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Why an overblown government project would have been a lot better had it been built by/followed the approach of mySociety.
(tags: enterprise governmentit mysociety nhs)
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‘No one in government IT will have done this before’ | Technology | The Guardian
A report on the Power of Information Review barcamp
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ruby-dtrace’s ruby-dtrace-0.0.4 Documentation
Ruby bindings for dtrace. Could be handy for tuning code. It’d be nice to see it also make it easier to work out the trace commands.
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Yahoo’s explanation of OpenID
(tags: documentation openid yahoo)
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stereogum: Trent Reznor Proposes Internet Tax
Trent Reznor’s experiment with new distribution models is pushing him towards the “tax on service providers” line. He doesn’t seem to have given his experiments very long before jumping to this conclusion.
(tags: distribution futureofmusic music musicindustry)
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Plugins - Validation Scenarios - Agile Web Development
Nice syntax for setting different validations for different scenarios in ActiveRecord models
(tags: activerecord rubyonrails validation)
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Looking at the drop in sales amongst the ten biggest selling albums of 2000 and 2008, and pointing out that just because the hits aren’t as big doesn’t mean the market is unhealthy.
(tags: futureofmusic longtail music musicindustry)
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20-Minute Quick Start Guide for RFacebook
“showing you how to create a Facebook application from scratch using Ruby on Rails in 10 easy steps”
(tags: facebook plugins rubyonrails)
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Dare Obasanjo - Myth: RESTful Web Services Don’t Need an Interface Definition Language
“he examples of Atom service documents and link elements in HTML, highlight that there is real world value in describing the interfaces to your RESTful Web Service. In addition, Atom service documents show that you can define an interface definition
(tags: atom rest webservices wsdl)
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Blogger in Draft: New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider
Blogger blogs are also becoming OpenID providers. A lot of people now have OpenIDs. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more sites consuming OpenID as well as serving it.