Rubyforge: RFPDF
rails plugin for PDF generation using the fpdf library
public
Enforce Column Limits Plugin
auto validate text fields on rails models for max length
Markup Validator Web Service API
The w3c (X)HTML validator now has a webservices API
Don't Feed the Energy Beast
Stop. Breathe. Walk away.
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Google labs paper on their MapReduce method of sharing work over clusters
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
google white paper on their BigTable distrubuted database system
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Presentation Zen: Takahashi Method
minimalist slide style for presentations.
Labeling mail with mutt
using gmail-style labels in mutt
madduck's droppings: mutt tagging
blog post discussing the difficulty of tagging/labelling in mutt
ikiwiki
nifty wiki compilier that uses a revision control system for storage.
UTF8 encoded text file
useful for testing compatability.
Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: December 6, 2004
contains instructions for setting up a "compose" key in xorg to allow unicode chars to be entered.
What's on Jason's Hard Drive
One guys efforts at storing all his and documents in Perforce (a commercial RCS)
Zamzar
convert Microsoft publisher files to something more useful
Unit Testing Your Documentation
article by one of the authors of the Ruby Cookbook that discusses how he setup automated unit tests for the code samples in the book.
Rediscovering Bluetooth
using low level bluetooth tools in linux to do intersting things
Bluetooth and Linux
A series of HOWTOs for using the bluez command line utils
Bluetooth dial up guide for iPaq Windows Mobile 2003 (GPRS or CDMA)
guide to connecting an ipaq to the internet via bluetooth
FPDF: Barcodes
generating an EAN13 barcode with FPDF
Mutt Patterns
reference for patterns (to limit, search, etc) in mutt
How to not look lost at a key-signing
Slashdot
The Age
Google Reader
Delicious
Whirlpool
VTCU
My Credit Union
Wotsap
scripts and file formats for analysing the global gpg web of trust
Biglumber
site for helping find locals to sign gpg keys