Ma.gnolia: Ivan Storck's Bookmarks

BenCurtis.com » RESTful searching in Rails

ivanoats — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:09:22 PDT

A really simple implementation of the most basic type of searching you can do in a Rails application. It just so happens that this method will also handle the bulk of your searching needs

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Tags: rails, rubyonrails, searching, rest

Unlimited/Oversold hosting and how it's changing the web hosting industry | The HostReview Blog

ivanoats — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:14:48 PDT

Overselling has also distorted customer knowledge of the hosting market and needs-based analysis of hosting plans. Instead of learning to use rational evaluation techniques of each hosting plan under consideration, customers have been "trained" through constant exposure to ads emphasizing high disk space and bandwidth (and little else) to choose the host that offers the most disk space and bandwidth for the least amount of money. So, what does this mean for the industry? It should be pretty obvious: overselling is not a sustainable practice from a financial standpoint.

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Tags: webhosting, overselling

brandchannel.com | Sandra Taylor | Sustainable Business International, LLc | brand | brands | branding

ivanoats — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:51:19 PDT

Sandra E. Taylor, President and CEO of the new global consulting firm Sustainable Business International, LLC, talks to brandchannel and explains why corporate social responsibility nowadays is not just good for the brand, it’s essential for brand value.

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Tags: sustainablemarketing

Joomla! Help Site - How to patch Joomla! 1.0.x to 1.0.x

ivanoats — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:03:38 PDT

How to patch joomla from 1.0.x to 1.0.x

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Tags: joomla

Migrating from 1.0.x to 1.5 Stable - Joomla! Documentation

ivanoats — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:58:02 PDT

How to Migrate from Joomla 1.0.x to 1.5

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Tags: joomla

Shifting Careers - Fighting a Workplace War Against Distraction - NYTimes.com

ivanoats — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:11:39 PDT

The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task, according to Gloria Mark, a leader in the new field of “interruption science.” The first step is to learn to speak a language of attention. The exciting news is that the enigma of attention has just begun to be mapped, tracked and decoded by neuroscientists who now consider attention to be a trio of skills: focus, awareness and so-called executive attention. Think of it this way: You can be “aware” that you’re in a beautiful garden and then you can “focus” on an individual flower. The last piece, “executive attention,” is the ability to plan and make decisions. Practice may help. Scientists are discovering that attention can be bolstered through training, including meditation. One study, for instance, showed that eight weeks of meditation significantly boosted focus in a group of 17 novices. Six-year-olds given computer-based attention training by the scientist Michael Posner showed a marked gain in executive attention. TO combat overload, we also need to look to our environments. That’s why a few pioneering companies are creating places or times for uninterrupted, focused creative thought. I.B.M. employees practice “Think Fridays” worldwide, avoiding or cutting back on e-mail, meetings and interruptions. Other firms are setting aside unwired, quiet rooms.

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Tags: interruptions, focus, gtd

Robby on Rails : The legacy of databases with Rails

ivanoats — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:29 PDT

How to make a legacy database schema play nicer with rails

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Tags: rails, legacy, schema

Rail Spikes: Remote MySQL GUI with SSH

ivanoats — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:54:55 PDT

How to connect to MySQL on a remote server via ssh

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Tags: mysql, ssh, tunneling

Live PR | Live PageRank Firefox Extension | Check Your PageRank | PageRank Checker

ivanoats — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:33:51 PDT

Firefox extension to show Google PageRank for sites you visit

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Tags: seo, firefox

SEO Links at Ivan Enviroman

ivanoats — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:40:33 PDT

Keyword Suggestions and Keyword Density checker

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Tags: seo, keywords, density

SEO Guide for Designers

ivanoats — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:08:40 PDT

This is a SEO guide for designers who want to learn about making it easier for websites or blogs to be found by search engines. Explains the common mistakes made by designers and developers. The article provides some basic tips that you should be practicing to optimize your site for search engines.

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Tags: webdesign, seo

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages - Six Revisions

ivanoats — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:53 PDT

A few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications.

