Links for the first week on July 07

By Ian | July 7, 2007

Railing :

Ruby on Rails For Linux – LinRails : a binary package that includes Ruby-1.8.6, Rubygems-0.9.4, Rails 1.2.3, Mongrel 1.0.1, MySQL-5.0.41, ncurses-5.6, OpenSSL-0.9.8e, and zlib-1.2.3. making it easy to get a Ruby on Rails development environment running in no time.

really DRY (don’t repeat yourself) : generating models, migrations and tests off of one meta-model.

Web Stuff

Kijiji (local and free classified) eBays answer to Craigslist (eBay also owns 20% of Craigslist). Huh?
All the News That’s Fit to Wiki : The New York Times on the Wikipedia, a neutral point of view article about the Wikipedia, how a page evolves and the people behind it.
How to spot the dreaded non-coding architect – Not IT strategists but does apply to project leads and third party consultants. Scarier then Cthulhi.
Ajax Rain, a collection of Javascript, DHTML, Ajax Inspiration – about 200 scripts! Use the tag cloud to search/filter for particular libraries.

Culture

Hormiga Canyon – a SciFi short story by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling
Maelstrom II: an independent film of an Arthur C. Clarke SciFi short story – “Cliff Leyland, a down-on-his-luck worker who hitches a ride on a freight capsule from the moon to earth in order to save money. As the protagonist is catapulted homeward, power to the electromagnetic launcher fails — sending him into an unstable orbit around the moon. Thus begins a race against time to save him before he crashes into the lunar surface.” from “The Wind from the Sun” collection published in 1972.
Kanye West Is Akira – The video for Kanye West’s new single takes major inspiration from Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic AKIRA film.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s is doing Virtual Tokyo in Second Life – I thought Tokyo WAS a virtual world inside Second Life!
The Misadventures of Hello Cthulhu – Cthulhu meets Hello Kitty : a HP Kawaii Horror?