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10 Must Have Firefox Addons for Web Design & Development [webdev]
Firefox is a powerful browser with plenty of additional capabilities, which help the Web Developers & Designers to ease their work a bit. A plethora of addons have been developed for the infamous browser and most of them are a designer’s dream come true. This post is dedicated to finding out such great addons.

1001 Freelance Projects [employment]
Freelance job postings from multiple marketplaces

15 Beautiful Free Web 2.0 Fonts | Dzine Blog [webdesign]

16 commands and shortcuts for Twitter [socialmedia] [twitter]

20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know - NETTUTS [Ajax] [web] [programming]

About Python [python]
Mark Lutz's Python Links Page

About.com: Ruby [ruby] [rails] [employment]
Find a Job as a Ruby and Rails Programmer--Becoming an RoR Programmer

ajax tree « Ajax on Rails [rails] [ajax]
Sample Rails Application - A demo for the ajax based drag drop tree in rubyonrails

Ajaxian [ajax] [javascript] [programming] [web]

Alexa the Web Information Company [internet]

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Docs: Alexa Web Information Service (API Version 2005-07-15) [web]
The Alexa Web Information Service makes Alexa’s vast repository of information about the traffic and structure of the web available to developers.

American Dietetic Association [reference] [health] [nutrition] [food]
The American Dietetic Association is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. ADA is committed to improving the nation’s health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.

Anchorage Daily News [news]

Australian [news]

Best Websites For Ruby On Rails Examples and Tutorials [rails] [ruby]
From The Tutorial Blog

Book Publishing Companies - Publishing Books - WEbook Online Company [writing]
An online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to join forces to create great works of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers and essays, short stories, children's books and more.

Boston.com [news]

Boston.rb [ruby] [rails]
Home page of Boston Ruby Group

Brand-Yourself.com Blog [socialnetworking]
Personal Branding

BrianRivard.com
My personal home page

Building a Software Company: How to sell your software for $20,000 [blog] [programming]

Burn, Baby, Burn Those Calories! [health] [exercise] [calories]
Good overview of different activities and how many calories each burns.

CalorieKing - Diet and weight loss. Calorie Counter and more [health] [calories] [nutrition]
Excellent reference for looking up calories in food.

Capistrano [web] [tools] [rails]
Great for automating tasks via SSH on remote servers, like software installation, application deployment, configuration management, ad hoc server monitoring, and more.

Capistrano | Google Groups [capistrano] [rails] [ruby]
Google group for Capistrano.

Capistrano: Home [capistrano] [rails] [ruby]
Capistrano is a tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines.

Chicago Tribune [news]

Create free online surveys and polls with PollDaddy.com - Use our award winning survey software to conduct your market research. [web] [tools]
With your free account from PollDaddy you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.

Crewdog.net [boating]
Alan Stewart's Page

Dallas Morning News [news]

delicious/help/api [web] [programming] [api] [del.icio.us] [webservice]
Read/write access to your Delicious bookmarks and tags via an HTTP-based interface

delicious/help/api [api] [delicious]
Read/write access to your Delicious bookmarks and tags via an HTTP-based interface

Developer's Guide: Protocol - Blogger APIs - Google Code [api] [google] [blog]

Digg - All News, Videos, & Images [news]
Discover the best of the web.

Dr. Dobb's [programming]
The World of Software Development

Eating to Boost Your Brainpower – Longevity Center – EverydayHealth.com [health] [food]
Excellent article on what to eat and why.

Economist [news]

Edge [science]
The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.

Edge Rails Framework Documentation [rails]

eHow [howto]
How To Do Just About Everything

Eigenclass [ruby] [blog] [programming] [metaprogramming]
eigenclass.org is mostly Ruby stuff: code, information on the internals, news about the 1.9 branch, unusual hacks...

Expand Your Development Skills With Creative Tech Projects [webdev]
Inspiration from Smashing Magazine

Food and Nutrition Information Center [reference] [health] [food]
Information resource from the USDA National Agricultural Library

Four Ways Ruby on Rails Can Help You | Six Revisions [ruby] [rails]

Free CSS Templates [web] [tools]
Download free CSS templates - Free CSS Templates

Free CSS templates - Download Free CSS Templates [web] [tools] [opensource]

Free Ruby on Rails Training Online Course by Sang Shin [course] [ruby] [rails]
Ruby, JRuby, and Rails Application Development (with Passion!)

Freelance Jobs Contract Consulting Projects | Sologig [employment] [consulting]
Consulting, contract, temp and freelance opportunities.

FriendFeed [social] [blog] [web]
FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.

genetic-programming.com-Home-Page [software]
The home page of Genetic Programming Inc., a privately funded research group that does research in applying genetic programming.

