links for 2008-02-07

SciBarCamp is a gathering of scientists, artists, and technologists for a weekend of talks and discussions. It will take place at Hart House at the University of Toronto on the weekend of March 15-16, with an opening reception on the evening of March 14.

using PrivatePaste.com for sharing code/text with others.

Irregular shaped AIR apps and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

less.ismore.net is the home of open-source Apps and Libraries designed for the lovely Mac OS. The Apps and Libraries are written with the principle of “helping you doing more by disturbing you less” in mind.

Adding Type Checking to Ruby

DRM sucks, but it’s unavoidable and arguably the future, in the form of ubiquitious consumer devices like the Xbox 360 and iPhone. Nobody likes it. But at the very least understand how it works, because as I found out, DRM ignorance is expensive.

Five things to do to a script before handing it over to the next developer

Timezone awareness in Rails