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Saturday, March 5

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by Scribbler on Sat 05 Mar 2005 06:01 PM PST

Elite Journal
Rails-based blog/journal system
Tags: blog, ruby
Scratch -- Minimalist Blog software approach
This system realizes that most readers are consuming blog entries via RSS or Atom and viewed through their favorite app. Interesting approach.
Tags: blog, ruby
pdumpfs: a daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs
Tags: backup, ruby

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Tuesday, March 1

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by Scribbler on Tue 01 Mar 2005 06:00 PM PST

Yahoo! Search Web Services
Yahoo! Search Web Services allow you to access Yahoo content and services in your favorite programming languages. This means you can now build Yahoo directly into your own applications.
Tags: api, yahoo
geom(4)
modular disk I/O request transformation framework.
Tags: freebsd, vinum
FreeBSD Mail Archives - Thoughts from Scott Long
Some compelling reasons for choosing FreeBSD
Tags: freebsd, os

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Saturday, February 19

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by Scribbler on Sat 19 Feb 2005 06:00 PM PST

AJ-Fork: News and Blogging tool extraordinaire! {168}
AJ-Fork. Lightweight, flexible and powerful publishing tool. Forked off Cutenews 1.3.1 in 2003, and in active development since then (minus one years worth of military service). Aims to have a pretty but functional interface, output XHTML Strict compliant code, and has a plugin architecture similar (though not yet as extensive) to Wordpress.
Tags: blog, client

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Thursday, February 10

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by Scribbler on Thu 10 Feb 2005 06:00 PM PST

The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager
The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America's name choices. Start with a "sea" of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you'll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century.
Tags: baby, names
Ultimate Flash Face v0.42b
Identikit done in Flash. Cool.
Tags: flash

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Thursday, February 3

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by Scribbler on Thu 03 Feb 2005 06:00 PM PST

BlogBridge
BlogBridge is a new kind of Blog Reader, making it practical for a non-technical user to discover, follow and enjoy literally hundreds of feeds without losing their mind.
Tags: agg, local

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Monday, January 31

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by Scribbler on Mon 31 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

Fiddler HTTP Debugger - Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet.
Tags: debug, http, windows
gTLD Registrars as of Jan 2004
Tags: domains, registrar

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Sunday, January 30

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by Scribbler on Sun 30 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

PL/Ruby
PL/Ruby is a loadable procedural language for the Postgres database system that enable the Ruby language to create functions and trigger procedures
Tags: pgsql, ruby
SNMP Library for Ruby
Tags: ruby, sysadmin

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Friday, January 28

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by Scribbler on Fri 28 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

Wee - A Ruby framework
Wee is a light-weight, very high-level and modern web-framework that makes Web engineering easy.
Tags: ruby, toread
djberg96: Extra methods for the IO class
Tags: dev, ruby

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Thursday, January 27

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by Scribbler on Thu 27 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

Random Bytes...by Ross Rader :: Google to Develop Global IP Backbone?
Thoughts on Google potentially buying dark fiber
Tags: google
Delibar - Mac OSX client for del.icio.us
Tags: delicious, mac
Jots & Sketches: Pestilence and plague Archives
Treating the wicked winnter cold. We've had it in this house too, perhaps Hans' regime will work for me.
Tags: cold, medical, treatment
Ming/Ruby - a generating SWF library for Ruby based on Ming
Tags: flash, ruby
HTTP Protocol Error Codes
List of valid http error codes and brief description of each
Tags: http, reference
Zen Spider Website: Version 3.2
Tags: freebsd, metaruby, ruby

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Wednesday, January 26

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by Scribbler on Wed 26 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

BlogSpirit - Free blogging community
Tags: blog, free
Gnomolicious a GNOME way to post at del.icio.us
Gnomolicious is an GNOME applet that help you post links on the del.icio.us site simply by drag'n'dropping them
Tags: delicious, gnome, sb
Physics of Water - by Steve W. Woodruff
Some interesting notes on water. I guess I won't be seeing bottles of compressed water any time soon.
Tags: reference

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Tuesday, January 25

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by Scribbler on Tue 25 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? (kottke.org)
Simple question with lots of answers from various people - Some make me fearful, like there are a crap-load of dark/crazy/brilliant people out there.
Tags: reference, toread
Macminicolo
colo service based on the macmini. Starting at $29 mo.
Tags: colo, cool, macmini
Needle Manual :: Chapter 1: Introduction
Needle is a dependency injection (also, inversion of control) container for Ruby.
Tags: dev, ruby
SimpleFeed WELCOME
With SimpleFeed, customers subscribe using RSS to product
Tags: marketing, rss
SpellBound - Spellchecker for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite
SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements...
Tags: firefox, spell

