Rubberband Wound

I’m at MinneBar right now, the turnout is huge. It’s been said that this is the largest group at a BarCamp other than one in India.
 I’ll be posting notes from panels during the day.

Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.
(tags: Calendar GMail mozilla Software Productivity Integration Google thunderbird Extension)

I’m attending RailsConf in a few weeks, and I went through the panels earlier to figure out what I’m going to attend. Here is my tentative plan…
Thursday, May 17

0830 - Intro to Test-Driven Development for Rails
0830 - When V is for Vexing; Patterns to DRY Up Your Views

Friday, May 18

0915 - DHH Keynote
1045 - Building […]

HDR Tutorial - Featuring HDR 2.0
(tags: Art Cool Image lighting Photography Photoshop Software tools Tutorial toRead HowTo Inspiration)

Star Wars LEGO by Chris Deck: MINI Models
(tags: StarWars Lego Cool)

Paypal IPN in Rails with Active Merchant | opensoul.org
(tags: Paypal Rails Tutorial Plugin)

The new Google Toolbar came out today with a new button - ‘Picks For You’. I don’t have the new toolbar, but thanks to InsideGoogle I’ve gone through the picks for me. I’m moderately impressed, but not blown away. The majority of the picks were appropriate but nothing too out there.
Lots of Minneapolis/St. Paul and […]

I have no amazing insight to offer onthis post, but hopefully it’ll make life easier for anyone looking in to the same issues that I just had with Prototype.
We’re making a dashboard where users are dynamically adding widgets, many of which need their own javascript functions to work properly. We really don’t want to have […]

New Wii Opera Browser + Hidden Wiimote Browser Controls
(tags: Wii Nintendo tips Internet)

25 excellent usability/UX articles and resources – Jens Meiert
(tags: Design toRead tips Resource List Interface Experience)

Particletree » Breaking The Rules
“I am always striving to perfect workflow methods that incorporate separation, semantics, and other “proper” web design techniques. But with each page developed I […]

WordPress is being cranky about embedding YouTube videos here, so you get a link instead - The Go! Team’s video for "Junior Kickstart" features Ms. Pacman and some Ghosts running about. It’s quite entertaining.
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Nothing too exciting to post, except that I had a great weekend - broke even in poker, wandered Minneapolis for a day (which it turns out is a pretty good way to get to know someone), got a lot of piddly tasks done around the house, played with a very cute baby, and even did […]