Weekend Reader – javascript, friendfeed, google, lifehacks, web2.0
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- ,
- [BLOGGING] Zemanta – First Impress Review, problogger.net
- Blogging software plugin that automatically suggests links and videos.
- [CODE] Why hackers FLOSS, blog.milkingthegnu.org
- Thoughts on motivating IT workers based on why people contribute open source code.
- [CSS] Timelapse CSS, matthewbuchanan.name
- Javascript for playing CSS rendering in slow motion.
- [FRIENDFEED] Blame FriendFeed, techcrunch.com
- Not sure what to make of this. Vaguely entertaining.
- [FRIENDFEED] How To Find FriendFeed Rooms With Google, andybeard.eu
- Google query to search for public rooms
- [FRIENDFEED] Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks, webomatica.com
- Why Jason things Friend Feed is one of the social apps to watch for 2008
- [GOOGLE] goosh.org – the unofficial google shell., goosh.org, via:news.ycombinator.com
- unix-like shell for google search in the web browser
- [JAVASCRIPT] Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure, ajaxian.com
- This is pretty huge for webdevs. You can let Google handle your jquery, prototype, etc libraries.
- [JAVASCRIPT] Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use, azarask.in, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Uses the same CSS hack I use for one of my Greasemonkey scripts to intelligently sense which social sites a visitor uses.
- [LIFEHACKS] An Engineer’s Guide To Weight Loss, teddziuba.com
- The simple and to the point guide to not being a fat ass engineer.
- [LIFEHACKS] How to Recycle Electronics and Get Cash Back, friedbeef.com
- I might have to try this out as I downsize my garage
- [SLEEPHACKS] Easy way to reset your sleep cycle: Stop eating, parentingsquad.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Temporarily adjusting your diet can be a quick way to ensure when you’ll wake up.
- [WEB2.0] Scaling Fast, lukasbiewald.com
- Scaling your web app when you’re linked to by the most trafficked page on the internet.
- [WEB2.0] StikiPad – When software in the cloud goes sour, mentalized.net, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Good reminder — only use web apps that let you backup your data
- [YOUTUBE] YouTomb, youtomb.mit.edu, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Track YouTube in real time videos as they are removed for copyright infringement.
Tags: friendfeed, google, javascript, lifehacks, web2.0
Become a Greasemonkey Ninja with jQuery
This is for all the Greasemonkeyers in the house who want to learn how to be much more productive when it comes to hacking together Greasemonkey script by using my favorite Javascript library: jQuery. jQuery will turn a 700 line Greasemonkey script into a 12 line Greasemonkey script. I learned about jQuery through all of the Greasemonkey scripts I created to work with Friend Feed.
This is advanced stuff that is of interest to people writing Javascript. If you’re just a Greasemonkey user then you can safely skip this one.
How to Unminify Javascript Code
As websites have moved away from static pages to interactive updating displays, the modern Greasemonkey hacker has been forced to learn new tricks: namely interacting with the Javascript on a website. Sometimes that’s harder than it looks because the Javascript on the site you want to modify has been minified.
Delicious Links – 20 links – friendfeed, blogging, javascript, psychology, startup
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can see me add them in real time on Friend Feed.
- [BITTORRENT] Protect Your Privacy When Downloading, lifehacker.com
- Two tips for not being caught as the nasty pirate that you are.
- [BLOGGING] 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider, problogger.net
- Great examples of how to use the WordPress page feature. I wish I didn’t have so many damn problems with it on WordPress.com (can’t remove it from my theme head, trackback prob).
- [BLOGGING] 7 Blogging Statistics Rules – There is Life After Page Views, hanselman.com, via:raganwald.com
- From the article: ” If you post a Gallery or a List or anything post with a Prime Number and the word “Rules” in the title, you’ll get traffic. You post smart, compelling content, you need to be wicked smart before folks take note.”
- [BLOGGING] A Caffeine Inspired Interview with Jeff Atwood from CodingHorror.com, caffeinatedcoder.com
- “The only difference between good and great blogs is that the good bloggers kept writing until they became great bloggers.” — Jeff Atwood
- [BLOGGING] Group Interview: What Do Online Advertisers Look For in a Website?, dailyblogtips.com
- Daniel gets the skinny on how to sell ads on your website.