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Tags: loadtesting, webdesign, speed, load

Ethilien :: Better Redirects in Rails

ivanoats — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:24:50 PDT

some tricks he's developed for handling a few special types of redirects a bit more gracefully in Ruby on Rails.

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Tags: rubyonrails, rails, ruby on rails

Widgets, Plugins and Themes » Realivent Real Estate Technology Blog

ivanoats — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:27:14 PDT

Plugins for real estate wordpress sites

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Tags: wordpress, plugins, realestate

WordPress SEO - Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog

ivanoats — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:47:39 PDT

This is the ONLY guide you need to hugely increase your WordPress SEO, which will get you more traffic from the Search engines!

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Tags: wordpress, seo

How to Create an Image Selection Plugin for tinyMCE with Ruby on Rails « Hack’d - Great Stuff for Web Hackers

ivanoats — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:01:39 PDT

How to make an image selector for TinyMCE in Rails

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Tags: rubyonrails, rails, tinymce, imageuploads

Triggit!

ivanoats — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:33:06 PDT

ad network

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Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters

ivanoats — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:15:29 PDT

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters. Cool CSS downloads.

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Tags: css, webdesign, tutorials

Search and Replace in MySQL database with phpMyAdmin

ivanoats — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:03:39 PDT

UPDATE tablename SET tablefield = replace(tablefield,"findstring","replacestring");

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Tags: mysql, search and replace

FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator

ivanoats — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:25:17 PDT

A great calculator for figuring out your ideal freelance rate

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Tags: freelance, contracting, rates, business

Rapid Rails Part 1: Command-line mastery

ivanoats — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:07:56 PDT

Rapid Rails is a series of articles containing succinct tips to increase your productivity when working with Ruby on Rails. This is the first part, and shows you how to make the most of the command-line tools that come with Rails.

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Tags: rails, rubyonrails, ruby on rails, command line

Slice 'n Dice - Services

ivanoats — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:56:59 PDT

another photoshop chop shop with a nice clear and concise marketing message

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Tags: photoshop chop shop, webdesign

Flowplayer | Flash Video Player for the Web

ivanoats — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:33:27 PDT

Embed video streams on your website with this open source flash player

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Tags: video, embed, flashvideo, flv, webdesign

A List Apart: Articles: Sign Up Forms Must Die

ivanoats — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:25:40 PDT

I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to this book I described the process of stumbling upon or being recommended to a web service. You arrive eager to dive in and start engaging and what’s the first thing that greets you? A form. We can do better. In fact, I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.

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Tags: usability, webdesign

Greeneconomix: Energias Renovables, Desarrollo Sostenible, Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Calentamiento Global

ivanoats — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:28:24 PDT

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Tags: sustainablemarketing, español

20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer | Six Revisions : Web Development and Design

ivanoats — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:02:05 PDT

20 websites that will make you a more effective, knowledgeable, and successful web developer.

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Tags: webdesign

Growlnotify Leopard incompatibility workaround : hasseg.org

ivanoats — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:31:51 PDT

I Have a bunch of custom shell scripts that I use for various things, and most of them use the growlnotify utility that is distributed with Growl to display messages to the user. Unfortunately, as of this writing, growlnotify has some issues with Leopard and thus messages sent through it will be displayed only intermittently

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Tags: growl, leopard, autotest, rails

less everything Use attr_protected or we will hack you

ivanoats — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:24:13 PDT

how to improve user security in rails apps

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Tags: rails, security

The Myth of A Listers and Influencers

ivanoats — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:50:58 PDT

A study challenges three commonly held perceptions about influencers online and how to market to them. It emphasizes the importance of the large number of moderately connected influencers, and providing three key marketing takeaways.

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Co-working with a twist

ivanoats — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:41:21 PDT

Cubes&Crayons launched a little over a month ago and is essentially co-working with onsite daycare. I wonder if dogs are allowed too. Then it would be perfect!

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Tags: coworking, daycare