Archive for the 'General' category

Curbly.net - Curbly’s Corporate Site

Just wanted to announce that I’ve thrown up a corporate site for Curbly, LLC (the company behind Curbly, WeeBabyStuff, and all the other sites I talk about on this blog). I figured it made sense to tie all of my various endeavours up in one place, so, here it is!

That is all. Move along.

Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library

Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library

Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library

Finally, a single repository for Prototype.js-based scripts. 

 

QuarkRuby: Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery

QuarkRuby: Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery

New Chatter stuff: bookmarklet uses selected text as default field values, RSS feeds for your chatters, import your GMail contacts (look …

New Chatter stuff: bookmarklet uses selected text as default field values, RSS feeds for your chatters, import your GMail contacts (look under settings), and publish to any Metaweblogs API compatible blog (look under settings).

The only technology company I can think of that shares Apple’s emphasis on the emotional design of its hardware and software is Nintendo….

The only technology company I can think of that shares Apple’s emphasis on the emotional design of its hardware and software is Nintendo. It’s not that Apple and Nintendo share the same taste (they don�t), but that they have taste, and express that taste boldly and confidently in nearly everything they produce. Too bad Nintendo and Apple don’t compete against each other.

Amen to that

Third time’s a charm

Third time’s a charm
Tumblr 3.0 is AWESOME.

LINK: Cache-Control Header for Amazon S3

Cache-Control Header for Amazon S3
Amazon provides an option for specifying the Cache-Control header, but we use the AWS::S3 gem and the attachment_fu plugin for uploading our files to S3. The gem and plugin don’t provide a convenient way to set the Cache-Control header. My solution is to enhance the behavior of the store() method within the AWS::S3 gem so that it always specifies a Cache-Control header of 10 years if another value is not specified.

A 5 year plan is just an extrapolation added to wishful thinking. Have you ever seen a business plan that says, “I’m going to go up 5% and then down -14% and then -22% and then I’m going to recuperate a little bit and then it’s going to go to hell?”

A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

LINK: One Week Job - 52 jobs in 52 weeks

One Week Job - 52 jobs in 52 weeks

Sean Aiken tries a new job every week for a year, donating proceeds to charity. So far he's been a rock climbing instructor, a dairy farmer, an ad executive, and more!

WDITOT?! (why didn't I think of that?!)

LINK: Ajaxian » Preventing spam with drag and drop

Ajaxian » Preventing spam with drag and drop