Getting down to coding faster

When I reboot my mac, or need to switch projects, I had quite a few clicks and mouse movements to go through. I found it rather repetitive, so I set up a shell script (in ruby) to open Firefox, Textmate, and start the rails server.
Here’s the script. I called it open_dev_environement and used chmod 755 [...]

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A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die

I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to dive in and start [...]

U.S. Junk Mail Accounts for One Third of All World Mail!

More than 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk mail are delivered each year (that’s more than 800 pieces per household). The greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the manufacturing of the 6.5 million tons of paper required for junk mail annually is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions of 3.7 million cars.
What can you do to stop it? [...]

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20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer | Six Revisions : Web Development and Design

20 websites that will make you a more effective, knowledgeable, and successful web developer.
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Greeneconomix: Energias Renovables, Desarrollo Sostenible, Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Calentamiento Global

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acts_as_paranoid and acts_as_versioned at Off you go… into the purple yonder!

So you’re writing a web-based application and you want journalling: when database records change, you want to keep track of the changes so that you have an audit trail. There are many ways to do this.
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Eco tips for Jeans

From our friends at UNEP sustainable consumption — simple tips for energy efficiency and “danser le Tecktonic” Today, many in the fashion sector are concerned by their impacts on the environment, due to the exploitation of raw materials, the production, the transport and the generation of waste. However, the life cycle analysis of a pair [...]

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Ruby on Rails SEO Tips

This article focuses on how you can improve the search engine optimization (SEO) of your Rails site the Ruby way
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Notify me when it’s done

Have a long running command line process on the mac? Use mac’s speech synthesis or Quicksilver’s large type [...]

Homemade Habanero Hummous Recipe and Meeta Pockets

Homemade Habanero Hummous

One can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
About one quarter of a jar of tahini. Officially one to two gloms of tahini. You choose how much oil.
A glom of habenero sauce – we used the one we got at the Marylebone London farmers market from Edible Ornamentals. It was called Inferno. She’s there every other sunday, [...]

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Digital Web Magazine – How to Build a Green Business

In an age of inconvenient truths, global warming, and “green is good” messages in the mass media, Sustainability has become a popular catchphrase and the new marketing must-have for many companies. But [...]

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