- [FRIENDFEED] A Few FriendFeed Treats Out There, jeffisageek.net
- A list of the cool little hacks people have made for FF so far.
- [FRIENDFEED] Friendfeed 2018, blogoscoped.com, via:winextra.com
- The future of Friend Feed.
- [FRIENDFEED] Share that link on FriendFeed using FeedDemon, winextra.com
- Share items on FF using Feed Demon.
- [FRIENDFEE] The FriendFeed Playground, ffapps.com
- Avi put together a FF apps site for pointing to the cool apps people are building around FF.
- [GEEK] Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground, wired.com, via:reddit.com
- Which geek are you? I’m 1-5 but thankfully not 6.
- [GREASEMONKEY] How to play nicely with jQuery and Greasemonkey, joanpiedra.com
- Tips on accessing jQuery inside your Greasemonkey scripts.
- [JAVASCRIPT] Great JavaScript presentation by John Resig, lazycoder.com
- I started using jQuery a lot this week and its friggin awesome. I must watch this video.
- [MARKETING] Polarize Me, fastcompany.com, via:37signals.com
- The ‘Made to Stick’ guys talk about how in order to have people love you, you have to decide who will hate you. No walking the middle line.
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] Why I will never get another date, jennifer-mccarthy.blogspot.com
- The truth of social web apps exposed.
- [STARTUPS] How To Use Perks and Rewards in Startups to Get The Best Talent, instigatorblog.com
- Anywhere could hire me away if they offered me the best-of-breed source control, chat, backup and allowed me to attend conferences.
- [STARTUPS] The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6, blog.pmarca.com
- Long read, but the section on incentives/disincentives are particularly interesting and applicable to all aspects of your life.
- [WORDPRESS] FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin, blog.slaven.net.au
- Display the Friend Feed discussion on your WordPress blog.
- [WORKHACKS] The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities, uie.com, via:labnotes.org
- The KJ-Technique is a method for getting the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ as fast as possible without getting bogged down by borderline cases.
- [XBOX360] REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data, duncanmackenzie.net
- Public rest API for Xbox Gamertag. Gives you an XML file.
(more…)
Delicious Links – 20 links – writing, programming, javascript, jquery, testing
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.
Subscribe to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [CODE] Research Supports The Effectiveness of TDD, haacked.com
- IEEE paper on why Test Driven Development works
- [CODE] Valued Lessons: Garlic Programmers for Silver Code?, valuedlessons.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- How can you measure programmer productivity when the biggest factor is the code base they are working on?
- [COMICS] Build your own Comics and cartoons, chron.com
- You can put together a single page with most syndicated comics on it
- [COPYRIGHT] Bad COPP No Netflix, davisfreeberg.com, via:dailybits.com
- DRM causes hardware probs, that could make you lose all your legitimate digital downloads.
- [DESIGN] Paper Prototyping, snyderconsulting.net
- hallway usability testing before you code
- [DESIGN] Web 2.0 how-to design style guide, webdesignfromscratch.com
- Yes, we’re all tired of “web2.0” designs — but this guide makes some good points and is full of examples.
- [GAMERS] Audiosurf: Ride Your Music, audio-surf.com
- Independent video game with strong ties to music/mp3s
- [GAMERS] The Weighted Companion PC – Final shots, bit-tech.net
- I’d love to have this PC mod… for Portal fans.
- [GREASEMONKEY] Greasespot: Greasemonkey Security Update, greasespot.net
- New version of Greasemonkey is out. Please update.
- [GROUP WRITING] Blog Writing Project: Tutorials, dailyblogtips.com
- Write a tutorial as part of Daily Blog Tips group writing project
- [JAVASCRIPT] The jSkinny on jQuery, errtheblog.com
- Examples of using jQuery instead of prototype or rjs files
- [JAVASCRIPT] jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0, tablesorter.com
- Client-side library for sorting tables.
- [MYSPACE] January 30th is International Delete Your Myspace Account Day, bloggasm.com
- It’s a good idea to delete your old social networking accounts that you don’t use anymore.
