• 10 Ways to Create a Better About Page for Your Blog – Making your about pages more useful
• iPhone App Dev Online Conference, brought to you by Think Vitamin – Think Vitamin is putting on a one day, online, iPhone Developer conference.
• State of the Art – Presenting the MiFi of Your Dreams – NYTimes.com – Third, the service price for this no-commitment, unlimited, portable hot spot is — are you sitting down? — $40 a month.<br />
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  via nytimes.com Wow. Who want's to buy my Verizon MiFi and take o …
• Ruby Summer of Code Wrap Up – Ninjas on a Penny Farthing – The final thing I worked on (and that is mostly complete, but still has a few bugs)<br />
  was an Ubuntu-based Virtual Appliance that makes it super simple for any user to get started<br />
  with rvm and h …
• One day sale made my paid app free, now I cannot revert! – Android Developers | Google Groups – Nothing — once free, always free. You can publish a new app, in a new package, that has a price.<br />
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  via groups.google.com Wow, sucks not to know this ahead of time. If you're an Android …
• Rails 3 in a Nutshell – rails3 in a nutshell in O'Reilly's "open feedback" publishing system.
• Sending or receiving email with Rails? Easy | Lead Thinking – Another "receive email from rails" solution. this one involving google app engine and remail-engine which costs ($0.0001/recipient w/ 2000 free).
• Receiving Incoming Email in Rails 3 – choosing the right approach « Steve @ DynamicEdge – A rundown of some options for receiving email in your Rails 3 app
• Cocoia Blog » iPhone 4 icon PSD file – PSD file for iPhone, iPad and the rest of the iOS suite, whatever that turns out to be.
• All the sizes of iOS app icons – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl – visual guide to iOS icons
• 12 Common CSS Mistakes Web Developers Make – css tips for web developers
• Design Optimization: Webbynode’s Front Page +45% conversion rates. | Vospe – via vospe.com Walkthrough of how Webbynode redesigned their front page to get a big boost in conversions. …
• GitMac – Git on a Mac, Made Easy – Another git gui client for mac, pretty but not sure what it brings that I'm not already getting with gitx
• MacUpdate September 2010 Bundle – 12 Great Apps for $49.99 – via mupromo.com Another MacUpdate bundle is out, 12 apps for $50. Looks like a no-brainer if you want Toast 10 Titanium (pays for itself and then some). Other good looking apps (to m …

• stJhimy – Rails 3, Ruby and JQuery documentation into Mac OS Dictionary – via stjhimy.com updated osx dictionary files for rails 3, ruby and jquery. …
• Premium WordPress Themes | Elegant Themes – via elegantthemes.com Looks like another good, affordable source of wordpress themes. …
• Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 Schedule – Confreaks, LLC – via confreaks.net Lots of "coming soon" videos, but they have a link to Glenn Vanderburg's "Real Software Engineering" that got a bunch of positive press on twitter during the ruby #ho …
• How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea | Ramblings of a Web Startup in Progress . . . – I am a big fan this whole “minimum viable product” philosophy. I’ve probably adapted it to my own interpretation, but basically I look at it as bootstrapping on crack, get your product out with …
• Google Wave Gets Server/Web Client – Linux Magazine Online – For everyone that thought Wave was in the ground, buried, there might be life yet. Wave in a box.
• UniversityTutor Races Past 200 Paying Customers – via startbreakingfree.com Brian share's his 2 year journey to more than 200 paying customers for his SaaS app. …
• Slaying dragons with git, bash, and ruby – Ruby Pond – An often over-looked feature when using git are the various hooks you have available. They cover pre-applypatch, post-update, and anything between or beyond. I suspect a lot of people may have …
• How to Make Client-Converting Pages That Sell | Jaime Mintun – via jaimemintun.com Tips on how to make a good landing page. …

• Carrer Blog: iPhone Wireframe Kit – Google Docs – via vcarrer.com Vlad puts Google Docs drawing document to good use creating an iPhone wireframe kit (with links to download it and a blank iphone template) …

• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

• Clouds & Clouds Midnight – TextMate Themes by Fred LeBlanc – not as nice as IR_Black but looks like a really nice theme none-the-less
• Think Vitamin » The Hidden Magic in TextMate – ⇧⌃T – To-do list – This feature scans the project for code marked as ‘FIXME’, ‘TODO’ and ‘CHANGED’. It provides an informative list of them along with comments.<br />
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  via thinkvitamin.com okay …
• WordPress › WordPress MU Domain Mapping « WordPress Plugins – This plugin allows users of a WordPress MU site or WordPress 3.0 network to map their blog/site to another domain.<br />
  <br />
  via wordpress.org If I flip on the MU stuff it'll be to play with this …
• Think Vitamin » How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App – Great "cheat sheet" on some metrics to track (and how to track them) for your saas app
• Home – YoruFukurou – Awesome twitter client for mac, if it supported multiple accounts I'd use it all the time. If you only have one twitter, this might be for you.
• git cheatsheet and class notes – notes from a talk Nate did + a cheatsheet he created for git as well.
• Desirable Properties for a Web Crawler – I aim to build a web crawler that can download a billion pages in a week. Wow, awesomely ambitious goal, but some good tips about web crawlers/scrapers in general
• The 10 Essential Ingredients of Successful Sales Pages | Copyblogger – Looks like today is the day of copywriting tips
• Ten Ways to Improve Your Writing | Fuel Your Writing – Read aloud – When you think you’ve completed the writing task, read it aloud. Does the article flow, make sense, capture your interest and have a point?
• Ten Ways to Improve Your Writing | Fuel Your Writing – Read aloud – this has saved me countless times

• Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels | UXMovement.com – put your form fields in a list, with labels on top and your users can fill them out faster. so this says.
• 10 Mistakes That Start-Up Entrepreneurs Make – WSJ.com – Spending too much time on product development, not enough on sales, that one really resonates
• Building a Standing Workstation – Hacks – another diy walkstation
• Is there a good jQuery plugin or JS code for time durations? – Stack Overflow – another hit on parsing integer to time in javascript this one in jquery
• Datejs – An open-source JavaScript Date Library – This came up in #railsbridge, looking for a way to parse int to time duration

• The League of Moveable Type – a great collection/community of open source fonts
• Salad? Gimme steak. – switching from cucumber to steak to eliminate some feature/step nastiness with certain scenarios and making features easier to read, write and modify.

• first post – woot …
• Lego NXT Becomes Latest to Use the Robot Operating System (video) | Singularity Hub – Linking up Lego Mindstorms NXT to the Robot Operating System (ROS)

I think it’s an interesting series because we take a non-trivial application, one that relies on quite a few external resources (gems and plugins), is well covered with specs and features and represents a realistic scenario for the upgrade.

The series looks like this:

• Move to bundler (we’ll face this in Rails 3, so lets make it work in Rails 2.3)
• Upgrade to Rails 3 and just get the console and server to run
• Get the specs to pass, part 1 and part 2.
• We made some bundler mistakes, we correct them here.
• Get the features to pass, part 1 and part 2.
• Move to AREL (published soon)

So what about the new format?

Producing screencasts is hard. If you don’t think it is, try to do one or two. Then have someone else watch them and give you honest feedback. It’s hard. I have a profound respect for Ryan Bates. As of the end of August 2010 he’s released 229 Railscasts and I don’t think he’s ever missed a week.

Istvan and I pair program on 99% of the screencasts we do right now. So we’re coordinating schedules across a seven hour time difference and post production involves at least 2 audio streams. Not to mention we block out a 2 hour time period to record and our episodes end up being epically long.

Moving forward we’re going to switch our format to include:

• Weekly short screencasts, 5-15 minutes, and focus on specific tools, tips and very narrow topics.
• Monthly longer screencasts that cover more complicated topics or pull together some of the shorter topics into a more complete example.

If you have specific topics you’d like us to cover, let us know. You can follow @bddcasts, @jschoolcraft and @ihoka for updates.

• Express – node web framework – node js web framework