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Entries from August 2009

another article from carsonified about photoshop techniques

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

http://carsonified.com/blog/design/photoshp/advanced-photoshop-techniques-for-web-designers-part-2/

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Tags: web

article from 37Signals about Chef

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1872-nuts-bolts-configuration-management-with-chef
http://github.com/37signals/37s_cookbooks/tree/master

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Tags: code · rails · ruby

a nice article about ideal term sheets

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/23/the-funded-publishes-ideal-first-round-term-sheet/

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Tags: business · web

A couple of good articles from Carsonified for web development

August 21st, 2009 · No Comments

http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/six-useful-tips-for-web-designers-and-developers/
Some handying tips for writing code and help with the development process.
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http://carsonified.com/blog/design/5-advanced-photoshop-techniques-for-web-designers/
A really nice article about how to create some cool effects in photoshop.  I am a developer but it is nice to be able to get a little bit done on the design side and having tutorials like this makes it look like you [...]

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Bamboo post about block helpers to help DRY up views

August 14th, 2009 · No Comments

http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/8/14/block-helpers

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Tags: Rails Plugins · code · rails · ruby · web

post from the GitHub about Capistrano cleanup

August 6th, 2009 · No Comments

A good article from the GitHub guys about cleaning up and speeding up their deployment with Capistrano.
http://github.com/blog/470-deployment-script-spring-cleaning

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link to post about rails + PostgreSQL

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

http://awesomeful.net/posts/45-postgresql-rails-and-why-you-should-care
it gives an overview of what PostgreSQL provides, some history of the debate between MySQL and PostgreSQL and why you should consider using PostgreSQL.

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Tags: code · rails