best-of-feeds &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://en.wordpress.com/tag/best-of-feeds/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "best-of-feeds" Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:29:24 +0000 http://en.wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[Weekend Reader - friendfeed, startup, web2.0, xbox360, search]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/weekend-reader-friendfeed-startup-web20-xbox360-search/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:43:59 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/weekend-reader-friendfeed-startup-web20-xbox360-search/

Weekly Links

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.

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  • Social Media — What is it Good For?
    I took a three month break from blogging and social media sites so that I could focus 100% on a critical project at work. Strangely enough I didn’t miss the flow of information; I was still able to find interesting links for coffee break time by browing Hackers News. Here’s a break down of my experience from leaving for so long and rejoining it.
  • Building a Better Job Search Site
    Job hunting is a massive industry, but unfortunately it’s one that that always leaves job hunters feeling unsatisfied. Monster and Dice are painful to use. The hierarchy trees of job categories are often incorrect and confusing to someone who is looking for a job.I’d love to see something different.
  • How the Xbox 360 Can Reinvented Itself
    The entertainment industry is shifting. Video games dominate all forms of media as an estimated 46 billion dollar industry. Your local video chain likely carries as many video games as it does DVDs. Blueray has beaten HD-DVD as the new media for watching movies at home, but it has the potential to be squashed by digital downloads. Not watching movies on your computer, but rather watching them on a box that is already hooked up to your entertainment system: your gaming console.Here’s what I’d like to see changed about the Xbox 360
  • Weekend Reader – programming, drm, api, google, copyright
    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.[CODE] Neal Stephenson on programming, lambda-the-ultimate.org

    What programming [...]

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]]> <![CDATA[Weekend Reader - friendfeed, blogging, technology, programming, wordpress]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/weekend-reader-friendfeed-blogging-technology-programming-wordpress/ Sun, 25 May 2008 17:56:29 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/weekend-reader-friendfeed-blogging-technology-programming-wordpress/

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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.

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  • Filtering Reddit and Hacker News

    What’s wrong with all of these “social web application sites”:

    People who waste their own time have, in effect, more votes than people who value it – to elevate bad but popular ideas and irretrievably sink independent thinking.

    It’s analogous to what’s wrong with the entire massively online roleplaying game genre (eg: World of Warcraft) in that success is a greater factor of the time invested than of skill or talent. Many social web applications add extra features to keep the users interacting with the site, even if this interaction offers dubious value to their lives.

  • Weekend Reader – blogging, twitter, marketing, funny, lifehacks

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This Week at IDT Labs

IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

  • [WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja 0.61
    - Fixed duplicate comment anchors in WP 2.5
    - Remove the different colouring for comments that aren’t yours on multi-author blogs (too distracting)

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]]> <![CDATA[Weekend Reader - programming, lifehacks, code, blogging, funny]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/weekend-reader-programming-lifehacks-code-blogging-funny/ Sat, 10 May 2008 14:57:20 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/weekend-reader-programming-lifehacks-code-blogging-funny/

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  • 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.

  • Weekend Reader – twitter, blogging, usability, webdesign, bsg

This Week at IDT Labs

IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

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    ]]>         <![CDATA[Weekend Reader - twitter, blogging, usability, webdesign, bsg]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/weekend-reader-twitter-blogging-usability-webdesign-bsg/ Sat, 03 May 2008 15:30:30 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/weekend-reader-twitter-blogging-usability-webdesign-bsg/

    Weekly Links

    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.

    This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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    This Week at IDT Labs

    IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Who Are You? v0.4

      This is a massive update to the Who Are You? script. This script is insanely useful for browsing your friends and strangers on Friend Feed.

      • shows who they are on all of their servicesshows which friends you have in commonshows which friends you don’t have in common

        • Adds a “Who are you?” link on profile pages AND on that little popup box when you hover over a name.Clicking on the link

      If you use the script from someone’s profile page, you’ll get the little user popup on all of their friends (which you can then use to browse all of THAT person’s friends).

