Archive for April, 2008

Amazon beta tests persistent storage for EC2

Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier
[…]our forthcoming persistent storage feature will give you the ability to create reliable, persistent storage volumes for use with EC2. Once created, these volumes will be part of your account and will have a lifetime independent of any particular EC2 instance.
These volumes can be thought of […]

Zappos, Southwest and Twitter

Logic + Emotion has a nice little write-up about Southwest airlines and Zappos doing good work on Twitter.
He hints at how the ad industry keeps trying to monetize, etc. This goes back to what I’ve been saying for a while: be honest, be true, and be all about the “talking.” The rest […]

links for 2008-04-12

Google App Engine for developers
(tags: google appengine tutorial writeup diagrams)

InterGlot.com - English Spanish French German Dutch and Swedish dictionary
(tags: free fast dictionary translation translator learn spanish)

SwitchPipe - Process Manager and Proxy for Rapid Web App Deployment
(tags: switchtower rails deployment howto easy multiple apps)

The Motionbox EventHandler in use

Sometimes you just have to like convenience. Using our EventHandler I was just able to write the following code:
PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:

MOBX.HighlightTextField = (function() {
   
    var highlightText = function (evt) {
        var el = evt.element();
        el.focus();
        el.select();
    };
   
    MOBX.EventHandler.subscribe(".highlight_on_click", "click", [...]

What?

Oh man... this Lost video is great too. What?

Passenger for rails deployment

Overview — Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails)
Phusion Passenger — a.k.a. mod_rails — makes deployment of applications built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”.
Watching this screencast has made me drool. I wonder if there are any drawbacks. Seems fast [...]

Ballmer sells windows 1.0

This video is really hysterical. That guy... that guy.

links for 2008-04-11

Elastic Server On-Demand: Home
(tags: elastic servers elasticservers build virtual server deploy download parallels)

The New Cult Canon: Primer | The A.V. Club
(tags: movie review primer sundance towatch)

Using Django with Appengine
(tags: django python appengine google tutorial howto)

Ecommerce Registration Usability Tips - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
(tags: ecommerce registration forms review user interface design)

Vimeo development roadmap

Making the Vimeo
Making the Vimeo Our Developmental Roadmap
So, what are we up to? We always have a lot of great new features and improvements in the oven, so we've teamed up with Toyota to bring everyone a little sneak peak into what we're cooking up. Now you can check out what we're working on, [...]

RubyAMP

code [dot] leadmediapartners.com - RubyAMP
RubyAMP is a TextMate bundle that makes you more productive in editing, navigating, and debugging Ruby code. Now you can easily:

auto-complete from all open tabs
jump to a method, class, or fixture named under the cursor
start the debugger on a series of RSpec examples and break at the current [...]