If you haven’t checked out Yehuda Katz’s and Carl Lerche’s gem bundler yet, now is the time. This project replaces the horribly broken dependency resolution in Rails and what we all know and use as config.gem‘s. Ever seen can’t activate $gemname ($gemversion = runtime)? Or maybe my favorite, when it can’t even ...

Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television. Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen.

社会人の人たちは、いままさにwikipediaに寄附してほしい。あと6億円ほど必要なのだ。wikipediaがない人類の未来など考えられない。未来永劫の人類全体の財産だと思う。

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Want to be a dark-knight git-wielding Rails coder? Here’s a quick run-through of how you might want to set up git with a new Rails app. I’m assuming you’ve managed to compile and install the 5TB of dependencies required to install git (sudo port install git-core). You’ll also want to set your name and email in the global ...

I love those truisms that people use to describe a situation. Strangely they are usually based on obvious failures, but perhaps it's simply easier to teach people based on failure than success. Some relatively well-known truisms include:

Although many users of the Kindle will use it as a book reader and nothing else, the device is so jam-packed with possibilities that you’d be a fool not to take advantage of them. The Kindle can be used for GPS, wireless connectivity, playing music, and so much more. Read on to find out how you can be a better student or person with these ...

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Few months earlier, we showed readers some 20 best websites to download free Ebooks and had been receiving a lot of feedbacks from readers together with their personal favourite. We thought that’s great and really appreciate each and every single plug.

2008年あたりから、その存在を知らしめてきた3Dテレビが、2010年、一気に開花しそうだ。ソニー、パナソニックの2社が正式参入を表明したほか、展示会では各社の試作機が続々と登場している。3Dはテレビの新たな新機能となるか？　その現状と展望をレポート�

Mary McDowell, executive vice president and chief development officer of Nokia, shows how future devices with nano and bio sensors will evolve at the Way We Live Next at the Nokia House.Nafid Imran Ahmed, back from Helsinki, Finland

オープンソース・フリーウェアを毎日紹介するブログ。日々の業務の効率化、新しいサービスのネタ探しにどうぞ。SNS、SBS、CMS、オフィス、画像編集、ユーティリティ、Firefoxアドオン、テキストエディタ、ゲーム…ジャンルは様々。

If you watched “The Frontline of Mexico’s AIDS War” by the Washington Post in 2008, or enjoyed the “Choosing a President” presentation by The New York Times, you were watching the talented work of Nancy Donaldson. During her short career she has already produced a wealth of innovative multimedia projects from two of ...

　ネットレイティングスが11月26日に発表した10月のインターネット利用動向調査によると、mixiの総利用時間が急増し、Yahoo！JAPANに次ぐ2位に浮上した。8月末にスタートした「mixiアプリ」が人気で、1人当たりの利用時間が急伸した。

オープンソース・フリーウェアを毎日紹介するブログ。日々の業務の効率化、新しいサービスのネタ探しにどうぞ。SNS、SBS、CMS、オフィス、画像編集、ユーティリティ、Firefoxアドオン、テキストエディタ、ゲーム…ジャンルは様々。

オープンソース・フリーウェアを毎日紹介するブログ。日々の業務の効率化、新しいサービスのネタ探しにどうぞ。SNS、SBS、CMS、オフィス、画像編集、ユーティリティ、Firefoxアドオン、テキストエディタ、ゲーム…ジャンルは様々。

オープンソース・フリーウェアを毎日紹介するブログ。日々の業務の効率化、新しいサービスのネタ探しにどうぞ。SNS、SBS、CMS、オフィス、画像編集、ユーティリティ、Firefoxアドオン、テキストエディタ、ゲーム…ジャンルは様々。

What do you do when you get your hands on Intel's latest, most powerful desktop processor? If you're us, you build an edgy, powerful yet still affordable system around it. We walk you through the process.

オープンソース・フリーウェアを毎日紹介するブログ。日々の業務の効率化、新しいサービスのネタ探しにどうぞ。SNS、SBS、CMS、オフィス、画像編集、ユーティリティ、Firefoxアドオン、テキストエディタ、ゲーム…ジャンルは様々。

Want to learn from the best in the business? We’ve created groundbreaking BlackBerry software (we are finalists in the 2009 Developer Challenge). We have a complete set of training programs available for BlackBerry development that will turbo-charge your BlackBerry development efforts. Whether you are a newbie or an experienced developer, we ...

