Link: The Blues Brothers: Allegory for Software Development « A Fresh Cup
"Few people in the current generation of developer are aware of one of the seminal works that explains agile development via allegory: The Blues Brothers."
Link: How-To Setup a Linux Server for Ruby on Rails - with Phusion Passenger and GitHub - Hack'd
Can skip some of this thanks to Sprinkle, but it's a useful reference nonetheless.
Link: Derek Powazek - Programmers are Tiny Gods
"If you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God."
Link: The Footprints Network - The Power of Many
"The footprints network is an alliance of e-commerce businesses and their customers who fund community projects from many tiny donations collected with every online transaction."
Link: WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Kiva vs. MicroPlace - What's the Difference?
"The big difference between MicroPlace and Kiva...is that loans will be securitized (and therefore potentially trade-able), and lenders will earn interest."
Link: MicroPlace, an eBay Company: Make an investment, help relieve global poverty.
"Your investment dollars are used to provide loans to the working poor."
Link: The Exciter: Installing Lighttpd on OSX
Note the mysql flags for lighttpd so mod_mysql_vhost works
Link: Hivelogic - The Narrative - Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger
Note the config settings in ./configure calls
Link: gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the end-user manifesto
Link: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
Emphasis on Beta, apparently, but still, should be useful
Link: Six JavaScript features we do not need any longer
Commit these rules into your memory
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