- [PHOTOS] everystockphoto – searching free photos, everystockphoto.com, via:scottkuperus
- search engine for copyfree photos
- [REDDIT] what’s new on reddit: new features, blog.reddit.com
- Users will have the ability to create their own public/private reddits.
- [RSS] Dosh Dosh Reaches 10,000 Subscribers (and the Reason Why People Subscribe to a Blog), doshdosh.com
- How to get an audience
- [RUBY] Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor, rubular.com
- Web-based regular expression tester
- [SOFTWARE] Ned Batchelder: Software I use, nedbatchelder.com
- List of Windows software… some stuff worth trying in there. I recognize a lot of it from lifehacker.com
- [WRITING] Effective Writing – George Orwell, pickthebrain.com
- 5 tips from one of the masters
- [WRITING] Programming Book Profits, ejohn.org
- A look at how much income writing a book can generate
- Powered by Delicious Links Pro
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
Internet Duct Tape is my blog where I talk about software, technology, blogging and other geeky subjects.
- CoinStar — Is It Worth It To Convert Your Spare Change?
- When I was a kid rolling up the spare change to take in the bank, I always wondered why there wasn’t a machine that would do it for you in bulk. Sorting coins mechanically isn’t rocket science; all you need is holes of different sizes. Now we’re in the 21st centuary. We might not have…
- Stupid iTunes Tricks – How to Burn a MP3 CD with Folders
- An MP3 CD is a regular old data CD like any CD you put in your computer. Any program that burns CDs can create an MP3 CD, but I like to use iTunes because I’m already using it to manage my music library.
- Free Idea: Outlook Calendar Screensaver
- People often guard their ideas thinking that if they let the word get out people will steal their golden shot at success. What they don’t realize is that idea are worth nothing. Implementation is the only thing that matters. Here’s an idea I had for something I’m not planning on…
- Best of Feeds – 19 links – blogging, inspiration, writing, design, apple
- apple, blogging, design, inspiration, tips, writing
This Week at IDT Labs
IDT Labs is where I announce new software I’m working on.
- [PIPES] Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions
- My Filtered Technorati Recent Mentions pipe works again. It can give you an RSS feed of the latest blogs that links to your blog.
- [GREASEMONKEY] Userscripts.org Popular Scripts v0.2Updated my script for identifying the most popular Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org
Tags: javascript, jquery, programming, writing
Best of Feeds – 26 links – programming, webdesign, javascript, design, tips
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [JAVASCRIPT] Ext JS – JavaScript Library for Web Windows
- Interesting javascript library for doing web windows. Has a nice spreadsheet display.
- (extjs.com 3318 100 6 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Welcome to Tablecloth
- Javascript code for doing quick table highlighting
- (cssglobe.com 1767 100 1247 )
- [WEBDESIGN] 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
- common tips, good for beginners
- (smashingmagazine.com 1705 100 781 )
- [SQL] A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
- Jeff, where were you in 1997 when I needed this!?
- (codinghorror.com 1069 67 9 )
- [DESIGN] 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
- (smashingmagazine.com 874 100 253 )
- [DESIGN] So you want to create WordPress themes huh?
- 16 how-tos on building a wordpress theme
- (wpdesigner.com 585 100 21 )
- [SLEEPHACKS] Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter and Better
- LifeHacker has the goods on beating insomnia
- (lifehacker.com 546 68 1489 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Help! I Don’t Know JavaScript!
- Collection of intros to javascript
- (blog.mootools.net 470 10 27 )
- [GAMES] Science Museum – Launchpad Online – Launchball
- Very cool little physics simulator game.
- (sciencemuseum.org.uk 392 100 947 )
- [GIFTS] 30 Frugal Gift Ideas to Show You Appreciate Someone
- Holidays are coming up…
- (zenhabits.net 326 25 669 )
- [CODE] 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
- General, but true.
- (applematters.com 172 19 4 )
- [RUBY] Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
- Another free Ruby ebook
- (infoq.com 53 33 )
- [WEIGHTLOSS] Geek Diet and Exercise Programs
- All familiar links and photos to me, but still a good roundup.
- (codinghorror.com 44 35 46 )
- [INTERNET] The Life and Death of Jesse James
- The scariest people in the world are the lonely people, and this true story strikes it home for me with full force. This is essential reading for anyone who spends a lot of time in internet culture.