It's arguably the most scrutinised piece of rock ever. Now an even closer look at a meteorite from Mars suggests it may show signs of life after all. In 1996, David McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texax, and colleagues proposed that that a chunk of Mars rock found in Antarctica, called ALH 84001, contained possible signs of past ...

2008年あたりから、その存在を知らしめてきた3Dテレビが、2010年、一気に開花しそうだ。ソニー、パナソニックの2社が正式参入を表明したほか、展示会では各社の試作機が続々と登場している。3Dはテレビの新たな新機能となるか？　その現状と展望をレポート�

出展者数は120組140組を超え、すごい盛り上がりになりそうです。今後公開するすべての情報はこのページからリンクしたいと思います。お楽しみに！

インターネットでは地域の学習塾の人材募集など、特定エリアの情報にしか興味のない人が相当数存在する。こうしたニーズをくみ取るエリアターゲティング広告が台頭している。同市場の潜在能力を分析する。

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Windows only: Using a friend's system or a public computer and want to keep your activity private? CleanAfterMe, a free utility from the makers of similarly-useful utilities like WirelessKeyView, has you covered. The single-file application, which easily runs from a USB drive, provides an all-in-one interface for wiping out all the records of ...

IPv6 or Internet Protocol Version 6 is the next generation protocol for the Internet. It's designed to provide several advantages over current Internet Protocol Version 4 (or IPv4).

Like many of you, I went to elementary school, high school and college. I took such and such classes, earned such and such grades, and amassed such and such degrees.

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The New York Times is shocked -- shocked! -- to find personal enrichment of American elites at the heart of the rape and gutting of Iraq. Who could possibly have ever foreseen such a scenario as the Times revealed on Thursday, describing how "influential American adviser" Peter Galbraith helped "ram through" highly ...

In order to further explore the capabilities and limitations of Go, I thought it would be interesting to try implementing something that was practical, non-trivial, and of interest on its own. With that in mind, we're going to spend the next few posts creating an implementation of the Kademlia DHT in Go.

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Support for developing and debugging Mono applications from within Microsoft Visual Studio has been a feature requested from the .NET developer community since very early in the project.s history. While our own MonoDevelop continues to grow in features in adoption, we also understand that developers working in Visual Studio today are in no rush ...

While Google hasn’t officially released their own repository to download extensions yet (although you can officially submit them here), third-party sites such as Chrome Extensions have a large repository of extensions ready for you to download.

Ah, the calm before the storm. Like just about everyone else, I'll be driving somewhere for the big feast, get stuck in traffic, and finally arrive a little worse for the wear, ready to stuff my face silly. It'll be worth all the trouble in the world, but there is no denying it's hard work. So tonight I felt like something that was decidedly not ...

Some say it looks like a witch's hat, others compare it to a giant green traffic cone. Not many seem to think that the object, devoid of branches and decorations, in Poole town centre is much like a Christmas tree.

There's a flattering amount of retweeting of the There Is This Company post and the follow-up going on (thank you!), and one of the angles people suggest is that you don't really need involvement in social media to succeed in the marketplace if your products are as good as Apple's.

Around 15,000 suspected pirates may soon get legal letters accusing them of illegally sharing movies and games. ACS:Law plan to send notes to the accused in the New Year offering a chance to settle out of court for "several hundreds of pounds".

アドビシステムズは11月26日、「Flash Player 10.1」および「Adobe AIR 2.0」の概要を紹介する説明会を開催した。 Flash Player 10.1とAdobe AIR 2.0は、2010年第1四半期のリリースが予定されているRIA実行環境の次期版。11月17日にベータ版が公開されたばかりで、現在開発が進め

lo malo de montar las particiones de esa manera es que cuando tratas de borrar un archivo dentro de esa particion... las borra pero no las envia a la papelera sino que desaparecen para siempre. cosa que no pasa en kde :S extraño no crees?

