Zen Cart

Zen Cart ecommerce solution

"Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software."

Braintree Payment Solutions

Braintree Payment Solutions

"We help online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing and credit card storage."

Syntastic Plugin for Vim

vim online: Syntastic - Automatic syntax checking

"Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs buffers through external syntax checkers as they are saved and opened. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them."

Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store - Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

"Apt-Cacher differs from apt-mirror in that it does not mirror the entire repository contents, but simply caches (stores) any packages requested by clients within the network. In other words, it works as a middle man between the public repository and the LAN clients, sharing any common downloads internally."

Beautiful Markup

Envy Labs - Beautiful Markup

"One of the best talks at Railsconf was given by John Athayde on Curing Div-itis with Semantic Html, CSS, and Presenters"

Hanselminutes - Developers and Designers

Hanselminutes #222

"Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites?"

This was a good discussion. Enjoyed Jin Yang's practical view of being a designer.

Screem HTML/XML Editor

Screem HTML/XML Editor

"In addition to excelling as an HTML editor, SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment."

How to Lose Time and Money

How to Lose Time and Money

"The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work."

Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco

Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco

"You look forward to the first hit of the game. I tell them to call a play where somebody misses a block. If you don't get hit, you're always waiting for it to happen. It's better to get it out of the way early."

I like this quote from Joe Montana. It seems applicable to more than just football.

(via a Twitter post from @davewiner)

Limelight

Limelight

"Limelight is a rich client GUI framework unlike any other... Unlike many other frameworks, Limelight applications are built using only one language: Ruby."

Pairwise Testing

Pairwise Testing

"Pairwise (a.k.a. all-pairs) testing is an effective test case generation technique that is based on the observation that most faults are caused by interactions of at most two factors. Pairwise-generated test suites cover all combinations of two therefore are much smaller than exhaustive ones yet still very effective in finding defects"

jVi

JJinuxLand: Vim: jVi

"jVi is a plugin for NetBeans that provides Vim-like key bindings. The good news is that it's close enough to be comfortable instead of frustrating."

Vim for TextMate Fans

Alex Young: Vim for TextMate Fans:

"Then I found TextMate for Mac OS. The immediacy of TextMate made it easy to get started with, and it has many excellent features. The problem is, I’m not always using a Mac. But you know who’ll follow me around to every platform I use? Good old vim! So I started thinking, how could I make vim feel more like TextMate?"

Charles Petzold - New Book on Windows Phone 7 Series

Charles Petzold is working on a new book about Windows Phone Seven Series Seven Phone Seven Series Phone.

Free ebook to be published later this year. Preview excerpts available now.

Windows Phone

Microsoft: Windows Phone - Developer Home

CalSky

CalSky.com

CalSky was founded in 1991 by Arnold Barmettler to offer amateur astronomers a new way to plan their observing sessions and to consult scientist and industry regarding questions related to astronomy and celestial mechanics.

Stuff

Just stuff I'm researching. No need to follow these links (unless you really want to).

Parsing Non-Standard Text File Formats with the Script Component

O'Reilly - Safari Books Online: Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition

SQLIS.com

SQLIS - SQL Server Integration Services - SSIS: Community site for Integration Services run by Microsoft SQL Server MVPs Darren Green and Allan Mitchell.

Nifty Generators

GitHub - ryanb's nifty-generators

"A collection of useful Rails generator scripts for scaffolding, layout files, authentication, and more."

Introducing BDD

DanNorth.net - Introducing BDD

"I found the shift from thinking in tests to thinking in behaviour so profound that I started to refer to TDD as BDD, or behaviour- driven development."

Librelist

Librelist.com

"Librelist is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects... You can make a mailing list by simply sending an email... You also subscribe to a list by simply sending your first message..."

Pro Git

Pro Git - Pro Git Book

"This is the website for the Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. Here you can find the full content of the book, a blog with tips and updates about Git and the book and open source projects related to Git or referenced in the book."