- (laweekly.com 40 18 )
- [RAILS] Two months with Ruby on Rails
- Two months checkin with what he doesn’t like about Rails
- (t-a-w.blogspot.com 39 10 )
- [BOOKS] Hard Work, No Pay: What’s the Point?
- Petzold on being an author of programming books. Response to Jeff Atwood post.
- (charlespetzold.com 30 12 )
- [TWITTER] Twitter is Paying My Rent
- Why Twitter is a great tool for a first class tech blogger.
- (marshallk.com 25 7 20 )
- [BOOKS] Expert Advice: Websites for the Book Lover
- Quite a few sites I hadn’t heard of.
- (makeuseof.com 24 4 20 )
- [DELICIOUS] Readeroo
- Simple browser extension for marking items “to be read” later and then marking them as read when you’re done.
- (monsur.com 21 5 )
- [WEB2.0] Q&A: Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail
- Uncov in wired! What.the.fuck!
- (wired.com 19 31 4 )
- [WEB2.0] Tim O’Reilly – Graphing Social Patterns
- Liveblogging notes from Tim O’Reilly’s presentation.
- (allfacebook.com 9 )
- [BOOKS] When Completing a Book Depends on Someone Else
- Blogging Heroes should be in print soon. I was interviewed for the book, not sure if I made it into the final cut.
- (mikebanks.blogspot.com)
- [COPYRIGHT] Happiness In Slavery No More: Nine Inch Nails Goes Record Label Free
- Fans and artists are learning to bypass the recording industry.
- (parislemon.com)
- [FICTION] The ride home
- From the article: ” People with happy lives don’t go on quests, they lead their happy lives.”
- (beatsentropy.com 3 )
- [CODE] Getting rid of the use global contstants file
- Another post from my old friend who used to bring me subway cookies at raves.
- (dlowe-wfh.blogspot.com)
- [MARKETING] The Smart Way to Get Traffic and Links: Creating a Prospect List for Bloggers
- This is the proper way to promote yourself with other bloggers. Get on their radar before you ever approach them about anything.
- (doshdosh.com 3 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
- What I’m Playing: PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360
- I’m on day 10 of “one of those weeks” so I haven’t had time to fully develop the usual cornucopia of rainbow-coloured blog post ideas. All of my time has been spent on work and family with a smidgen of video game playing to decompress my brain. This isn’t one of those…
- The Holiday Spread – Group Weight Loss Game
- This past weekend was Thanksgiving (aka Turkey Day) in Canada, which means seeing your family and eating a lot of food together. One of the favourite pastimes at any holiday is pointing out who’s gained weight and who hasn’t. This got me thinking: one of the principals of successful dieting…
- Best of Feeds – 34 links – programming, google, lifehacks, ruby, funny
- Tags: blogging, estimation, free, funny, google, gtd, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, search, seo, tips
This Week at IDT Labs
- [WORDPRESS] Extract Comments or Trackbacks only from the Comments Feed
- I’ve created two Yahoo Pipes for building filters of the comments feed on your WordPress blog so that you can see comments only or trackbacks only. WordPress Comment Extractor WordPress Trackback Extractor
- [RSS] Tagosphere
- Tagosphere is an example I created for Jon Udell that builds an RSS feed around a specific tag using delicious, flickr, technorati, and wordpress.com.
- [GTD] Distraction Free GTD UpdateNow with 36 applications + fixes some problems with apps that don’t support https .
Tags: blogging, design, fun, javascript, lifehacks, programming, rails, tips, usability, web2.0, webdesign, writing
Best of Feeds – 34 links – programming, google, lifehacks, ruby, funny
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to Internet Duct Tape to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [LIFEHACKS] The Printable CEO
- Collection of PDFs for task/hour tracking.
- (davidseah.com 949 100 7 )
- [BOOKMARKING] toread – an email-based bookmark service
- Simple service to use to track stuff ‘to read later’. They store the top 10 for each day. It’s like having an archive of the delicious popular list.