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Monday, January 24

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by Scribbler on Mon 24 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

IbuildHowto - LiveCD wiki
Intellibuild is a set of scripts that aim to help Morphix and Knoppix remasterers do their job by efficiently producing modified remasters
Tags: debian, howto, linux, portable
Visual folksonomy explanation : Atomiq
After reading Thomas's folksonomy explanations this morning, I came up with this diagram to show the differences between tagging approaches
Tags: sb, tags
Ben Goodger getting paid by Google now.
As of January 10, 2005, my source of income changed from The Mozilla Foundation to Google, Inc. of Mountain View, California. My role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged, I will continue doing much the same work as I have described above - with the new goal of successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases.
Tags: firefox, goodger, google
Subway
The Subway project aims to create a Web development stack for Python similar to Ruby on Rails
Tags: dev, python
Useful JS tools for Railers
Tags: js, rails, ruby
Kill Your Television TurnOffYourTV.com
Tags: parenting, reference, tv
Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com
Mark Cuban's blog
Tags: blog, toread
http-access2 - Trac
http-access2' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.
Tags: ruby
Rich clients with Rails and XUL
Tags: firefox, ruby, xul
Rocketinfo - Current News, RSS and Business Information Technologies
The Rocketinfo Search API provides independent software vendors (ISV's) and business partners with easy to integrate search tools
Tags: agg, rss

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Sunday, January 23

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by Scribbler on Sun 23 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

Typo - Simple blog software
Typo is the smallest possible weblog. It doesn’t have an admin interface at all and its based on sqlite. It took about 6 hours to write and most of the work was put into the XMLRPC backend.
Tags: blog, ruby
Error Message Generator
Visit the Error Gallery or create your own error message here
Tags: cool
podFeeder - podcast repository
Tags: agg, podcast
About Us - Ciphire Labs
Ciphire Labs core competencies are cryptographic research and development, and the operation of highly secure data centers.
Tags: crypto, mail, pgp
Silicon Valley Watcher: Scoop! Google to provide AdWords API to Advertisers
Google is about to announce technology that will allow its advertisers unprecedented levels of control over when, where, and who can view their advertising on Google search pages and those of Google partner web sites
Tags: adwords, google
Allen's Blog: Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs
Whenever you're approaching a VC firm for funding, it's always optimal (surprise!) to connect with the partner in the firm who has the closest investment interest to the space your startup is going after.
Tags: vc

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Saturday, January 22

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by Scribbler on Sat 22 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

vsftpd - Secure, fast FTP server for UNIX-like systems
Tags: ftpd
Pablotron: Rubilicious
Delicious bindings for Ruby.
Tags: delicious, ruby
Slashdot | Streaming a Database in Real Time
The company claims it can process 140,000 messages per second on a $1,500 PC, when its competitors can only deal with 900 messages per second.
Tags: db
Bookmarklet Crunchinator
Generate bookmarklet-friendly code from JS
Tags: js
What You'll Wish You'd Known
Intersting essay directed towards the younger crowd who might feel intimidated by what they're supposed to do next. Regrets? It's all an accident to a certain degree.
Tags: essays, reflection

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Friday, January 21

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by Scribbler on Fri 21 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

“groovy mother” :: Hiding referer spam in AWStats
Tags: comments, spam, stats
BlogBridge
"BlogBridge is a new kind of Blog Reader, making it practical for a non-technical user to discover, follow and enjoy literally hundreds of feeds without losing their mind".
Tags: agg, blog, windows
Cell Architecture Explained: Introduction
Designed for the PlayStation 3, Sony, Toshiba and IBM's new "Cell processor" promises seemingly obscene computing capabilities for what will rapidly become a very low price
Tags: cpu, doc

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Thursday, January 20

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by Scribbler on Thu 20 Jan 2005 06:01 PM PST

Mapping The World By Heart: Airport Codes
Tags: ICAO, data, zips
NewsHosting :: Home Page
(YAPNAP) Yet another personal nntp access provider
Tags: nntp
QuackTrack : World's Largest Browsable Blog Index
Tags: agg, blog
feedbeep :: rss notification
Receive notifications of new entries in watched RSS feeds via your sms-capable phone
Tags: rss
Fry's Electronics Ad
Weekly ads for Fry's
Tags: deals
YamlInFiveMinutes - YAML Implementors Site
YAML is extremely simple to learn. The basics are extraordinarily simple. You may even find that you have unintentionally used YAML syntax when building lists or simple file formats.
Tags: yaml
PragDave - Transparent Inversion of Control
Tags: dev, ruby
Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists.
Tags: gtd, ruby, todo

