As is the case with every language, learning Ruby on Rails from scratch can be quite a pain. We’ve compiled a list of the best Rails resources the Web has to offer, covering installation (both manual and automatic, plus web hosts), tutorials (beginner and advanced topics), books, blogs, forums, cheat sheets, code snippets and API [...]

His 3rd one, and the best one yet. This is AMAZING! read more ¦ digg story

Ever wonder why eBay accepts Canadian Tire Money and Cash2India, but it still won’t accept Google Checkout? A look into why eBay and PayPal do what they do. (Hint: It’s not really about your purchasing safety.) read more ¦ digg story

Does anyone need more reasons to stay away from IE? read more ¦ digg story

A Jon Schmidt Christmas Artist/performer: Jon Schmidt Price: $18 (buy tickets) Begins: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 at 7:30 PM Ends: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 at 9:30 PM Location: Kingsbury Hall 1395 E Presidents Circle Salt Lake City, UT 84112 United States Link: Jon Schmidt’s Home Page Bank of Utah proudly presents A Jon Schmidt Christmas. Make this [...]

Lunch Begins: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 at 1:58 PM Ends: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 at 1:58 PM Entry fee: $25 Location: Utah State University 3900 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84321 USA Link: Subway Lets go get lunch! Tags: lunch food yum! Tags: test, microformats [...]

Identity Workshop 2006 Theme: Identity Begins: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 at 9:00 AM Ends: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 at 5:38 PM Location: Computer History Museum 1401 N Shoreline Blvd Mountainview, California 94043 United STates Registration fee: $250 Last date for registration: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 Last date for paper submission: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 Organizer: Phil Windley Attendee: Justin Ball Link: Workshop Wiki Page Link: Workshop Schedule Link: Identity Open [...]

The Skystream home windmill starts cranking out electricity in scant 8mph winds. Its 12-foot-long blades allow it to hit maximum output (1.7 kilowatts, 30 to 90 percent of most homes ’ needs) at 20 mph and keep its noise on par with an air conditioner. Installation is easy, with all electrical parts contained in the turbine [...]

The 9 live web cams are located at various selected sites located on the border. Works in IE, but the site states that they so not support FF. read more ¦ digg story

“After only 7 weeks after the site launch, there have been 20,000 books exchanged, 100,000 different books are available in the site, and 10,000 people have joined from 67 different countries. The site is translated into 5 different languages, with a soon to be added Japanese version.” read more ¦ digg story

This slashdot article summarizes an article by the Open Garden blog’s Ajit Jaokar, which discusses a growing service called movietally and how it is a “textbook case of web 2.0 design”. read more ¦ digg story

Pressing the ESC key after typing in a character or part of a word while in iChat, Mail, TextEdit, etc. will reveal a drop down menu. This menu contains all the words your computer knows that begin with that combination of letters! Pretty neat, and a great time saver!! read more ¦ digg story

As missiles and hostile rhetoric fly back and forth between Lebanon and Israel, bloggers on both sides are talking to one another. read more ¦ digg story

“With the current price of a new algebra textbook approaching $110 and publishers bringing out a new edition every three to four years just to prevent students from selling their used books, we have decided to create a site where the textbooks are free.” They only have one up right now but plan to add more, [...]

Come on kevin.. we want the “Dark Tipper” reincarnated. Don’t just go out there cancelling people’s account for this count of simple nerdish humour read more ¦ digg story

Short web-based introduction to recursion. THIS WAS BANNED FROM DIGG’S FRONT PAGE??! read more ¦ digg story

Microsoft released a preview of their redesigned site. Lots of AJAX, looks good, but doesn’t work with Firefox. You can scream bloody murder now. read more ¦ digg story

If you want to run Windows (or Linux) on your Intel Mac, but don’t want to mess around with partitioning and rebooting, Parallels Desktop may be just what you’re looking for. Ars reviews the first virtual machine application for Intel Macs. read more ¦ digg story

A group of college students (all of whom had recieved tickets for going over 55) decided to beat the system the best way they knew how — by following it. Lined up across all 4 lanes, they blocked traffic by going 55 in a city where “people going 75 have to move over for people [...]

After just 6 months YouTube is going strong. “Users upload 50,000 videos a day, at last count, and visitors watch 50 million clips per day. Not bad for a company with 26 employees and an office over a pizza parlor.” Interesting stream on the future of YouTube (requires Real Player or Windows Media player). Plus [...]