links for 2008-04-10
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Noobkit
Ruby on Rails documentation… on Rails.
links for 2008-04-08
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Morph helps you generate class definitions through calling assignment methods. Unlike OpenStruct, it’s not a wrapper around a hash, but instead dynamically adds methods to a class. Mix with Hpricot for screen scrapping fun.
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The Google Spreadsheets Data API allows client applications to view and update Spreadsheets content in the form of Google Data API (“GData”) feeds.
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This open source project provides a web interface to the iTunes application running on the same machine. iTunesRails allows people sharing a work space and local computer network to control a common iTunes instance and shared music collection.
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Martin Rehfeld shows you how to seamlessly leverage Amazon SimpleDB for your Ruby on Rails application using the Rails ActiveResource framework.
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Plugin: state_select, generate drop down selection box for states
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Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.
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Forever Baby Book allows proud parents to design and create their own baby scrapbook and then print out the pages from the book. A photo sharing site with the ability to purchase photo gifts and scrapbook pages on top of the photo sharing abilities.
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We thought your pictures could use some online scrapping. We wanted to go beyond sharing our photos and videos online. We made Scrapblog drag-and-drop-easy so that everyone can tell their stories and create beautiful multimedia scrapbooks.
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Looking for more people to follow?
Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow. Click the button below to get started.
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Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter posts.
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Welcome to DesignFlavr, Inspirational Art and Design served daily.
DesignFlavr is a breed of website that hopes to deliver the latest and freshest art and design straight to you with no frills and no hassle.
links for 2008-04-07
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Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We’re thrilled to be sharing patterns and code with the web design and development community, hope it’s useful, and look forward to your feedback.
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This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website!
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Introducing Action Messager: Dead simple IM notifications for your app!
links for 2008-04-06
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Growl is a lightweight JavaScript (mootools powered) that you can use for creating Lightbox-like but disappearing notifications.
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Compass is an open source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application.
links for 2008-04-05
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We make it easy to move around Toronto.
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Lookup your information • Search for information about others • Manage your online privacy
links for 2008-04-04
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This is a plugin that extends the acts_as_solr plugin to allow applications to better harness the power of Solr.
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RubyIZUMI is an open source RTMP Server for Flash Video/Audio Streaming. It is written in (Pure) Ruby and it supports to broadcast MP4(H.264 + AAC). You can watch it on the latest Flash player on your browser.
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This Rails plugin allows you to freeze or link a gem into your rails source (inspired by Rick Olsen’s gems plugin)
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make_resourceful handles all that for you. It sets up all your RESTful actions and responses with next to no code. Everything has full, sensible default functionality. Make_resourceful can be massively customized.
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Sign Up Forms Must Die
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Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.
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mooRainbow is a powerful Javascript color picker that allows you to visually choose and use colors as a real and useful application.
Update RubyGems to new Version on Leopard
RubyGems just updated to version 1.1.0. Couple of the major changes are “Index updates are much faster now” and “only updates from a latest index by default”. So, time to update.
As Leopard already has Ruby and RubyGems preinstalled (Thanks, Apple!). So the default update way:
$ sudo gem update –system
will NOT work well.
Here is what you should do on Leopard 10.5.2:
$ sudo gem install rubygems-update
$ sudo update_rubygems
Enjoy!
links for 2008-04-03
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umbraco is an open source project with roots back to year 2000 even though it wasn’t released as open source until 2004. Prior to that it was founder Niels Hartvig’s home-grown weapon of choise for working as a freelancer.
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Edit your own website. Instantly.
TypeRoom Lite is a free website editing tool
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GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.
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What’s New in Edge Rails: Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
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Plans lets you put calendars on the web.
Fix New MacBook Pro AirPort problem
I’ve got my Shinning super cool new MacBook Pro two weeks ago. Everything works fine until recently after some automatic updates.
The MacBook Pro I have is 2.4GHz 15′ version. I am so loving it! But the AirPort problem is really annonying!
For some reason, at the end of the day, pretty much every day, MacBook Pro wireless connection just suddenly stop working with my AirPort Extreme. But at the same time my old MacBook works just fine. Turn MacBook Pro AirPort off and on, and try to connect to my wireless network again and again. Nothing helps. Rebooting AirPort Extreme again and again just helps a little. Some logs on console:
airportd Error: Apple80211Associated() failed -6
_emUIServer Error: airport MIG failed = -6 ((null) port = 45523
Did a google search and found a lot of people do have the same problem and so far there is no good solution yet. Some of them said go back to 10.5.1 actually fix the problem, and this is a suggestion from Apple Genius. Which I think is a solution but it is for away from good. I don’t really want to downgrade as I already installed too much into my Leopard and spent amount of time to make it works smothly as what my MacBook does.
This is really pain!
Spend some more time these two days and did some more tests. Finally have good progress. But couple of the tests is really risky, such as, Leopard told me no AirPort Card installed after rebooting. 
Anyway, here is the simplest but working solution:
- Find your original “MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install Disc 1″, please make sure it is yours, not somebody else’s!
- copy /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext from “Mac OS X Install Disc 1” overwrite to your Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
- After couple of seconds, Leopard will pick up your changes and your MacBook Pro will link back to wireless network again without any problem!
Yes, you don’t even need a reboot! 
If you couldn’t find your original install disc 1, you still can use someone’s if them have the same model as your MacBook Pro. But make sure do a backup for IO80211Family.kext.
Enjoy!
Maxwell Rocatanski suggested Pacifist for whom aren’t as comfortable using the terminal. Thanks MaxWell!
links for 2008-04-02
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Phormer is a PHP-Based PhotoGallery Manager application, that helps you to store, categorize and trim your photos on the web with various helpful features!
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Download Free High Resolution Textures for Digital Art, 3D Rendering, Web Design or Print Projects
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GoogieSpell is a spell checker that you can use in your own web-application.