• DARE – The Adobe® AIR™ Development Web Server
  DARE is a local http server that makes it easy to create, test, and package AIR applications. It allows you to develop and test using your HTML/JS tools of choice and a web browser. You can use the “Refresh” button to test and package your application.
  (tags: adobe air flex)
• Advanced Flash Components
  This free, embeddable version of our FLV Player (AS 3.0) Basic Skins component does not require Flash (we provide the .swf in the download package) and has several advanced features
  (tags: as3 player flash flv)
• JW FLV Media Player
  The JW FLV Media Player (built with Adobe’s Flash) is an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, but also MP3, H264, SWF, JPG, PNG and GIF).
  (tags: flash player flv media)

• OpenID for Google Accounts
  (tags: appengine authentication openid google)
• Noobkit
  Noobkit
  Ruby on Rails documentation… on Rails.
  (tags: rails ruby documentation rubyonrails reference)

• RubyForge: Morph: Project Info
  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.
  (tags: ruby)
• Google Spreadsheets Data API – Google Code
  The Google Spreadsheets Data API allows client applications to view and update Spreadsheets content in the form of Google Data API (“GData”) feeds.
  (tags: google spreadsheet database collaboration)
• itunes-rails – Google Code
  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.
  (tags: itunes rails rubyonrails osx opensource music ruby)
• Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Using SimpleDB and Rails in No Time with ActiveResource
  Martin Rehfeld shows you how to seamlessly leverage Amazon SimpleDB for your Ruby on Rails application using the Rails ActiveResource framework.
  (tags: amazon architecture rails simpledb activeresource ruby rubyonrails)
• Web On Rails – » Plugin: state_select, generate drop down selection box for states | Its all about RubyOnRails(ROR)
  Plugin: state_select, generate drop down selection box for states
  (tags: rails plugin plugins state_select rubyonrails)
• Google App Engine – Google Code
  Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.
  Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
  (tags: google appengine programming hosting engine distributed development)
• Forever Babybook
  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.
  (tags: flex baby photo family)
• Welcome to Scrapblog! – Online Scrapbooks
  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.
  (tags: scrapbooking web2.0 photos photography photo application flex)
• Twubble
  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.

  (tags: twitter mashup socialnetworking social search google people)
• Real-time Twitter Search – Tweet Scan
  Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter posts.
  (tags: twitter search searchengine web2.0 collaboration)
• DesignFlavr – Design Inspiration
  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.
  (tags: design inspiration webdesign gallery resources aggregator)

• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
  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.
  (tags: design patterns webdesign yahoo usability ui web2.0)
• cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.1
  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!
  (tags: ajax animation javascript zoom lightbox webdesign gallery image design)
• James on Software: Introducing Action Messager: Dead simple IM notifications for your app!
  Introducing Action Messager: Dead simple IM notifications for your app!
  (tags: gem rails plugin ruby im jabber messaging)

• Window.Growl 2.0
  Growl is a lightweight JavaScript (mootools powered) that you can use for creating Lightbox-like but disappearing notifications.
  (tags: ajax javascript growl mootools library design effects dialog)
• Compass – Java Search Engine Framework
  Compass is an open source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application.
  (tags: lucene java search opensource library fulltext engine)

• StopFinder: Find the closest and cheapest parking lots and transit stops in Toronto
  We make it easy to move around Toronto.
  (tags: toronto transit travel)
• Rapleaf – Data and People Lookup
  Lookup your information • Search for information about others • Manage your online privacy
  (tags: aggregator reputation social web2.0 rating business search)

• RubyForge: db_free_solr: Project Info
  This is a plugin that extends the acts_as_solr plugin to allow applications to better harness the power of Solr.
  (tags: search searchengine lucene solr rails ruby)
• rubyizumi – Google Code
  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.
  (tags: flash media opensource ruby streaming video server rtmp h264)
• Dr Nic » RailsRally 2007 and GemsOnRails
  This Rails plugin allows you to freeze or link a gem into your rails source (inspired by Rick Olsen’s gems plugin)
  (tags: development gem gems plugin plugins rake rails rubyonrails ruby programming)
• make_resourceful
  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.
  (tags: rails plugin rubyonrails ruby plugins restful rest programming)
• A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die
  Sign Up Forms Must Die
  (tags: usability forms webdesign design web ui interface article)
• Mapstraction – a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.
  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.
  (tags: api javascript maps googlemaps mapping yahoomaps map development)
• mooRainbow
  mooRainbow is a powerful Javascript color picker that allows you to visually choose and use colors as a real and useful application.
  (tags: mootools javascript color picker design development)

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!

• Umbraco – Home
  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.
  (tags: .net cms opensource asp.net)
• TypeRoom Lite
  Edit your own website. Instantly.

  TypeRoom Lite is a free website editing tool
  that allows you to edit a website in seconds.

  (tags: cms website design web2.0 webdev wysiwyg)
• GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.
  GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.
  (tags: funny humor graphs statistics data design charts culture)
• Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
  What’s New in Edge Rails: Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
  (tags: migration fixtures rails testing rubyonrails tdd ruby)
• Plans – A Good Web Calendar
  Plans lets you put calendars on the web.
  (tags: ajax calendar opensource perl php application)

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:

1. Find your original “MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install Disc 1″, please make sure it is yours, not somebody else’s!
2. copy /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext from “Mac OS X Install Disc 1” overwrite to your Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext
3. 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!