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Wednesday, January 19

Daily Jots [jots.com]

by Scribbler on Wed 19 Jan 2005 06:01 PM PST

XMLHttpRequest Demo
Tags: js, ruby

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Tuesday, January 18

Daily Jots [jots.com]

by Scribbler on Tue 18 Jan 2005 06:01 PM PST

Ruby: RubyExam
Do you know Ruby? Prove it here.
Tags: ruby
The OS-level spell check and speed typing software
Windows spell checker, inline, the TheBat!
Tags: gui, spell_check

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Monday, January 17

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by Scribbler on Mon 17 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

Home Plans, House Plans, Floor Plans - Industry Leader in House Plans Since 1946, Homeplans.com
Good starting point if you plan on building your own home
Tags: blueprints, home, plans
Eep, Another Foxylicious Release
Tags: delicious, firefox
WordPress Multiuser
Wordpress for hosting environments. Still in Alpha
Tags: blog, wordpress

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Saturday, January 15

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by Scribbler on Sat 15 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

taggregator
Aggregates delicious and flickr. Very cool
Tags: agg, delicious, flickr, tag

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Wednesday, January 12

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by Scribbler on Wed 12 Jan 2005 06:01 PM PST

Net::SSH -- An SSH client in, and for, Ruby
Tags: dev, ruby
George Ou » VoIP and open source, the next great frontier - ZDNet.com
Run your own telecom locally using voip for under $6000.
Tags: article, voip
oishii! - ephemeral pheromonal de.icio.us-ness
Oishii is kind of a del.icio.us mini-zeitgeist. oishii! polls the del.icio.us front page every 15 minutes, and returns all sites bookmarked by at least 30 people
Tags: delicious, sb
Ruby: DistributedPipes with DRb
Tags: dev, ruby

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Tuesday, January 11

Daily Jots [jots.com]

by Scribbler on Tue 11 Jan 2005 06:01 PM PST

Nagios: OpenSource systems monitoring
Tags: sysadmin

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Monday, January 10

Daily Jots [jots.com]

by Scribbler on Mon 10 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

KirbyBase: Flatfile DBMS
KirbyBase is a simple, pure-Python or pure-Ruby, flat-file database management system, with a few twists
Tags: db, python, ruby
DIY Map: Create clickable maps of the U.S or the World with configurable data
Tags: flash, map

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Wednesday, January 5

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by Scribbler on Wed 05 Jan 2005 06:01 PM PST

Del.Icio.Us Candy
Konfabulator widget for drag/drop URLs to tags. So cool. But broken at the moment.
Tags: delicious, konfab
Ruby/TZFile - time library using tzfile
Ruby/TZFile generates classes like Time class but uses tzfile
Tags: ruby
RubyScript2Exe
RubyScript2Exe transforms your Ruby script into a standalone Windows or Linux executable.
Tags: dev, ruby

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Monday, January 3

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by Scribbler on Mon 03 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

26steps to 15k a Day
The following will build a successful site in 1 years time via Google alone.
Tags: gtd, seo

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Sunday, January 2

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by Scribbler on Sun 02 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

RedHanded » DRb
Remember the importance of $SAFE
Tags: ruby, security

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Saturday, January 1

Daily Jots [jots.com]

by Scribbler on Sat 01 Jan 2005 06:00 PM PST

Ruby Buzz Forum - YAML 1.1 Working Draft
Tags: yaml

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Friday, December 31

Daily Jots [jots.com]

by Scribbler on Fri 31 Dec 2004 06:00 PM PST

Platypus
Platypus is a powerful developer tool for creating application wrappers around scripts, i.e. for creating MacOS X applications that execute a bundled script.
Tags: dev, gui, mac

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Thursday, December 30

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by Scribbler on Thu 30 Dec 2004 06:01 PM PST

Browser Security Test
Scanit's Browser Security Test automatically checks your browser for various security problems.
Tags: browser, security
Rubric
Del.icio.us clone. Doesn't appear to have a way to create an account -- Or I'm missing the link.
Tags: delicious, sb

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Tuesday, December 28

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by Scribbler on Tue 28 Dec 2004 06:01 PM PST

Blogdigger Groups - Beta
Blogdigger Groups allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs making the combined content easily accessible all at once
Tags: agg, rss

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