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i'm the principal software engineer @ airadvice inc and have been performing the craft of software development for a decade.

 

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recent reads

• Free Ruler
  A (literally) free ruler for Mac OS X. Note the Beta version is the Universal Binary.
• SuperDuper backup
  SuperDuper is a backup utility for Mac. Has a scheduler and 'smart update' to produce bootable backups.
• SailingClicker
  Use your BlueTooth phone to control your Mac.
• wsdl2php
  Turn a SOAP wsdl into a behemoth of PHP classes. Not a substitute for the docs, but makes it easy(er) to follow around the object model of the WSDL of your choice.
• Javascript Calendar
  This is one of the better Javascript calendars I've found online.
• New SCM on the block
  Mozilla just converted to this source-control-management system. Does it have the gusto?
• Coolest monitors ever
  I want 3 of the big ones to be completely surrounded by these puppies.
• Get inside Ruby
  Explore a lot of deep internals inside Ruby, including integration with GDB during runtime, working with Ruby source code, and getting breakpointer to work in 1.8.5.
• 19 Rails Tricks
  19 Rails tricks most programmers don't know... at least that's what they claim. RubyInside does indeed have some pretty good content in general. Recommended.
• Restful Rails
  A nice description of the new restful features of rails.
• Lite fx library
  Here's a very lightweight javascript effects library.
• Probability for free
  Dartmouth and the AMS have released the book Introduction to Probability by Grinstead and Snell for free as a PDF under the FDL.
• Online Math Books
  The American Mathematical Society has a number of free books for download.
• Gaming ports
  A cool looking service to run 'hundreds of games for Windows on Linux'... (Curious how well that works...)
• Bookmarklets
  They've been around for a while, but this is the best collection in one place I've seen so far.