NDFD Database Contents

NDFD Database Contents

Head first into javascript (and jQuery)

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Head first into javascript (and jQuery):

"Once the CSS was done, I was informed that I’d now need to take the tabular reporting table I just created and make it sort on any of the columns, get the data via AJAX calls to a flat file that would store the JSON for the dummy data, create nice drop-down date pickers so date ranges in the report could be chosen by the end user, page the data using a flickr-style pager so only 20 lines would show up on a page, and alternate the row colors in the table (and make sure that doesn’t break when you sort!)."

Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Microsoft IIS Web Deployment Tool

Web Deployment Tool : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

"The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites."

django-firebird

Via Firebird News: Blog post, Django meets Firebird, talks about the django-firebird project.

Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync

Backup Central - Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync

"With rsync (which is built into both MacOS, Linux, & FreeBSD, and can be installed on Windows) and a little shell scripting, you can mimic everything but the GUI and you don't need no stinking sparse files. I even wrote a little script that I'll share with you at the end of this post."

Must try this when I get some more storage.

RSSOwl

Overview | RSSOwl - Powerful RSS / RDF / Atom News Feed Reader

"Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or 'aggregators.' RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It's easy to configure and the best of all: It's platform-independent."

Amanda Ripley : Homeland Security for Grown-Ups

Amanda Ripley : Blog : Homeland Security for Grown-Ups:

"Terrorism is a psychological war as much as a physical war. To win such a war, it is essential not to overreact. That is the crux of the matter. If you overreact, you become a force multiplier for the terrorists."

And if you multiply that force, and you are in the business of making the public safe^TM, you profit from it and gain power.

Is aviation security mostly for show?

Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com:

"There is a difference between indomitability and arrogant 'bring 'em on' rhetoric. There's a difference between accepting the inherent risk that comes with a free and open society, and hyping the threats.

We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice -- not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer."

I think this is an excellent article by Bruce Schneier. It takes courage to be free. Too many would rather just be safe^TM.

gdocbackup

Project Hosting on Google Code - gdocbackup

"GDocBackup exports all documents from Google Documents to local hard-disk. Runs on NET 2.0 / Mono (Win, Linux and Mac)"

Solstice

Solstice

RCA Digital Voice Recorder in Linux

Using an RCA Digital Voice Recorder in Linux

"Despite the .VOC extension, they are not Creative Labs Sound Files. RCA-VOC is an undocumented proprietary format starting with the signature 'VCP162_VOC_File', not 'Creative Voice File'.

On March 28, 2008, I finally solved this format..."

Code as Design

Developer Dot Star: Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves by Jack W. Reeves

"The following essays by Jack W. Reeves offer three perspectives on a single theme, namely that programming is fundamentally a design activity and that the only final and true representation of 'the design' is the source code itself"

Fluent in 3 months

Fluent in 3 months

My posts will be aimed at learners of any language, but I will be using those that I know as an example, including the one I happen to be currently learning. I will also be talking about specific languages.Now that I can see how easy it is to learn languages, I am constantly travelling to new countries and staying there (for around 3 months usually) and immersing myself in the language, although it can just as easily be done in the comfort of your own home with the right tools and attitude.

Access and PowerShell

Creating an Access database - Richard Siddaway's Blog

"In this series of articles I’ll show how to work with data contained in Access databases using PowerShell."

Digital Pickle

Digital Pickle - Digital Imaging Services

"We scan and digitize photos, slides, and negatives of any format using high-end commercial scanners that produce unmatched image quality."

LyX

LyX - The Document Processor

"LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface."

extpascal

extpascal - Project Hosting on Google Code

"ExtPascal is an Object Pascal (Delphi, FreePascal/Lazarus) wrapper/binding for Ext JS, a complete GUI Ajax framework, made in JavaScript, for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development."

FastSpring

FastSpring

"FastSpring provides an all-in-one e-commerce payment processing, merchandising, and fulfillment solution."

AllChars

AllChars

"AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents... and special characters... in most Windows programs."

See also: Compose Key

Via: Derek Sivers

dynaTrace AJAX Edition

Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues - dynaTrace AJAX Edition