    • [FRIENDFEED] Show Usernames

      Because I find it annoying as well having 12 friends with the exact same first name and no last name.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Import Your Twitter Contacts v0.0.4

      I’ve updated my Twitter importer to v0.0.4.The new version does a better job of guessing who your Tweeps are on Friend Feed.

      It also supports setting up the username / passwords on the command line so that you can make a schedule task to run the program.

    • [REDDIT] Rusty Pipes Are Flowing Again

      Some of my old pipes for Reddit.com are working again.Reddit Feed Redirector will make the links in a reddit RSS feed go to the comments page instead of the item linked.

      Social Site Submission Watchdog keeps track of when your site is added to Digg/Reddit.

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    ]]>         <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - blogging, windows, codinghorror, amazon, shopping]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/delicious-links-20-links-blogging-windows-codinghorror-amazon-shopping/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:37:37 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/delicious-links-20-links-blogging-windows-codinghorror-amazon-shopping/

    Weekly Links

    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.

    This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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    • What Have You Done For You Lately?
      For Earth Day this year I decided I was going to try to make a real change by commuting to work under my own power instead of using my car. I’ve been riding a wave of endorphin high as my body goes through the shock of experiencing exercise again for the first time in a long while. I can feel the winter doldrums lifting [1], and I asked myself: when was the last time I did something that makes a positive change in my life?
    • Lifestreaming 101 – Don’t Cross the Streams

      History has a tendency to repeat itself, mostly because the inventors weren’t old enough to have been around the first time. Having a blog is the same as having a BBS twenty years earlier; using Twitter is the same as using IRC. Of course there are differences [1], but progress is built on the shoulders of giants.Like how 2007 was the year of microblogging, 2008 is the year of lifestreaming. People are becoming more comfortable with the idea after learning to swim in Facebook’s pond [2], and they’re ready to start swimming into the raging rivers of the public Internet. But before these neophyte tadpoles start eating flies, there’s one thing they need to learn:

      Don’t cross the streams.

    • How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to Friend Feed
      I’ve commented before that Friend Feed makes for a really sweet Twitter client because of the way it threads replies and how easy it is to reply to another user. The only problem is trying to find all of your Twitter contacts on Friend Feed.

      I’ve written a program that uses Google’s social graph to find the links between Twitter users and Friend Feed users. Download the program, run it, enter your passwords and watch it find and subscribe to all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed.

    • Delicious Links – 20 links – blogging, google, webdev, marketing, lifehacks

    This Week at IDT Labs

    IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Import Your Twitter Contacts v0.0.4

      I’ve updated my Twitter importer to v0.0.4.The new version does a better job of guessing who your Tweeps are on Friend Feed.

      It also supports setting up the username / passwords on the command line so that you can make a schedule task to run the program.

    • [REDDIT] Rusty Pipes Are Flowing Again

      Some of my old pipes for Reddit.com are working again.Reddit Feed Redirector will make the links in a reddit RSS feed go to the comments page instead of the item linked.

      Social Site Submission Watchdog keeps track of when your site is added to Digg/Reddit.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Tweak Refresh Rate

      This was a request from Tony because he wanted to change how often Friend Feed autorefreshes and reloads the page. The default setting is 2 minutes, but I’ve created a Greasemonkey script where you can tweak the value (to over 2 minutes).

    • [WORDPRESS] Big Excerpts

      I’m not quite sure on what planet having a 4 line text entry for the Excerpt field on WordPress blog posts is usable. On my planet you need to be able to see what you’re typing. Especially when you have to enter the HTML by hand.

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    ]]>         <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - blogging, google, webdev, marketing, lifehacks]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/delicious-links-20-links-blogging-google-webdev-marketing-lifehacks/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:30:32 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/delicious-links-20-links-blogging-google-webdev-marketing-lifehacks/

    Weekly Links

    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.

