5 month ago
jonhicks : FontStruct - A new web application for creating your own fonts from a series of geometric pieces, and sharing the results. I had a play as a beta tester and found it really easy and a jolly good wheeze too
Greg Storey : Fontstruct! - Best web app ever.
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13 month ago
nelson : Rails vs MySQL - Amazingly detailed technical article about how Ruby on Rails design choices can interact badly with MySQL's limitations
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14 month ago
nelson : iPhone apps - Good roundup of webapps in an iPhone friendly format
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : WebShell - SSH from an iPhone! AjaxTerm tweaked for the iPhone interface. [via] #
nelson : WebShell - Ajaxy terminal emulator via a web browser; iPhone optimized
deusx : WebShell - "It runs on any browser capable of JavaScript and AJAX. You can use it from any computer or iPhone/smartphone."
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15 month ago
nelson : SlimTimer - excellent, simple webapp for tracking billable hours
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Ryan Carson reveals DropSend's month on month earnings - What a fascinating move, and what an interesting situation to be in, to have build a simple functional service that generates money month on month for limited amounts of physical effort.
Andy Baio : Ryan Carson publishes DropSend's monthly profits - it's still baffling why he's selling it if it takes so little effort [via]
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Webb has relaunched his 'dirk' project on the interconnectedness of all things - I remember this from the first time around when he launched it in 1996 and promoted it on Lance Arthur's glassdog.net webnerd artistic community. This time I believe it's built on Ruby on Rails. If you think about it, it's sort of a proto-anti-tagging...
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26 month ago
kellan : acts_as_crime_against_orm - Not a reference to the ORM patent case. Rather an ode to AR's serialization backdoor. Amazing how much win you can get for swapping a bit of a purity. We use this technique extensively with SSC. (serialization that is, though trading on purity as well, t #
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30 month ago
tehu : Winner of the day for the Yahoogle's lottery is... - Writely
François Nonnenmacher : Writely so - Google acquires Writely
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33 month ago
Cameron Moll : Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 - Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005. Interesting list. Though I wonder if the blanket term "Web 2.0" is appropriate for all of these.
plasticbag : The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 - I'm not buying the Web 2.0 = web app concept as such, but this is still a pretty solid list of good web apps out there and hence (at the very least) pretty much a place to find the gold standard to get inspired by...
François Nonnenmacher : The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
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33 month ago
joshua : web.py: makes web apps
Rod Begbie : web.py: makes web apps - New minimalistic Python web framework from Aaron Swartz. [via] #
Paul Hammond : web.py: makes web apps - We think about the ideal way we'd like to write a web app. Then we write the code to make it happen.
Nelson Minar : web.py release - Congrats to Aaron for releasing yet another Python web framework!
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33 month ago
Rod Begbie : Rhapsody - Real take their Windows-only all-you-can-eat music streaming app, dump the drmcrypto into a cross-platform Firefox plugin, and expose the catalog as a webapp. #
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plasticbag : Writeboard is a new project from 37 signals - "Writeboard is a web-based hosted service that lets you write, share, revise, and compare. I?m not going to go into details, lest I give away too much too early, but I will say it?s quite useful and we think you?ll like it."
Andy Baio : 37 Signals' Writeboard launches - nicely designed wiki with clean change tracking, but I'm surprised it's not real-time like Jot Live [via]
jimray : Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare. - "Wikis are icky" - wtf? Looks cool, though, and it'll be a nice addition to my Basecamp account.
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