During a brief conversation about SSH clients between guys on my team at work:

PuTTy is like Windows Methadone

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DevZone has a Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2 RefCard written by Peter Armstrong available for free download. Their registration/”download” process is a bit kludgy and intrusive but the RefCard is worth the effort.

Categories: Flex, Rails, Ruboss
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I’ve been uber-quiet lately (in terms of blogging, mind you… I’m still my standard verbose and vocal self) because I’ve been super-busy. New job, new project, needing a new home, etc., etc., etc. However, I’m taking a minute to check in because I think it’s pretty funny that I literally just typed the following at work:

p.methods.grep(/ass/)

One of the guys I’ve been talking with while smoking was on an absolute tear about web accessibility and usability, soapbox-preacher-style. I am totally in the right place.

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It never ceases to amaze me that the minute almost any new piece of hardware with a microprocessor comes out that it’s followed by an announcement that somebody has figured out a way to put some variant of Linux on it. There are some seriously savvy folks whose technical abilities are amazing but strangely they seem obsessed with putting Linux on everything… because they can. (I actually think this is a cool phenomenon.)

Similarly, Doug McCune has reverse-engineered Adobe’s new special-search-indexing Flash Player which gives Google and Yahoo’s web spiders far greater insight into SWFs (this means there’s been another big step forward in Search Engine Optimization for content in Flash! Woot!). The most amazing part of Doug’s reverse-engineering analysis is that he’s managed to communicate the entire process in just one comic-strip panel. Bravo, sir, bravo!

It’s completely worth a look even if Flash/SEO, etc. isn’t your thing.

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