    This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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    • Who Moved My Cheese? The New WordPress Admin Interface
      Two of my blogging heroes and inspiration Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have joined together on a new venture called StackOverflow: overflowing with awesomeness. They are also doing a weekly podcast, and you can download the first 45 minute podcast here (8 MB). In the discussion, Joel makes a great comment: Windows Vista gives you change without giving you any value. As a Windows XP user there is no compelling reason to upgrade because you’re going to have to relearn where everything is, but you don’t get any new and compelling features or applications to offset that.

      This perfectly explained my resistance to the new WordPress 2.5 admin interface.

    • Put a Copyright Notice in Your RSS Feed
      As a blogger, your content is going to end up being stolen and republished on the Internet. It’s a fact of life, there’s nothing you can do about it. One thing you can do however is put a copyright notice in your RSS feed with FeedBurner.
    • Delete It – Tips for Managing Information Overload
      We’re deep into the beginning of the Information Age, as you can see from the propagation of information aggregators like Google Reader and the meta-aggregators like Friend Feed. There’s only one tip for handling information saturation that has any success: delete it.
    • Delicious Links – 20 links – google, blogging, wordpress, twitter, lifehacks

    This Week at IDT Labs

    IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Tweak Refresh Rate

      This was a request from Tony because he wanted to change how often Friend Feed autorefreshes and reloads the page. The default setting is 2 minutes, but I’ve created a Greasemonkey script where you can tweak the value (to over 2 minutes).

    • [WORDPRESS] Big Excerpts

      I’m not quite sure on what planet having a 4 line text entry for the Excerpt field on WordPress blog posts is usable. On my planet you need to be able to see what you’re typing. Especially when you have to enter the HTML by hand.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Hiding the Oldies

      Hides any entries older than a week from your Friend Feed.

    • [FRIENDFEED] Put Alert Thingy and Twhirl to bed
      I wrote a script that humorously changed the ‘via Application’ messages on Friend Feed to say “in bed”.

    This Week at Ruby, eh?

    Ruby, eh? is where I blog/tumble about the Ruby programming language.

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    ]]>         <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - google, blogging, wordpress, twitter, lifehacks]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/delicious-links-20-links-google-blogging-wordpress-twitter-lifehacks/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:29:45 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/delicious-links-20-links-google-blogging-wordpress-twitter-lifehacks/

    Weekly Links

    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.

    This Week at IDT Labs

    This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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    ]]>         <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 17 links - wordpress, webdesign, productivity, google, search]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/delicious-links-17-links-wordpress-webdesign-productivity-google-search/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:17:40 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/delicious-links-17-links-wordpress-webdesign-productivity-google-search/

    Weekly Links

    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.

      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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      • Battery Charged or Not
        The problem: It’s 3am and the wireless mouse has run out of juice. Scrounging through the battery drawer shows 13 double-A’s, but none of them have a charge.
      • Controlling Your Privacy
        Today I tried out a new service by one of the smartest guys I know, Michael Geist. It’s called iOptOut and it’s a gateway for Canadians to voluntarily put themselves on do-not-call lists *before* the company contacts you, as well as giving you a legal recourse for when they call you anyways (those bastards). Within hours of signing up for the service I got 8 calls from 1-480-543-1171. Spooky coincidence.
      • Presenting: Livejournal Theme for WordPress
        You know the story. You’ve been using LiveJournal since 1999. It’s your home. You’re familiar with it. You’re on the list of notable LiveJournal users. But times they be a changin’. You’re friends are all leaving LiveJournal for WordPress because it’s a better C-M-S (whatever that is). You’ve switched to WordPress, but everything looks strange and confusing.

        Don’t worry, as usual engtech has your back.

      • How to Get an RSS Feed for your XBOX 360 Gamertag
        My geek want of the day is getting an RSS feed of my Xbox 360 game activity so that I can use it with lifestreaming services. I’m not sure why Microsoft doesn’t make an RSS feed of your Xbox Live activity available. The information is all there, they publish it as a gamercard. But they don’t give you access to the raw data to do with as you please.

        Here are the various ways you can access your Xbox 360 Gamercard to use with other websites.

