Twinkle me Twitter. If you’re on Twitter and got a broken-in iPhone, check out Twinkle. You’ll want to install this one. Compared with MobileTwitter and m.twitter.com, it’s the better client of the three. It does pictures (so does MobileTwitter).
Here’s the kick: besides being the best client, it also knows where you’re twitting from, and can grab statuses from anyone in a 1-50 miles radius. Now, that’s mobile. And counting the traffic report that showed up when I first played with it, relevant.
Git cheat. Git link roundups seems to be all the rage nowdays. Here’s a couple that will come in handy. The Git cheatsheet (download, print, stick to cubicle wall). And if you’re using cheat (aren’t you?):
cheat git cheat gitsvn
This will be big. I finally took the time to look over the Passenger architecture (aka mod_rails). For large scale deployment I still prefer reverse proxy, but for shared hosting, this one is a killer. Finally, Rails has a solution for those who can’t afford a dedicated host.
This will take a bit longer. Ditz is a Ruby-based distributed bug tracking system. The basic premise is keeping all issues logged in the same repository as the source code. That means you can work on issues the same way you work on code, locally, and along different branches. There’s a others out there, Ditz seems to be the only one making forward progress.
In the cloud. So we have Software as a Service. But not everything can ride on pre-existing code, which is why we also have Platform as a Service. I was just happy to stop there, but no, we also need to thin of the Do-Evil crowed. Yes, Crimeware as a Service. With that in mind, I already started planning my Halloween costume: Assaf as a Service. I’m sketchy on the details, but I do know it will involve clouds of some sorts.
Alex Barnett