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Web Site Personalization & Collaborative Filtering

Rails Petstore is an implementation of Clinton Begin’s JPetstore that has been developed with the Rails web framework. The aim of this project is to develop a reference application that demonstrates the capabilities of the framework and the best practices

The Personal MBA: Mastering Business Without Spending a Fortune

Regular expressions are very powerful tools for matching, searching, and replacing text. Unfortunately, they are also very obtuse. It does not help that most explanations of regular expressions start from the specification, which is like learning to love

This is a ruby script I (sloppily) cooked up to post daily del.icio.us links to my blog. It requires the Rubilicious library, and (because I’m lazy) is hardcoded to point at my blog.

Nice photo sharing site. Could make for competition with Flickr.

In computer programming, a magic number is a special constant used for some specific purpose. It is called magic because its value or presence is inexplicable without some additional knowledge.

HappyFeet has made the best effort possible to put these items in some form of coherent order. This book used alot of marketing/business angles. I chose to replace those examples, etc. with art, creativity, and revolution. Use this to make the truth bloom

There’s nothing worse than having to go to work for a boss that you don’t get along with, but it can’t be worse than this. Bosses can be a real pain in the ass and sometimes you wonder how you can continue to work with a boss you can’t get along with. Her

blogs.hula-project.org has been set up to host blogs for Hula developers.

Ruby RSS aggregator to make “planet” site

Galaxy is a Web-based RSS Feed Aggregator. It maintains feed subscription information, download RSS feeds for each subscription, list those in aggregated form on web.

FeedTools will be a simple ruby library for handling rss/atom/cdf parsing, generation, and translation as well as caching. It will attempt to adhere to a liberal parsing / conservative generation policy.

Habari Xenu is a News Aggregator that is built on top of the powerful Mozilla web platform.

Add RSS feeds to Bloglines or Sage with the RSS icon on the status bar.

Give us your PDF and a couple days later, you’ll have a black and white, printed and comb bound book on your door step.

PHPlist is a web application that implements a personalised mailing list manager or customer relationship management (CRM) system. It is written in PHP and uses an SQL database for storing the information.

Traveller Deckplans

The Azureus Dashboard Widget provides a compact, friendly interface for monitoring and managing BitTorrent downloads. It’s especially useful for remote torrent management — for instance, if you use a machine other than your main workstation for BitTorre

For those of you who are actually looking for an iPod car connection kit, here’s a listing of available products. None of these products are FM transmitter or tape adaptors like the Griffin’s iTrip or Monster iCarPlay.

The Linux Virtual Server as an advanced load balancing solution can be used to build highly scalable and highly available network services, such as scalable web, cache, mail, ftp, media and VoIP services.

A large, elongated prawn cracker popular in Indonesia and Malaysia. Bought in dried form, they are made from tapioca flour, prawns, salt and sugar. When deep fried they swell and become crisp. If unavailable, Chinese prawn crackers may be substituted alth

The Cake is a lightweight framework written in PHP, based on Rails. It’s primary goal is to rapidly create and maintain web applications of any kind and level of complexity.

Next Action is a Getting Things Done todo-list tracking tool. It’s a personal database for your GTD info.

build your own machine shop

The answer, evidently, is to have shit jump out of the dark at you.

Searchable Documentation for Ruby on Rails

With the abundance and diversity of RSS News feeds out in the wild now thanks to sites like Moreover.com, the attraction of getting free syndicated news onto my site was getting too hard to resist. Unfortunately like most other small sites out on the net

Bayesian RSS. A multi-user RSS aggregator with multi-category Bayesian filtering capabilities.