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• How to Build a “Spy Camera” App for an Android Phone with Ruby and Sinatra
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Ruby Inside
  Mike Leone In Turn your Android Phone Into a Remote Spy Camera with Ruby in 15 Minutes, Mike Leone demonstrates how to use Ruby, Sinatra and Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) to build and deploy a phone-hosted...
• Stealth Mode = Miss The Boat Mode
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Stealth Mode is the name of a start-up strategy where the founding team develops their product and business in secret. The tactic is based on the fear that, if their idea were to get out, other companies would...
• The right way to position against competition
  Published: August 23, 2010
  Source: A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
  This is Part 4 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. After seeing hundreds of startup pitches for this year's Capital Factory program, I can tell you that the two most common errors i...
• $528 Worth of Optimization Tools for $25
  Published: August 23, 2010
  Source: Software by Rob
  Don’t know if you’ve seen this crazy deal at appSumo, but it’s essentially $528 in website analytics and optimization services for $25. It includes: 3 Months of Performable Starter Servi...
• One of the most wonderful flash games I have played in a long time
  Published: August 22, 2010
  Source: reddit.com: what's new online!
  submitted by Pation to gaming [link] [22 comments]
• Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene
  Published: August 14, 2010
  Source: Ruby Inside
  http://mongomatic.com/ (or on Ruby Inside) Back in June, I did a comparison of Mongoid and MongoMapper, the two best known MongoDB libraries for Ruby. Now, Ben Myles has brought another to the fore: Mongomatic....
• How to turn carrots into bacon
  Published: August 10, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  Via the BB Submitterator, reader kentbrew says, Here is an instructional Flickr set that shows you exactly how to turn the carrots you allowed to grow way beyond the point where they were edible by human beings...
• Google Apps OpenID with Rails and Devise
  Published: August 9, 2010
  Source: The Ruby Reflector
  By Fabricius of casperfabricius.com 2 days ago. For the Ruby OpenID gem to play nicely with Google Apps, Googles own extension gem for this purpose must be loaded and required with require gap...
• Cow Clicker
  Published: July 31, 2010
  Source: Play This Thing
  Ian Bogost was on the Colbert Report, if you didn't see it, you can tell because his Facebook portrait says so. Bogost has long been using gameplay for dry satire, the variety best tasted with a spot of mustard...
• Mind-blowing miniature sculptures carved into the graphite of a pencil. My favorite was the key on a ring.
  Published: July 30, 2010
  Source: reddit.com: what's new online!
  submitted by dishie to pics [link] [62 comments]
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