- (toread.cc 938 100 440 )
- [RUBY] The Little Book Of Ruby
- 85 page guide to the ruby language syntax, free ebook
- (sapphiresteel.com 492 38 28 )
- [CODE] Software Is Hard
- *Excellent* article about software estimation and Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code
- (gamearchitect.net 449 68 15 )
- [STARTUPS] The Future of Web Startups
- Paul Graham on how web startups will start to be standardized and easy to do… which will change everything.
- (paulgraham.com 443 100 671 )
- [LIFEHACKS] Top 100 Productivity Blogs
- I’m not on the list, but many there’s a lot of great finds on here.
- (whitepapers.org 440 44 53 )
- [RUBY] Ferret – full text search engine
- I’m wondering if this could be a replacement for intranet text search?
- (ferret.davebalmain.com 429 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] The Elements of JavaScript Style
- Everything you need to know about writing good javacsript.
- (javascript.crockford.com 336 30 )
- [ESTIMATION] Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics
- Nothing new, but good round-up for people who have trouble estimating.
- (webworkerdaily.com 296 36 6 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Learning JavaScript resources
- Good collection of tutorials and links about Javascript
- (juixe.com 289 4 6 )
- [CODE] Software Branching and Parallel Universes
- One of the best explanations of software branching in revision control that I’ve ever read.
- (codinghorror.com 274 34 3 )
- [GEEK] Flo Control Cat Door
- Image recognition to prevent cat from coming inside with a mouse. Why do I enjoy every link Coding Horror sends me so much?
- (quantumpicture.com 228 80 )
- [RAILS] Rails Rumble: 92 Web Apps Created in 48 Hours
- Winners from the 48 hours Rails Rumble
- (readwriteweb.com 169 28 681 )
- [FIREFOX] A Visual Guide to the Firefox Web Browser – Learn Firefox
- via: rooster
- (learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com 167 100 17 )
- [RAILS] Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications
- Free e-book for next 60 days. Probably not as good as Agile Web Development.
- (sitepoint.com 151 100 6 )
- [VIRUS] Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
- Your antivirus software is completely useless. This is scary.
- (schneier.com 104 62 14 )
- [CODE] Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1
- Using the strategy pattern vs inheritance with dark jedi examples.
- (berniecode.com 76 9 )
- [IPHONE] If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
- If you want to hack your phone (dvd player, etc) then buy a phone that lets you hack. Don’t complain about Apple’s lockin when everything they do revolves around lockin.
- (diveintomark.org 60 61 9 )
- [LIFEHACKS] 6 Rules for Dealing With Habits vs. Tasks
- Good ideas about how to build habits
- (zenhabits.net 54 8 58 )
- [BLOGGING] Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful
- Rant against blogging about blogging and ‘quick tip’ type posts.
- (cornwallseo.com 38 25 716 )
- [CODE] What I Learned From X That Made Me A Better Programmer In Y
- From the article: ” We go with Bob’s plan because Bob successfully asserted his dominance over Fred. If we’re lucky, Bob is good at making plans as well as asserting dominance, but if he’s bad at making plans but good at asserting dominance, his plan is still the plan”
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 37 3 2 )
- [HUMOR] Microsoft Search
- Microsoft Press releases shows that Microsoft Live Search will finally read the state Yahoo/Google was in 7 years ago.
- (wdr1.com 25 11 )
- [LIFEHACKS] shoutingmat.ch (lifehack)
- Interesting agreggator for posts about lifehacks.
- (lifehack.shoutingmat.ch 22 10 )
- [SEO] SEOS : The Card Counters of the Internet
- From the article: ” “Google is a casino, and you are a visitor.””
- (johnon.com 19 24 19 )
- [HUMOR] Crackbook
- Facebook parody site.
- (theinternetnowinhandybookform.com 16 17 )
- [BLOGGING] The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Bloggers
- 7 habits inverted with a view on blogging — what not to do
- (lifetrainingonline.com 12 6 13 )
- [PRESENTATIONS] Keynote (The Software) Considered Harmful
- Do presentations and demos with nothing but a whiteboard. Much more interactive.
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 9 )
- [SEO] How I reversed my Google ranking penalty
- More on how asking for links with specific anchor text can get your blog blacklisted by google. Contest bloggers be aware.