The National Australia Bank has confirmed a spike in customers using its retail banking services from internet-enabled mobile phones is likely to lead to it replacing security pass codes - now sent by SMS - with biometric voice prints within a year because of growing security concerns.

As I pointed out yesterday, if under the new regime you fancy life as secret squirrel, you are not really supposed to tell anyone that you had applied for a job. Frankly applying to be Head of the Mauritius Station on this blog is generally felt by those in that particular line of business to be not really secret enough. Therefore rather than ...

New evidence has made it more likely that remnants of Martian microbes were transported to Earth in a meteorite, it was revealed today. A study by scientists from the American space agency Nasa has found chemical signatures in the rock strongly associated with life.

Perlが動くサーバー（できればmod_perl）とiPhoneとGoogle Maps APIがあればすぐできる。 cf. mod_perl2導入法→ mod_perl2 on Ubuntu - La Faïence @ KMS International

With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure out what graph or chart suits your data best. This is a guide to make your decision easier for one particular type of data: proportions.

To set things up, first, mount the network disk onto your Mac. Just browsing Network in Finder won't do it; make sure you hit "Connect to Server" from the Finder Go menu and mount the shared folder as a drive on your Mac. (Here's more on sharing files across the network with Leopard.)

Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge ...

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TORONTO: Earlier this month, Toronto city officials met with local web designers, developers, and community activists at the city’s first ever “Open Data Lab” at Toronto Innovation Showcase.  The event followed the launch of TO’s open data site, toronto.ca/open, that morning.  Here’s a picture of the action, taken from Mark Kuznicki’ ...

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The World's Biggest / Largest / Longest Multi-Touch (and evidently Multi-User) Wall [sensory-minds.com, click Projects then choose 19.07.2009) seems to be installed in Nürburgring, a famous motorsport race track around the village of Nürburg, Germany The two-piece wall consists of a huge LED media facade (at the top), and a multitouch ...

Max Kossatz hat die letzten vier Wochen alle deutschsprachigen Tweets mit den Tags unibrennt, unseruni und audimax abgespeichert. Gemeinsam haben wir uns mit der Analyse dieser Tweets beschäftigt. Während Max sich vor allem um die sehr gelungene Visualisierung des zeitlichen und örtlichen Verlaufs von #unibrennt beschäftigt hat,

My office/craft area is becoming a nursery so I am working hard at getting all my random craft stuff under control and organized. With more free time from not shooting I am going a little crazy with DIY projects for her room. To name a few things I am currently making: a platform bed, a rug, curtain rods, a picture wall, a mobile, some custom ...

Note: ignore this line – purely for claiming my blog on technorati purposes – DVQT6JKUY72H “Had the best toad in the hole tonight… even though the toad had nearly jumped out the hole it tasted fantastic.” The Pom tweeted.

When we talk about intellectual property issues, many maximalists on both the copyright and patent side of things have this inherent sense that "copying" is "bad." Not just "bad," it's downright immoral. You hear words like "freeloading," "parasites," "pirates," "thieves," "copycats," etc. Yet, time and time again, when we look at industries or ...

For decades, the most popular destination for migrants the world over has been the United States. It was in America that the downtrodden and the footloose of this world saw their destiny. But America's ability to accommodate such people has always been finite. Billions of poverty-stricken people today crave the comfort and the affluence of a ...

Amali the giraffe developed a crick in her neck while being transported from The Wilds park in Ohio to Tulsa Zoo in Arizona Since undergoing treatment from Tulsa Zoo's resident vet Dr Kay Backues, Amali has been kept in medical quarantine since her arrival on October 18.

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ミクシィやグリー、サイバーエージェントなどが上場する東証マザーズ市場のマザーズ指数が11月19日まで14営業日連続で下落した。これはマザーズ指数が設定された2003年9月以降の最長記録となる。新興市場に何が起きているのか。

In April 1968, two weeks after the riots that devastated US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the British Tory politician Enoch Powell (who as minister of health between 1960 and 1963 had presided over the large-scale recruitment of nursing and health staff from Britain's former colonies) predicted that a similar ...