      • Delicious Links – 20 links – friendfeed, blogging, javascript, psychology, startup
        This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet.

      This Week at IDT Labs

      • [FRIENDFEED] Easy Unsubscribe v0.1
        Add an unsubscribe link to individual user pages.
      • [FRIENDFEED] Who Are You? v0.1
        Show more information about who people are beside their profile picture.
      • Sneak Preview
      • [FRIENDFEED] Even More Expander v0.3
        - Bug fix: had problems if there were several “more >>” links.
        - Bug fix: didn’t work well with pagerization
      • [FRIENDFEED] By Service v0.5
        - Dynamically grabs the list of services once per day.
        - It should always display the latest services.
        - When you’re on a users’ page, it’ll add options to filter by the specific services they use.
        - When you’re on the main page it will hover in place in the sidebar
      • [FRIENDFEED] Remove Visited Links v0.4
      • Hides the visited links using Friend Feed’s “hide entry” function. The entry will be hidden across multiple computers. You can see the hidden entry at the bottom of the page using the normal “show hidden entries” mechanism.How awesome is this? When you read Friend Feed at work, you don’t see the same entries when you come home because it’s persistent across different computers (since it’s using the FF site itself).When you read reddit, digg, stumbleupon etc you don’t see the same links in Friend Feed.This is the bees knees when it comes to improving the signal-to-noise ratio on Friend Feed.
      • [FRIENDFEED] Twitter Client v0.4
        - Will show the correct character count when tweeting from FF. Counts down from 140 instead of 104 :)
        - Will show tweets as being from ‘idt’.
      • [WORDPRESS] Auntie Spam and Comment Ninja updated for WP 2.5
        Auntie Spam         and Comment Ninja are updated for WP 2.5. They are still backwards compatible with WP 2.3
      • [TWITTER] Redirect direct links to tweets to use quotably
        Quotably is a neat-o service that provides threaded conversations on Twitter. This greasemonkey script will automatically convert any http://twitter.com/*/statuses/* link to go to Quotably instead.

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - friendfeed, blogging, javascript, psychology, startup]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/delicious-links-20-links-friendfeed-blogging-javascript-psychology-startup/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:18:11 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/delicious-links-20-links-friendfeed-blogging-javascript-psychology-startup/

      Weekly Links

      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.

      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

      Internet Duct Tape is my blog where I talk about software, technology, blogging and other geeky subjects.

      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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      • Behind the Curtain
        Here’s a sneak peak into the trials and tribulations of hacking up websites with Greasemonkey:
      • [TWITTER] Redirect direct links to tweets to use quotabl
        Quotably is a neat-o service that provides threaded conversations on Twitter. This greasemonkey script will automatically convert any http://twitter.com/*/statuses/* link to go to Quotably instead.

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - friendfeed, lifehacks, blogging, programming, wordpress]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/delicious-links-20-links-friendfeed-lifehacks-blogging-programming-wordpress/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:05:03 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/delicious-links-20-links-friendfeed-lifehacks-blogging-programming-wordpress/

      Weekly Links

      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.

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      • Greasemonkey Script: Filter FriendFeed by ServiceI’ve sipped the Kool Aid and I’m really liking Friend Feed as a lifestreaming aggregator. One feature that is a bit hard to find is filtering by individual services. I’ve created a Greasemonkey script that sticks a huge bar of icons at the top of the page to make this accessible.
      • Free WP Plugin Idea: Use Referrers Instead of TrackbacksBlogs have a way of keeping track of who is linking to them using trackbacks or pingbacks. It’s a good idea in theory because it helps you follow the discussion as it spreads to new areas, but in practice it is mostly filled with spam because getting a well-placed trackback on a popular website can be a good source of traffic.

        Instead of using trackbacks, why not use referrers?

