan totally on her own. It is a pretty beautiful and useful application. Kaitlyn wins the best demo prize.
• Ignite presentation “The State of Wireless in Canada Sucks” from Tom Purves could be the best ignite presentation in the history of Democamp Toronto so far. Well done, Tom!

Joey Devilla had a very detail post on the schedules, please check it out here. I believe he will post some more tonight soon.

Check out the official site of Democamp Toronto too: http://democamp.info/

2. Adobe Flex 3.0 and Air 1.0

Finally, its On – Flex 3.0 and Adobe AIR 1.0 Are Here!

3. Haxies updated! It works on Leopard!

Haxies – Love it or hate it!

In computing, a Haxie is a term which was coined by developer Unsanity to describe their products. It is a blend of “hack” and “Mac OS X”. Unsanity uses it to refer to “hacks” that are specifically designed for use with its Application Enhancer (APE) software. These are typically small interface and functionality tweaks to the system or existing applications by injecting code into programs as they load.

Until yesterday, all the haxies which come from Unsanity or other companies didn’t work on Leopard, all of them. It is a real pain for somebody who loves these little, cute and useful hack tools, such as me.

After several months hard work, the development team in Unsanity finally bring them back to Leopard today: Enthusiastic Trepidation!

Here are some of them what I use all the time:

WindowShade X. It minimizes your windows on desktop, or shades them.

FontCard. It shows a WYSIWYG font menu for your applications.

FruitMenu. It helps you easily access everything from your menu.

Menu Master. It helps you to create shortcut keys for any menu items of any your applications.

Big day today, by all means!

• 语种名称代码 – 阮一峰的网络日志
  最早的时候，ISO 639规定的代码是，用两个拉丁字母表示一种语言，这被称为ISO 639-1。但是，两个拉丁字母最多只有262=676种组合，而世界上已知的语言总数可能有六七千种，因此明显是不够的。
  (tags: language iso)
• Musician’s Friend – Buy musical instruments, music gear, musical equipment online
  (tags: audio shopping music instruments equipment hardware)

• Control.ProgressBar : CSS Based Progress Bar Widget for Prototype
  Control.ProgressBar is a percentage based progress bar that can be set to grow in one of three ways: on a timed interval, when events in your application tell it to, or it can be set to poll a given URL.
  (tags: ajax css design javascript library progressbar prototype webdesign)
• StyleTap Platform – Main page
  Run Palm OS® Applications on Windows Mobile®
  PDAs and Smartphones or iPhone?
  (tags: emulators mobile palm pda emulator pocketpc iphone)
• Sixty Second Tech – think for a minute
  Sixty Second Tech is the technology podcast for non-technology people.
  (tags: podcast)
• Gallery Of Date Stamps And Calendars | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Gallery Of Date Stamps And Calendars
  (tags: article calendar css design icons webdesign graphics inspiration)

Sometime life is very frustrating at the beginning of you presentation. You have some awesome slides in your computer, after you connect to a projector, nothing happened. Pull off and plug in again, still nothing happened. Suddenly the room becomes very quite and everybody is looking at you.

You may start to look at your laptop keyboard and try to find the magic keys which can help you out. But which one is the right one?

Here is a picture what I have taken at the beginning of a presentation today in PodCamp Toronto. This is the best projector standby screen I have ever seen!

It simply tell you which keys can help you share your screen with projector:

• Panasonic and NEC laptop uses Fn + F3
• HP, Sharp and Toshiba laptop uses Fn + F5
• IBM and Sony laptop uses Fn + F7
• Dell and Epson laptop uses Fn + F8
• Fujitsu laptop uses Fn + F10
• Apple laptop uses F7

Pretty cool!

I am using iPhoto to manage all my pictures as I don’t think I am a photographer or a shutterbug in any way. And iPhoto does have all the features what I really need. So I didn’t pay any attention on Aperture before.

One of my friend was coming to me and asked a question about Aperture 2.0 today. He said he was trying it in another day, but it crashed all the time when he want to export pictures out, even click “Export” preference tab would crash too.

