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Daily Find #56

Tim — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:52:43 +0000

Enabling .htaccess in OS X - This almost drove me up a wall yesterday.

Using Django with Google Apps Engine

Extract Hard Coded Strings to Resource Files

TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2008 - A ranking of popularity amount programming languages.

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HSBC - time to get new servers

Tim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:16:47 +0000

I really like HSBC, they have a nice UI interface, you can easily setup re-occuring transfers, their customer support is good, and they offer a competitive rate savings interest rate. That being said, man their servers are dead slow. This isn’t the first time either, it’s an almost every other time thing when I try to hit their website. Anyone else have issues trying to get to a HSBC web site? When I do a tracert the problem is clearly on their end. For a company that most of their customers access via the web, this isn’t good at all. I’m thinking about moving over to ING Direct.

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Great Financial Quote

Tim — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:27:13 +0000

You gotta love this quote about the recent Stock Market surge:

"The reason we’ve rallied the last three or four days is people are saying ‘Hey, even if this paper is worth less than people think, the Fed is willing come in a buy it at some level,’" said Charlie Smith, chief investment officer at Fort Pitt Capital Group.

I am so much more optimistic about our economy now

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080324/wall_street.html

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Ruby on Rails for Windows Developers

Tim — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:12:15 +0000

Until IronRuby comes out 100% I’m going to be diving into RoR. It’s obvious RoR was constructed by *nix people so I’m hoping I’m not making it even harder on myself by trying to do this on Windows but here goes anyways.

Resources I’ve Found:

Windows

RailsOnWindows - Start here…

O’Reilly ONLamp.com - Step by Step from installing Ruby to MySQL and so on.

Instant Rails - one stop Rails runtime solution, includes Ruby, Rails, Apache, MySQL all preconfigured to run

RubyStack - Another click installer that brings over Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Apache

Installing Rails on Windows, Step by Step Tutorial

IDE

RadRails - Windows IDE for Rails, Dave likes.

Mondrian Ruby IDE

Arachno Ruby IDE

Ruby In Steel - Plugin for Visual Studio

Tutorials

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Tutorial

Joining The Lounge

Tim — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:17:01 +0000

So it’s official, I’m now part of the advertising network, The Lounge. James Avery has put together some great blogs in the .NET Small Publishers Room that I’m now apart of so I’ll be ramping up the quality and quantity of post here to stay up with these guys. It’s a great opportunity for advertisers to get in front of developers/IT in a cost effective and most importantly (too me anyway’s) a measurable medium. More details here, don’t wait to sign up I hear the room is filling up quickly.

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WTF/Minute Code Reviews

Tim — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:30:36 +0000

via http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m

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Microsoft Buying Yahoo

Tim — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:58:07 +0000

Wow, 46 billion dollars. I wonder what this means to the Yahoo PHP teams and YUI. As far as I understood Yahoo is heavily invested in PHP. More to come on this.

Bloomberg.

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Daily Find #22

Tim — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:50:51 +0000

Lightbox extension for BlogEngine.Net

SQLite on .NET - SQLite is the DB of choice for fast, small footprint architecture. Think Mobile OS or Google Gears. Speaking of Google Gears where is Microsoft’s version?

Best C# Web Sites - Most are community based, some are tutorial like sites, still a nice collection

How to Add Holidays to Outlook 2007 Calendar

More Free HTML/CSS based website templates and another one here - If you didn’t already need more - via DevHawk

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5 year old, whisky, & football

Tim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:55:05 +0000

How in the world do these 3 thing things relate? It’s not easy but let me share with you the best conversation I’ve had in while.

So last night my 5 year old, Nick, and I are watching the Lakers survive a comeback attempt by the Rockets. Nick always wants to know whom I’m "Yeahing for". We also use the game to keep up on his numbers, who has more, less, how much by-it’s a good way to keep him sharp and for me to get my NBA fix. Anyway’s, they flash some highlights of a Timber Wolves game and Nick belts out "Hey is that the whiskies team I saw play". Ahh, maybe I heard that wrong, repeat. Oh yeah, he said whiskies. "Duh, Dad, I went to the football game last week with Grandpa, UC was playing the Whiskies." Not Whiskies I pointed out to him, they played the Connecticut Huskies.

I laughed for a good bit over that one.

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New Gmail 2.0 Version Today

Tim — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:28:25 +0000

There is a new version of Gmail out today, my account got upgraded not entirely sure if everyones has. It seems much faster, although it did make me disable firebug. Gmail Label Colors is broke and so is Better Gmail. Hopefully they’ll be a fix coming soon cause I’m not use to the “old” gmail and MIGHT be willing to switch over to the new Live.com since you can FINALLY get a live.com address.

Update - You can go back to the previous version of Gmail - Top Right Corner -> Previous Version

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