      • The Fragmentation of Identity and DiscussionOnce upon a time the way someone would comment on something you wrote would be to write a blog post of their own in response. Then blogs got a comment section and people could write what they had to say directly on the post. Now the discussion around a post has completely fragmented: people are saying stuff about your content on Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Facebook… pretty much anywhere except for the post where you originally wrote it.
      • Building an RSS Templating System
      • Delicious Links – 20 links – tools, gamers, workhacks, code, links

      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - tools, gamers, workhacks, code, links]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/delicious-links-20-links-tools-gamers-workhacks-code-links/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:45:12 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/delicious-links-20-links-tools-gamers-workhacks-code-links/

      Weekly Links

      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.

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      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

      Internet Duct Tape is my blog where I talk about software, technology, blogging and other geeky subjects.

      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 17 links - programming, stumbleupon, blogging, windows, copyright]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/delicious-links-17-links-programming-stumbleupon-blogging-windows-copyright/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:13:19 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/delicious-links-17-links-programming-stumbleupon-blogging-windows-copyright/

      Weekly Links

      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.

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      This Week at IDT Labs

      IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

      • [TUMBLR] Regular Post Digest of the Last X Days
        • Build a list of the last X regular posts from your Tumblr account in the past Y days. Useful for doing weekly digest posts with Yahoo Pipe Cleaner . Based off of a pipe by romzombie . IDT Labs is a blog for news announcements about software, tools or blog themes created by InternetDuctTape.com .…
      • [TUMBLR] Delete your Tumblr with TumblrCleanr 0.0.1
        • There’s one Tumblr feature that’s missing: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every…

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 19 links - tips, google, music, code, blogging]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/delicious-links-19-links-tips-google-music-code-blogging/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:22:25 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/delicious-links-19-links-tips-google-music-code-blogging/

      Weekly Links

      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.

      This Week at Internet Duct Tape

      Internet Duct Tape is my blog where I talk about software, technology, blogging and other geeky subjects.

      This Week at IDT Labs

      IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

      • [TUMBLR] Regular Post Digest of the Last X Days
        • Build a list of the last X regular posts from your Tumblr account in the past Y days. Useful for doing weekly digest posts with Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
      • [TUMBLR] Delete your Tumblr with TumblrCleanr 0.0.1
        • There’s one Tumblr feature that’s missing: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every…

      This Week at Ruby, eh?

      Ruby, eh? is where I blog/tumble about the Ruby programming language.

      • Rake RDocTask with all of the options stubbed out
        • http://pastie.caboo.se/159372  Rake::RDocTask.new(:rdoc) do |rd| # rd.external # run the rdoc process as an external shell # rd.main = “name” # ‘name’ will be the initial page displayed # rd.rdoc_dir = “html” # set the output directory # rd.rdoc_file = [] # List of files…
      • Rake: Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file
        • There’s probably an easier way to do this. http://pastie.caboo.se/159362  # Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file def local_requires(source) results = [] File.open(source,’r').each_line do |line| if line =~ /require ['"]([^'"]+)['"]/…
      • I Can Has RSS?I’ve switched to FeedBurner for RSS support . And set up full feeds, thanks to Alex . (I had no idea that they were turned off!)
      • Bulk updating Gem sourcegem install allison Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org I swear to god that rubyforge is actually a humongous peer to peer network made up from stealing our bandwidth when we do a gem install.
      • Rake Tip: force tasks to run based on operating systemhttp://pastie.caboo.se/158812 task :windows_only do raise “Must be run from Windows, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin/ end task :linux_only do raise “Must be run from Linux, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/ end
      • Rake TipBAD: s.gsub(/.rb$/,’.exe’) GOOD:  File.basename(s).ext(‘exe’)
      • Rails: how to delete ActiveRecords to a recycling bin
        • The contenders: acts_as_paranoid – 2005-09-17  Creates a delete_at column and overrides finders to ignore columns with deleted_at set. Last release was 2005-12-20, about 1600 downloads. Around ~100 blog mentions. This guy is using it instead of acts_as_trashable   Reported not working on…
      • validates_presence_of and validates_length_of
        • Pick one : validates_presence_of :snausages validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3 OR validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3, :allow_nil => true I broke my app because of not including allow_nil grep validates_length_of app/models/*.rb | grep -v allow_nil // engtech  …

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 13 links - programming, lifehacks, productivity, geek, games]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/delicious-links-13-links-programming-lifehacks-productivity-geek-games/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:15:51 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/delicious-links-13-links-programming-lifehacks-productivity-geek-games/

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      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.

