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Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List. Scott Hanselman has an awesome list of his favorite 120 developer and power tools.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. Word on the street is that popular webhost Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. That’s great news, especially if you’re already married to DH and wants to do Ruby on Rails development. For everyone else starting out or looking for a new host, the premier choice for Rails hosting… Continue reading Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. The Importance of RSS “Unfortunately, Google’s well of good data is being poisoned by the likes of comment spammers, trackback spammers and adsense mongers. And while Google, the other search engines and the blog software community have been fighting the good fight with ideas like nofollow, Typekey… Continue reading Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big

CSS: A Designer's Guide. Whether you're a CSS adept who needs help remembering the 342 approved hacks, or a traditional print (or Dreamweaver) designer for whom CSS layout is scary and confusing, Charles Wyke-Smith's designer's guide to CSS has you covered. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

PC World: Microsoft Builds Its Own Peer-to-Peer App. Researchers at Microsoft's labs in Cambridge, England, are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs, and software applications to end users over the Internet. [Tomalak's Realm]

O'Malley intensifies action on closings. Sixteen months after he first announced plans to close a large number of parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston, Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley is suddenly a man in a hurry. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

PayPal gets into the merchant account business. PayPal effectively enters the merchant account business with Website Payments Pro. Now sites can use PayPal to process credit card transactions without having to send folks to PayPal. This is what a lot of people have been waiting for. Look out merchant account companies.  [Signal vs. Noise]

New GTD/Covey Diagrams for D*I*Y Planners. Users of the D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition will note that there are two new diagrams included that were not part of the original D*I*Y Planner kit. I promised I'd make them available for the classic and A5 versions of the kits, and here they are for your downloading… Continue reading New GTD/Covey Diagrams for D*I*Y Planners

Implementing a Personal Information Architecture. A project I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year is implementing a personal information architecture. This has included creating a better-organized professional archive, but has gone well beyond that to include all the Stuff I deal with on a daily basis. I am using a very specific… Continue reading Implementing a Personal Information Architecture

15,000 page views per day 26 steps to 15k a Day offers 26 tips and promises the following: Do those 26 things, and I guarantee you that in one years time you will call your site a success. It will be drawing between 500 and 2000 referrals a day from search engines. If you build… Continue reading 15,000 page views per day