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20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners | How-To
While I’m not there yet this CSS for n00bs list seems like it will come in handy. Hopefully sooner than later.
tags: css, beginners, webdesign, n00b

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Jaiku opens the playing feild

I blogged about the disruption that Jaiku and Laconi.ca will bring to microblogging but I’m really interested to see what people think of the code. Haven’t really heard anything yet.
Jaikido Blog: JaikuEngine is now open source!
JaikuEngine is now open source!
Yesterday, we flipped the switch and moved Jaiku to App Engine. Today, we are open sourcing [...]

g33k links 03/03/2009

gist: 67060 - GitHub
Seriously though, I don’t believe we’re successful yet. Success to me isn’t about money and it’s not about keynotes. Success is about being able to fall asleep at night without your mind racing with new ideas. Success is not worrying if the new feature or bugfix is going to be a huge [...]

g33k links 02/27/2009

10 Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers | How-To | Smashing Magazine
tags: Rails, tips, n00b

Self-Education Resource List
A great resource for online self education.
tags: education, selfeducation, books, resources, tools, n00b

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g33k links 02/26/2009

Top 50 Wordpress Tutorials - NETTUTS
I know have a good weeks worth of tutorials to wade through. It’s amazing to me how much you can do with WordPress.
tags: wordpress, tutorials, webdevelopment, tutorial, n00b

What managers would ask managers… « Zompist’s E-Z rant page
If they interviewed managers the way they interviewed developers. I wonder what the [...]

g33k links 02/24/2009

Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
Thinking about building a startup on RoR? Then this is a must read.
tags: rails, scaling, posterous, n00b

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g33k links 02/20/2009

OpenOffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do - Solutions by PC Magazine
Some great tips on how to get the most out of OpenOffice.
tags: openoffice, openoffice.org, n00b, tips

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g33k links 02/19/2009

RestrictedFormats - Community Ubuntu Documentation - Annotated
i need to remember to install this.
tags: ubuntu, linux, multimedia, mp3, codecs, restrictedformats, n00b

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g33k links 02/17/2009

Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com
I hear a lot of talk about a “new Internet” and there are obviously a lot of smart people working on their own versions of one but I have a hard time seeing people switching. It’s not like you could just flip a switch and move everyone over. [...]

g33k links 02/13/2009

DIY: The First-Timer’s Guide to Building a Computer from Scratch
This is one project I really don’t have a desire to try. Building my own PC means custom ordering off a Web site.
tags: n00b, pc, build, diy, computer, howto, hardware

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