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I like nvALT ( http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/ ) as a replacement for notational velocity. It is a fork of NV that adds many features. TODO list, fullscreen and markdown su…

Something that needs to update so frequently shouldn't poll for its data. It would be a better idea to create a Comet server. That simplifies synchronization since you don't have t…

Me and my friends created groupieguide.com for managing these kind of things. We would be more than happy to help setup something like this.

He is not advocating that you get your great UI to work on IE6. He is advocating that you get a lame UI just for IE6 users.

I think you hit the nail right in the head when you mention all these different services. There are many products out there that expand our features, however using and mashing thes…

We think that there are many users that want a web page for their group but don't want to interact online. GroupieGuide is a gets out of the way solution where most of the interact…

I did not mean that people would do a literal translation. I think that people can translate the _value_ of the content into other languages.

It benefits everyone when individuals speak on the language that they feel more comfortable with. If what they have to say is valuable it will be translated to other languages anyw…

I made a light version of haml for javascript called baconl. It doesn't support embedded code, but I have found that it is not needed when used with most javascript frameworks. htt…

There is an Auto-pair characters checkbox under Text Editing in the preferences.

If you select the 9+6 and then insert the opening parenthesis it will wrap everything automatically. This is not really intuitive, but the extra idiocy is there for a reason.

I agree, seeing all of the documentation on the same page helps you learn other functions that you might otherwise not look at. Also, the higher level the language the less the pro…

Looks like gravity helped: "At over 100,000ft the balloon lost its inflation and the equipment was returned to the earth. "We travelled 10km to find the sensors and photographic ca…

Like with many other measures to prevent piracy, the crackers would find ways to remove the morality reminders and the paying customers would get stuck with them.

This is a very interesting article about how "literally" is used to mean "figuratively." http://www.slate.com/id/2129105/

Lua is a multi paradigm programming language that is very popular with game makers. There's also an engine written in Lua for making 2d video games called Love http://love2d.org/ .…

A few years ago there were some papers about logging keystrokes by recording the sounds of the different keys in the keyboard. Keyboard Acoustic Emanations: http://www.truststc.org…

HTML validation is of great value when debugging, even javascript. It can discover things that are easy to miss like unclosed tags and repeated ids. It is difficult to write a whol…

Vlad is another good Capistrano alternative written on top of Rake. http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html