- (davidairey.com 6 15 14 )
- [HUMOR] 300: The Board Game
- I still enjoy the meme :)
- (defectiveyeti.com 5 4 )
- [GUESTBLOGGING] Get Your Guest-Posts Here
- Guestblogger for hire, Chris G.
- (chrisg.com 3 18 )
- [COPYRIGHT] Has And Belongs To Many: The Problem With Trademarking Rails
- From the article: ” Trademark rights are destructive to the cooperation and trust necessary for successful open source projects.”
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 2 )
- [RUBY] When does ( ?? == 63 ) ?
- True dat. Successfully scared me away from Ruby :)
- (sob.apotheon.org)
- [SEO] A Google Allegory at Hamlet Batista dot Com
- Asking for links with specific anchor text can get your blog blacklisted by google. Contest bloggers be aware.
- (hamletbatista.com 8 )
- [COMMUNITY] Poisonous People
- OSCON PDF slides from the SubVersion guys. Read the poisonous people one!
- (red-bean.com 5 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
- Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
- Web Runner is a tiny site-specific web application that runs using less resources than Firefox or Internet Explorer. The whole idea behind a site specific web browser is that you want to access a web application without being tempted to access other sites. You want to access a site without being…
- Magazine Review: October 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine
- I came to a rather startling discovery in the past month: magazines are just blogs with the added luxury of being able to read them while on the toilet or in the bathtub (but hopefully not both). I picked up the October issue of Inc. magazine because Joel Spolsky of Joel On Software has joined the…
- Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds
- One question I’m frequently asked is “how do you build those Best of Feeds weekly links?” The way I do it is pretty complicated, but I’ve found a much simpler way that I want to share with you all.
- Digest for September 2007
- Every month I publish a digest post collecting the best of Internet Duct Tape.
- Best of Feeds – 30 links – programming, productivity, code, socialsoftware, socialnetworking
- Tags: adsense, advice, blogging, career, code, design, development, firefox, gtd, lifehacks, productivity, programming, ruby, rubyonrails, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, tips, web2.0, webdesign
This Week at IDT Labs
- [AKISMET] Akismet Auntie Spam v2.04
- Our favorite Auntie has a new version. 2007/10/04 version 2.04 – Fixed (some) memory problems with v2.03 – Still slow, I need to get it working with a profiler, none of the hacks for Greasemonkey + Firebug seem to work.
- [DELICIOUS] Delicious Link Builder
- Build a list of links using your delicious account to bookmark them. Works great with my Yahoo Pipe Cleaner script . Example : [BOOKMARKING] toread – an email-based bookmark service Simple service to use to track stuff ‘to read later’. They store the top 10 for each day. It’s like…
- [RSS PIPE] Stupid Credit Builder
- This is a clone of Stupid Feed Rewriter that backdates the entry to January 1st, 1970. Useful for adding a credit link at the end of a list.
Tags: blogging, estimation, free, funny, google, gtd, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, search, seo, tips
Best of Feeds – 22 links – programming, blogging, tips, javascript, rails
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [GTD] Tracks
- A Ruby on Rails web app that is multiplatform and ships with it’s own web server (if needed). Implements GTD.
- (rousette.org.uk 3630 100 2 )
- [CREATIVITY] how to be creative
- From the article: ” Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.”
- (gapingvoid.com 3159 100 )
- [DESIGN] 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part 1
- 15 screenshots and links
- (ilovetypography.com 947 68 1624 )
- [GEEK] Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
- Cory Doctorow short story.
- (radaronline.com 374 100 22 )
- [HUMOR] lolsecretz – LOLCATS + POSTSECRET OMG!!!!!!!
- My memes have met and multiplied.
- (lolsecretz.blogspot.com 311 100 17 )
- [GEEK] How History Repeats Itself and the Death of Gmail
- Joel recounts the death of Lotus 1-2-3 in modern terms and explains how Google and current AJAX apps will die when they don’t realize the changing SDK.
- (joelonsoftware.com 270 100 11 )
- [CODE] 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
- Interesting take: your new code is better because your a better programmer, not because it’s a better language.
- (oreillynet.com 259 26 30 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language
- Good to know for writing Greasemonkey scripts.