This is really unusual for a software which is came from Apple.

Before ask google, I did a quick look on his log file. Interestingly, before crashing there was one line said something about color pickers. So I opened his ~/Library/ColorPickers and found he has installed pretty much every color pickers what I have mentioned in another post – “Choose your right colors on Mac is not easy – My Mac Serial 1“.

Simply moving color pickers out really solved the Aperture crashing problem. So it is the issue resource then.

Well, we still need some color pickers, right? I put every color pickers back one by one and found “RCWebColorPicker” is the one who breaks Aperture this time.

Anyway, here are some more information:

• Crash while trying to export on Leopard (New bug)
• Export Pref tab causes crash

• F->IT – web based FTP client
  F->IT is an easy to use FTP client that resembles Windows Explorer. With it, you can:

  * Drag and drop folders and files.
  * Edit highlighted source files.
  * Upload multiple files.

  (tags: ajax browser ftp online web2.0 javascript)
• canhaschat – Google Code
  can has chat is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that allows you to easily plugin messaging functionality to your app using XMPP4R.
  (tags: chat im jabber plugin plugins rails xmpp ruby rubyonrails)
• :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: When, a Rails plugin
  The When Rails plugin adds :if and :unless modifiers to before_filters, most ActiveRecord callbacks, and validations.
  (tags: activerecord development plugin plugins rails railsplugins ruby rubyonrails filters programming)
• RubyForge: spacer: Project Info
  Ruby API for the Myspace Platform API.
  (tags: myspace ruby)

• Freebase : Sign In
  Freebase is an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge.
  (tags: database opensource collaboration community)
• AJAX Chat – Open Source Web Chat
  AJAX Chat is a free and fully customizable open source web chat software implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. Sound support is implemented using Flash, Socket support using Flash on client-side and Ruby on server-side.
  (tags: ajax chat opensource php mysql)
• Touchpad for iPhone
  Touchpad enables you to use your iPhone as a wireless touchpad. You can control the mouse on your PC using just your iPhone. You can move the mouse around, click, double-click, and even drag (double click but keep it pressed and then move around).
  (tags: applications iphone touchpad ipodtouch vnc mobile)
• LoJack Car Security System for Stolen Vehicle Recovery
  When your vehicle is stolen, LoJack helps get it back — fast. A LoJack transmitter hidden in your vehicle helps the police track and recover it, often within a few hours.
  (tags: gadgets car security)

• Jott™ – Official Site
  (tags: accessibility productivity mobile phone web2.0 voice blogging)
• Activa Live Chat | Live Help Software, Online Customer Service, Live Support
  Activa Live Chat is the world’s only full featured on-demand live chat platform.
  (tags: air applications flex chat live flash)
• DNSPinger – DNS Update Notifier By WebResourcesDepot
  DNSPinger is a web-based tool that pings the website you mentioned every 3 minutes for 24 hours and e-mails you when the Ip is updated (new DNS is activated).
  (tags: dns domain hosting webdev webservice programming free)
• Flash Media Server Hosting – Influxis Flash Media Interactive Server 3 Hosting Specialists
  Influxis brings you the latest Flash Media Server 3 Hosting technologies.
  (tags: flash hosting streaming video fms media communication)
• 卡车司机的不同视角 | 掘图志
  (tags: art fun design)
• Step by Step – Show and explain visitors what your page has for them
  Step by Step – Show and explain visitors what your page has for them
  (tags: accessibility ajax development inspiration javascript prototype yui usability wizard)
• FFFFOUND!
  Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of the project.
  (tags: design art inspiration photography images illustration aggregator bookmark)
• Bad usability calendar
  (tags: art calendar design examples usability web2.0 webdesign)
• David Rusenko – Press for Startups: 10 tips
  How do you get press to write about your new startup, your new product or your feature launch? Here are ten tips to attracting press attention and dealing with the conversations that follow.
  (tags: entrepreneurship startup tips)
• Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both.
  (tags: accessibility usability design webdesign gui development programming)