Get Healthy | LIVESTRONG.COM [health] [fitness] [nutrition]
Collection of articles on health, fitness, diet, etc.

Getting Your Existing Rails App on Facebook [rails] [ruby] [facebook]

GL Networks Inside » Howto use the Ext JS Treeview (Ext.tree) with Ruby on Rails [rails] [javascript]

Google Actualités [news] [francais]
Google News Canada

Google Noticias [news] [espanol]
Google News Mexico

hackification [programming] [blog] [web]
Rediscover the joy of coding.

Helium - Where Knowledge Rules [writing]
Community contributed articles on a variety of subjects.

Herald Sun [news]

How to win at Wii Golf [wii] [golf]
Tips from an expert at Wii Golf

Html Color Codes [web] [tools]
Quickly find HTML color codes for your website

HttpURLConnection (Java Platform SE 6) [http] [programming]
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol spec

IEEE Spectrum Online: Technology, Engineering, and Science News [science]

iKnow! - The intelligent learning platform. - iKnow!

InfoQ [blog] [programming]
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community

Insoshi [social] [opensource]
Open source social networking site by the authors of RailsSpace

Internet Evolution [web] [internet] [news]
The Macrosite for News, Analysis, and Opinion about the Future of the Internet

Japan Times [news]

JavaScript Event Reference [web] [programming] [javascript]

Job Press Blog [employment]
Jobs for creative professionals, web designers, web developers, web programmers, content writers, bloggers, etc.

Joel on Software [software]

Klout [socialnetworking]
Twitter Analytics - Measuring Influence Across The Social Web

Knol: a unit of knowledge [web] [reference]
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.

Leveraging Ruby’s Standard Library - Open Source Ruby Best Practices - O'Reilly Media [ruby] [programming]

London Times [news]

Make Me Sustainable :: Your Guide to a Sustainable Tomorrow [web] [socialnetworking]
Boston Ruby Group member Wyatt Greene works here.

Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship [software] [programming]

Mashable [blog] [web]
All That's New on the Web

Montreal Gazette [news]

Moscow Times [news]

net/http: Ruby Standard Library Documentation [programming] [rails] [ruby] [http]
This library provides your program functions to access WWW documents via HTTP, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol version 1.1.

New York Daily News [news]

New York Times [news]

Newburyport Daily News [news]

North Shore Web Geeks — A monthly meetup for web folks north of Boston, MA [web] [social]
Meet monthly at the Grog in Newburyport

Nutrition Frenzy [blog] [nutrition]

ODP - Open Directory Project [internet]

Official Google Data APIs Blog: Using Ruby to work with the Google Spreadsheets API [api] [ruby] [google]

Orkut [social]
Social networking site by Google

Pacific Business News [news] [business]

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music [music]

Program Advisor [college] [scholarship]
ProgramAdvisor offers the key information you'll need to help make this important decision in your life easier. From scholarships to career advice.

ProgrammableWeb - Mashups, APIs, and the Web as Platform [web] [tools] [rails]
See APIs for hundreds of useful web service providers.

Prototype JavaScript framework [web] [tools] [rails]
Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications.

Qtrax Site [music]

Rails Framework Documentation [programming] [rails] [ruby]
The official up-to-date Rails API documentation.

Rails Internationalization (I18n) API [rails] [ruby] [i18n]
The Ruby I18n (shorthand for internationalization) gem which is shipped with Ruby on Rails (starting from Rails 2.2) provides an easy-to-use and extensible framework for translating your application to a single custom language other than English or for providing multi-language support in your application.

Railscasts - Screen Scraping with ScrAPI [rails] [ruby]

Recent hpricot Bookmarks on Delicious [ruby] [hpricot] [scraping]
hpricot Bookmarks

RegExLib.com Regular Expression Cheat Sheet [web] [tools]

Regular-Expressions.info [tools] [programming]
Regex Tutorial, Examples and Reference - Regexp Patterns

Representing Trees in a relational DB [programming] [sql] [database]
Describes an approach for handling hierarchical data in a relational database.

Resource Description Framework (RDF) / W3C Semantic Web Activity [programming] [internet]

RSpec-1.1.11: Overview [web] [tools] [rails] [test]
RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It provides two frameworks for writing and executing examples of how your Ruby application should behave

Ruby Hacking Guide [ruby]
Project to translate into English the Ruby Hacking Guide. The RHG is a book that explains how the ruby interpreter (the official C implementation of the Ruby language) works internally.

Ruby Inside: Ruby blog with daily tips, news, code and fun [ruby]
Ruby blog with daily tips, news, code and fun

Ruby on Rails [ruby] [rails]
The main site for Ruby on Rails. Contains downloads, documentation, links, etc.

Ruby on Rails Jobs [ruby] [employment]

Ruby on Rails Work [ruby] [rails] [employment]
Job listings

Ruby Programming Language [ruby]
Main page for the Ruby language. Contains downloads, documentation, news, etc.