- (javascript.crockford.com 259 24 7 )
- [INTERVIEWS] Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews
- Humorous but very on-point. I wonder what the style of interviewing you perform says about your company?
- (typicalprogrammer.com 221 15 5 )
- [WORKHACKS] Secrets to Amazon’s success
- From the article: ” People’s side projects, the one’s they follow because they are interested, are often ones where you get the most value and innovation. Never underestimate the power of wandering where you are most interested.”
- (37signals.com 176 26 3 )
- [CODE] Everything Is Fast For Small n
- Good overview of computational complexity and why you should always test with large datasets (on slow computers :) )
- (codinghorror.com 165 10 )
- [FIREFOX] Top 10 Firefox Extension-free Tabbed Browsing Techniques
- Things you didn’t know how to do with Firefox tabs.
- (lifehacker.com 83 )
- [EMAIL] Save Time With Search Folders in Outlook
- Use search folders to organize your email instead of putting them in different folders
- (howtogeek.com 42 4 )
- [SMO] Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
- A very interesting hypothesis about how StumbleUpon decides how much traffic to send to a site.
- (ventureskills.wordpress.com 40 19 5 )
- [EFFICIENCY] Time Saving & Automation Round-up: Let the Computer Do the Work
- Get your computer to do the heavy lifting. I can’t spell.
- (ofzenandcomputing.com 30 2 8 )
- [SMO] The Secret to Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming
- When someone promotes your post via a social media site, SAY THANK YOU and build a relationship with them.
- (successful-blog.com 26 16 75 )
- [BOOKS] Author Robert Jordan Dies
- Robert Jordan dies at 58 of a rare blood disease. Wheel of Times books left uncompleted.
- (ap.google.com 8 100 10 )
- [BLOGGING] 4 reasons to write on the weekend and 4 posts to do it with
- Mu argues against taking the weekend off from blogging
- (muhammadsaleem.com 5 6 51 )
- [LIFEHACKS] Nurture Your Relationships with Positive Flooding
- You need 5 positive actions for every 1 negative action in marriages, 3:1 for work
- (annezelenka.com 5 3 )
- [PRIVACY] A Question of Privacy
- Good overview of online privacy, data retention, cross-referencing, etc.
- (baekdal.com 5 )
- [BLOGS] Copyright Notice
- Finally a decent copyright notice for blogs! I’m going to copy it without giving any credit back.
- (angryaussie.wordpress.com 2 )
- [TV] 5 Questions Season Two of Heroes Had Better F#@king Answer
- Great wrap up of Season 1 of Heroes.
- (cracked.com 100 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
-
9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application
How do you build a web app that has traction, gain users and hopefully explodes virally? I’ve been paying attention to this space for far too long and this is a round-up of the tricks and techniques successful and not-so-successful social web applications use to promote themselves.
-
The Problem With Social Web Applications
This is an exciting time because unlike traditional software that runs on your computer [1], web applications are created as social software where you have a friends list, collaborate on a document with multiple people and it is easily to share information and communicate. The downside is these…
-
Best of Feeds – 55 links – programming, firefox, blogging, tips, lifehacks
Tags: blogging, books, business, debugging, del.icio.us, delicious, development, digg, facebook, firefox, funny, games, geek, humor, life, lifehacks, management, organization, productivity, programming, security, smo, socialbookmarking, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, stumbleupon, tips, video
This Week at IDT Labs
-
[DELICIOUS/STUMBLEUPON] Delicious Stumbles crossposting tool
Last Greasemonkey script this week :) With Delicious Stumbles I get all of the super-useful features I like about delicious (speed, recommended tags) but I also teach StumbleUpon more about what I like without having to spend all that time cutting-and-pasting between two accounts. Submit a page…
-
[WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja
My WordPress Comment Ninja extension is available for beta test. Try it out and let me know what you think! Respond directly from the comment administration panel on your dashboard Respond by comment, email or both (without having to cut-and-paste your response!) Respond using your email…
Tags: blogging, inspiration, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, strategy, stumbleupon, tips
Comments Off on Best of Feeds – 22 links – programming, blogging, tips, javascript, rails
Comments Off on Weekend Reader – javascript, friendfeed, google, lifehacks, web2.0