Blogs

Ever since Firefox introduced tabbed browsing and session saver kept things alive after crashing, surfers everywhere use the tabs to store the sites they’re interested in and want to take a closer look at — but aren’t going to bookmark — at least not yet.

In the “Getting Things Done” philosophy we should always Do, Delegate or Defer any action item immediately to stay on task, be productive and focused. Well, as much of a GTD guy I want to be I always end up with a swath of tabs by Friday. So be it. I’ll defer them to this blog.

More REST and Less Code with Merb

The RESTful way of development is old hat for many Rails guys at this point and the one common complaint is the repetitious boilerplate scaffold code with respond_to for each mime type. Merb is learning from Rails and, in particular, the Merb Responder and “provides” inteface abstracts these idioms from the controller cleaning things up. I love it.

Flash based PDF viewer

Viewing PDF documents isn’t too bad but if you can avoid the jarring effect of the loading dialogue and provide a slicker web based interface then why not. Check out Issuu for their inspired user experience that is web based and by far one of the best viewers for PDF I’ve come across.

RESTful Authentication: The Definitive Guide

Not only authentication but authorization with roles and permissions and, possibly the kitchen sink too. This is the most comprehensive guide I’ve seen to the common pattern of user accounts in a web based software system.

Tonight its on, like Megatron, another installment of the formidable meetup. Now with more beer!

If demos and presentations aren’t your thing then do not despair, my hacker friends, this Sat we’re hosting Nitobi Hack Day 2.0. We have beer. We have shwag. We have giant sandwich. Join us in capturing the elusive Balmer peak and score some free stuff.