- Dan Creswell’s Weblog: Jini vs. SOAP
I’ve never gotten around to playing with JXTA / Jini, maybe someday..
(categories: jini soap )
Category Archives: Daily Links
Links: 1-17-2006
- AJAX Activity indicators with Rails 0.14.3
Using this as a reminder that the name for this widgets is ‘activity indicator’.
(categories: activity ajax indicator ) - Monkeygrease » Overview
Java servlet filter that gives you the ability to markup an app on the server side.
(categories: bananas greasemonkey java servlets ) - Tooltip.js – Main — Demos
JavaScript library for creating tooltips on both IE and FireFox browsers
(categories: javascript tooltip ) - Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
Almost the exact same toolbar as the Web Developer Toolbar in FireFox, except for the inclusion of the ruler tool, which would be worth the price of admission by itself.
(categories: developer ie tools )
Links: 1-11-2006
- Amazon.com Books: Books / New & Used Textbooks
Hopefully I’ll be able to use it this semester for books. The books cost so much at the campus bookstore that you half expect them to throw you a free diamond or something.
(categories: amazon books ) - Lightbox JS
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. Would come in handy on product detail pages to show the large image intead of a pop up window.
(categories: dhtml images javascript ) - Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
Some cool stuff in here: TaskSwitch shows you a preview of the Window when you do ALT-TAB (which is kind of slow on my machine, so we’ll see, (update: way too slow…)
(categories: microsoft powertoys ) - VideoHelp.com Forum Archive – How to convert .flv (flash video) to .avi or .mpg
Looks like the freeware site is down (probably from too much bandwidth), nonetheless, very useful.
(categories: flash flv ripping video )
Links: 1-3-2006
- Plus Addressing on wikipedia.com
Useful if you have to test web applications that need require you to create new email addresses all the time.
(categories: + addressing email plus )
Links: 12-14-2005
- dev2dev: Using and hacking Subclipse – the Subversion plugin for Eclipse
I’ve tried this once before and it didn’t work so well.
(categories: eclipse ide subversion )
Links: 12-1-2005
- SwitchTower: Automating Application Deployment
SwitchTower is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with Rails. You simply provide SwitchTower with a deployment recipe that describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically have single-command deployment. It …
(categories: automation deployment rails ruby ) - RDT – Ruby Development Tools: Welcome
RDT is an open source Ruby IDE for the Eclipse platform. Features supported are syntax highlighting, on the fly syntax check, graphical outline, Test::Unit view/runner, Ruby application launching, content assist, source formatter, and a Ruby debugger.
(categories: eclipse ide ruby )
Links: 11-27-2005
- Paul Graham on Web 2.0
My favorite quote: “Basically, what ‘Ajax’ means is ‘Javascript now works.”
(categories: ajax paul_graham quotes )
Links: 11-24-2005
- Test Run: Home
A cool tool for QA people: free for single users, also a hosted or a downloadable versions.
(categories: php qa software testing ) - Mp3Nova.org » Radiohead — Me And This Arm
Radiohead mashup.
(categories: mashed radiohead )
Links: 11-23-2005
- Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program – Joel on Software
Great list of books to read over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend…err… maybe the next 12 Thanksgiving holiday weekends.
(categories: books software toread )
Links: 11-3-2005
- Bogle’s Blog » Ruby On Spring
JRuby, Spring, Hibernate, a different combination of some hot acronyms.
(categories: hibernate jruby ruby spring ) - XML.com: REST on Rails
How to use REST with Ruby on Rails.
(categories: rails rest ruby xml )