Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 30th):

• Stripe -
• http://admintemplates.com/ -
• Gray Admin Template -
• Internet Dreams - Free admin skin available -
• Free Html/CSS & jQuery Admin Panel INADMIN INDEZINER -
• Site Templates - CleanSlate - HTML5+CSS3 Admin Template - ThemeForest -
• 10 Free CSS and HTML Admin and Backend Templates :Speckyboy Design Magazine -
• 40 Highly Customizable Commercial Admin Templates And Skins -
• 7 great free admin templates | Netisme Blog -
• Pure Admin - Site Templates - ThemeForest -
• Quik v1 Admin Skin - ThemeForest -
• Blank Web Application 2 - Single Column, Fixed Layout - ThemeForest -
• Boxie Admin - Site Templates - ThemeForest -
• Admin Templates - Site Templates - ThemeForest -

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 29th):

• imakewebthings/deck.js - GitHub -
• Param On Rails: Generate PDF using Erb or HAML and pdfkit - interesting look at generating PDFs from your rails app.
• App uses camera to pause music - iPhone Dev SDK Forum - interesting use of the iphone camera, uses motion detection from the built in camera to pause music when you get visitors.
• Online Data Backup & Storage CrashPlan Backup Software, Disaster Recovery - online backup, free option supports back up to Friends and Family space (in their house, on their hardware). also paid options for cloud storage.
• Chad Hietala - Front-end Dev Design: CoffeeScript 101 - short and sweet coffeescript intro
• State of the Stack A Ruby on Rails Benchmarking Report Sept. 2011 | New Relic blog - They must have heard me mention it yesterday, but here's the latest State of the Stack from NewRelic.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 28th):

• UI patterns | Hanami Design - some really interesting UI stuff
• Heroku | Python and Django on Heroku - python and django devs get a turn on heroku now.
• Mailbox Forwarding - View Postal Mail Online, Mail Forwarding, Post Office Box, and Virtual Address PO Box Services - Use someone else's address as your own, to keep psychos from stalking you on the net, and get physical mail scanned
• Versioning your APIs : Freelancing Gods - dealing with api versioning
• GemStats.org - help the community by sharing your gem data - an attempt to see what folks are actually using for gems. NewRelic does a "state of the stack" once a year and has decent access to gems from their monitoring. Still would be interesting to see what people are using outside production as well.
• LESS Is More - Using Twitter's Bootstrap In The Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline @MetaSkills.net - twitter bootstrap is back, this time with LESS and putting it into the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 27th):

• Hacking the App Stores - Betable - how to give yourself and your app a chance in a sea of apps
• coding in the rain Modern Ruby Development - Another how to get your environment setup. This one prefers rbenv, homebrew, pow and zsh.
• Make Notes in Google Analytics with Annotations - Analytics Results - Google Analytics Blog by Loves Data - track events, make analytics more useful
• HOWTO: install puppet-dashboard on Debian Squeeze The eternal fight between admins and computers - how to install puppet-dashboard. At some point, it seems, I should figure out puppet for everything I do and use dashboard to make my life somewhat easier.
• How to use iPhone 4 as a Pay-Go iPhone - I so want to do this, hopefully a week or two until the new iPhone 4 comes out (with the iPhone 5?)
• GitX (L) - landing page for the other fork of gitx
• laullon/gitx - GitHub - another fork of gitx
• square/KIF - GitHub - iOS Integration Testing Framework
• Tuffcode - Home - An HTTP sniffer for Mac.
• Pipedrive sales management software and CRM tool - Another SaaS CRM, looks pretty.
• Features Pipedrive -

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 26th):

• The New Sales Page - older but good walkthrough of why appsumo's page is a good example of a sales page.
• Shane's blog | Installing WordPress via Puppet - hopefully making wp installation easier
• Notes From the MIT Startup Bootcamp 2011 - Jason Morrison -

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 25th):

• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 24th):

• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 -
• Meet Samurai: The Most Powerful Way to Accept Payments Online -
• Meet Samurai: The Most Powerful Way to Accept Payments Online - another way to accept payments in your application
• Simple Two-Factor SSH Authentication - Moocode Blog - two-factor authentication in ruby using ssh and google authenticator
• 37signals Sent Me a Gift for Pwning their Leaderboards at bengarvey.com - a tale of some over the top customer service from 37signals.
• Arduino Robot: Lottie Lemon Video for World Maker Faire NYC 2011 - robot purpose built to lower the barriers of entry to robotics in education
• $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud - 30K core cluster ec2 instance, for the low low price of $1,279/hour. Would totally rock SETI and distributed.net scores :)
• bkeepers/qu - GitHub - another background job/queueing tool for ruby inspired by delayed_job and resque supporting multiple backends.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (September 23rd):

• 500 Internal Server Error - 500 Internal Server Error
• Git Reference - a quick reference for learning and remembering the most important and commonly used Git commands