Ruby Screen-Scraper in 60 Seconds - igvita.com [ruby] [screenscraping]
Utilizes Firebug and Hpricot

Ruby Worst Practices - Open Source Ruby Best Practices - O'Reilly Media [ruby] [programming]

Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 " Data extraction for Web 2.0: Screen scraping in Ruby/Rails [ruby] [scraping] [hpricot]

ruby-on-rails-of-topic-list : ruby-on-rails-of-topic-list [class] [ruby]
Off topic list for Ruby On Rails Programming With Passion class

ruby-on-rails-programming-with-passion | Google Groups [ruby] [rails] [course]

Ruby5 [ruby] [rails] [podcast]
Welcome to Ruby5, where we bring you five minutes of Ruby news twice a week. Ruby5 is updated every Monday and Thursday afternoon, and with it you'll get a quick taste for what's happening in your community. We highly encourage you to listen to the podcast on our website and share your thoughts and comments on any of the stories at ruby5.envylabs.com.

RubyForge: Welcome [ruby] [rails]
RubyForge is a home for open source Ruby projects

RubyGems Manuals [ruby] [rails]

RubyGems Manuals [ruby] [rails]

RubyPulse [ruby] [rails] [screencast]
RubyPulse is a site for Ruby screencasts.

Science Channel [science]
Space, Technology, Earth Science, Geology

Science news and science jobs from New Scientist [Science]

Scientific American [science]
Science and technology information from Scientific American magazine.

script.aculo.us [web] [tools] [rails]
web 2.0 javascript

Seattle Times [news]

Seed: Science is Culture [science]
Seedmagazine.com aims to provide our readers with the most relevant, insightful and entertaining original science content on the web.

Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [web]
The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.

Skewz.com - All sides of the story [news] [politics]
Skewz is a place to read conservative and liberal stories selected by users.

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters [technology] [news]
Technology news.

Smashing Magazine [webdesign] [ajax] [webdev]

Snook.ca: Tips, Tricks and Bookmarks on Web Development. [web] [software]
Tips, Tricks and Bookmarks on Web Development.

Social Media Consulting: Connecting The World With Uptown Uncorked [blog] [web]
Michael J. Cohen - Gave a presentation at North Shore Web Geeks 10/23/08. See also mashable.com.

St. Petersburg Times [news]

The Breakdown of Modern Web Design [web] [ruby]

The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health [reference] [health] [food] [nutrition]
Reference maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Official YAML Web Site [ruby]
YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.

The Rails Documentation Project [rails] [ruby]
The hub for community participation in documenting Ruby On Rails.

The Rails Way [rails] [ruby] [blog]
All about best practices in Rails application design.

The Rails Way: RailsConf Recap: Skinny Controllers [rails]
Avoiding fat controllers and using models for non-persistent data.

The Rubyist [ruby] [rails]
The Rubyist is a technical magazine focused on Ruby, Rails, Merb, and anything else that surrounds the programming language that we all know and love.

The Secret Lives of Fruits [nutrition]

the { buckblogs :here } [programming] [rails] [ruby] [capistrano] [blog]
Assorted ramblings on programming, ruby, and rails from the author of the Capistrano remote-administration utility.

Twitter API Wiki / FrontPage [api] [web] [social] [software] [ruby]

Twitter: What are you doing? [social]
What is Twitter? * What? * Why? * How? What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing

UK Guardian [news]

USA Today [news]

userinstinct.net - Your phone book and address book [lookup]
Phone, name, address search.

UserNameCheck [web] [tools]
Cool utility to see what social networks your username is being used.

Wall Street Journal [news] [business]

Washington Post [news]

Washington Times [news]

Web Development Fallacies - Problems and Difficulties of Website Development [webdev] [software]

Webmaster Toolkit :: listing of mime types [web] [programming] [reference]
This chart shows you a list of common MIME types and their corresponding file extensions.

Welcome to Clean Eating Magazine! [health] [food] [nutrition]

WordNet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [opensource] [internet] [software]
WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language.

Working with Rails [ruby] [rails] [employment]
Job listings

Writing Backward-Compatible Code - Open Source Ruby Best Practices - O'Reilly Media [ruby] [programming]

www.neeraj.name - thoughts on ruby, rails and other technical stuff [ruby] [rails]

XmlHTTPRequest in Ruby on Rails [Ajax] [Ruby] [Rails]
Xml HTTPRequest allows data passing between the browser and the server without reloading the page, thus giving the user a much better experience.

Yahoo! Health: Diet & Fitness, Mind & Mood, Longevity, Conditions & Diseases, & Drug Guide [reference] [health] [fitness] [portal]
Collection of health, diet, and fitness related articles.