Amen Brotha. It’s OK to be tricky like this.

Flash 9 for Xubuntu « Xubuntu Blog

Wanna use link_to, but dynamically change one of the options (like class)?
Here’s a cool tip for changing it based on the current controller / action:

Highlight link for current action

One of the coolest widgets I’ve seen in a long time:
Wiglet: Desktop widget in Jell-o guise shakes for earthquakes - Download Squad

My company, Apollo Group Inc, does rock. Besides the killer heath insurance, my bosses have agreed to send me to RubyConf 2006 in Denver! WooHoo! I was scheduled to go to Denver later that week for a WebLogic training anyways. I pleaded to get the plane tickets moved a few days early so I’m able to hit RubyConf.

Yeah - pretty nerdy, but I’m ok with that.

Even though it seems that there a a proliferation of code snippet sites, this one entry caught my eye. (Notice the ubuntu references?)

Programming is Hard: Bash aliases [bash]

One of the best ways to describe the whole http “REST” concept:
How I explained REST to my wife…

I ran across this amazing idea at the economist.com that I’m sure will eventaully catch on here in America: Group Buy. Now - some vendors will be willing to negotiate (Mom and Pop shops?), while others won’t (Walmart?). Very cool thinking.

Little Myles Jay Barber joined our family on Saturday June 10th. Mom and baby are doing well.
Pics can be found here and here.

Everyone’s (me included) fav distro has been pushed nearer to perfection once again with the release of Dapper Drake. Set phasers to download! Some other Ubuntu highlights (that make ubuntu so easy to love) include:

1. apt-get install vmware-player Oh freaking yes.
2. Support for SPARC and the new Sun Fire models
3. Xubuntu is now in main. BTW: nice startup logo

From Ruby on Rails’ weblog:

Have you ever wanted to write Rails routes using a URL’s subdomain? What about routing based on whether a request was HTTP vs HTTPS? Well, now you can. Recently Dan Webb released his Request Routing Plugin for public use. This plugin lets you create routing rules that use a whole slew of new properties: domain, subdomain, method, port, remote_ip, content_type, accepts, request_uri, and protocol.

You can obtain the plugin from Dan’s subversion repository:

ruby script/plugin install \
http://svn.vivabit.net/external/rubylibs/request_routing/