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - programming, community, development, twitter, lisp]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/delicious-links-20-links-programming-community-development-twitter-lisp/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:25:40 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/delicious-links-20-links-programming-community-development-twitter-lisp/

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Delicious Links - 20 links - writing, programming, javascript, jquery, testing]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/delicious-links-20-links-writing-programming-javascript-jquery-testing/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:15:39 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/delicious-links-20-links-writing-programming-javascript-jquery-testing/

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Best of Feeds - 19 links - blogging, inspiration, writing, design, apple]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/best-of-feeds-19-links-blogging-inspiration-writing-design-apple/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:31:06 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/best-of-feeds-19-links-blogging-inspiration-writing-design-apple/

      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.

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Best of Feeds - 23 links - programming, music, photography, psychology, rails]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/best-of-feeds-23-links-programming-music-photography-psychology-rails/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:11:15 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/best-of-feeds-23-links-programming-music-photography-psychology-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).

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      This Week at IDT Labs

      • [WORDPRESS] Category Resizer v1.0
        • WordPress Category Resizer 2008/01/02 – v1.0 – BUGFIX: newer versions of WordPress.com broke this script – BUGFIX: will run on any WordPress install, not just WordPress.com – BUGFIX: now works when you have less than three categories – added automatic update check – Tested with WordPress.com…
      • [WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja v0.5
        • Comment Ninja v0.5 2008/01/02 – 0.5 don’t display comment ninja in mass-edit mode, since it doesn’t work on that mode wordpress.com added avatars to the comment display and they were being sent in emails on multi-author blogs it grays out the comments you can’t edit IDT Labs is a…

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Best of Feeds - 20 links - geek, movies, blogging, programming, xbox360]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/best-of-feeds-20-links-geek-movies-blogging-programming-xbox360/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:16:29 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/best-of-feeds-20-links-geek-movies-blogging-programming-xbox360/

      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).

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      • [WORDPRESS] Category Resizer v1.0
        • WordPress Category Resizer 2008/01/02 – v1.0 – BUGFIX: newer versions of WordPress.com broke this script – BUGFIX: will run on any WordPress install, not just WordPress.com – BUGFIX: now works when you have less than three categories – added automatic update check – Tested with WordPress.com…
      • [WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja v0.5
        • Comment Ninja v0.5 2008/01/02 – 0.5 don’t display comment ninja in mass-edit mode, since it doesn’t work on that mode wordpress.com added avatars to the comment display and they were being sent in emails on multi-author blogs it grays out the comments you can’t edit IDT Labs is a…

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Best of Feeds - 14 links - security, gmail, google, testing, dns]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/best-of-feeds-14-links-security-gmail-google-testing-dns/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:43:01 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/best-of-feeds-14-links-security-gmail-google-testing-dns/

      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).

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      • 7 Tips to Optimize Windows XP for Gaming — Playing The Witcher on Minimum System Requirements
        • One of the lures of the holiday season is to be able to hopefully squeeze in some time between eggnog, family and friends to exercise your vices. No, not heroin, but that other life consuming addiction: gaming. PC gaming is quickly going the way of the dodo, with console gaming taking over because…
      • Windows XP – Disable dumpprep when programs crash
        • One tip for improve Windows XP that I absolutely love is turning off that annoying “do you want to send an error report” message when programs crash. The sad truth is that those error reports rarely reach anyone who could fix the problem, so it’s a colossal waste of time — especially…

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      ]]>             <![CDATA[Best of Feeds - 13 links - photography, business, photo, copyright, comics]]> http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/best-of-feeds-13-links-photography-business-photo-copyright-comics/ Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:27:58 +0000 engtech http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/best-of-feeds-13-links-photography-business-photo-copyright-comics/

      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.

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