Simple and easy time tracking.
More rails hotness, this time a personal finances app from Jamis Buck. I like it.
Open Source panorama stitch utility, with an OS X port – you don’t even need to compile it!
Perhaps the most brilliant thing Flickr did was to provide an API that allows developers to hook into it seamlessly. This meant someone could create a free tool that lets me move photos directly from iPhoto to Flickr. This newfound ease of upload increased my Flickr usage so much that I needed to buy a Pro account. So, get this: Someone else did the work, and Flickr got the money. All because they levy so little control.
Web applications need to relinquish the control, be open and user driven.
I hate driving, and I think I’d be quick to kill myself before commuting on the freeway everyday to work, but this mashup of google maps and yahoo traffic is real neat.
Looks nice.
Now, on to Rails. Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a few web servers from scratch. Nobody has done it like this before.
So rails, starting to get hot, huh?
Matthew Linderman and Jason Fried
What you should do to foolproof the ‘critical’ points of your website. How to keep people from getting frustrated while trying to accomplish their goals, ultimately allowing them to do buisness with you instead of getting pissed and walking off.
Asynchronous javascript and xml, or – the future of web apps. I heard DHH mumble something about putting a lot of the xmlhttprequest bits he had been working on for his next big project into rails – and I can’t wait. This stuff really is cool.
A nice guide to spacing and labeling and coloring and general web form design.
It’s a desktop app in my browser over the web – and it uses XmlHTTPRequest, not flash! I declare it year of the web application.
Run windows applications (like iTunes!) on linux? And it’s open source, but I bet a pain to compile. Nice.