Entries Tagged 'Cool Links' ↓

I’m competing in Rails Rumble 2008 this year with my PBG peeps and Nate Ostgard. Its a 48 hour competition to write a web application using Ruby on Rails! Check out our live blog here, and the final product once it is done!  To get an idea of what we’re working on, check out some preliminary text from our about page (first draft hehe)

iheartgames is a new way to schedule console games with your friends and family. If you’re tired of playing with strangers, or not having enough people online to get a great multiplayer experience, then iheartgames has you covered.

iheartgames lets you add your list of games on any console from our complete and updated database of games from metacritic.com. It also manages a fully featured friends list with tons of contact methods, so you know your friends will always know when you want to play.

You, or any of your friends, can schedule game times for any game in your list. Notifications (twitter, SMS, etc.) will go out automatically to any of your friends owning the game. They will then be able to reserve their spot in your game until all available spots are filled. With iheartgames, you are guaranteed a full house with people that you trust across all platforms. Pickup games are a thing of the past with iheartgames.

Please check out my new RSS feed at http://feedproxy.google.com/DbaWill if you like RSS!

This will help me to see who is reading my blog, if anyone is at all.  I would appreciate it if you could update your RSS if you’re using my feed.

If anyone needs help setting up RSS, let me know in the comments.

If you live in Las Vegas, you owe it to yourself to check out House Seats Las Vegas.

http://houseseatslv.com/

$80 per year, and you get free tickets to tons of shows that aren’t selling well.  Everything from concerts to blue man group.  All free, and you can get more than one ticket.  Totally worth it even if you only see 1-2 concerts a year for free.

A guy at work turned me on to this, and he goes to see 5 or 6 shows a week.  This week he got me a ticket for Stanley Clarke for free.  They opened up on Thursday.  He says most shows don’t show up until 2-3 days before the actual show, but many are available for weeks at a time.  Many popular shows aren’t available until that evening, but he’s seen some of those crazy $200 a ticket shows for free by checking the night of the concert.

Let me know if you sign up, we’ll go see some concerts together.

For those of you that don’t know, Amazon’s S3 is a paid service for offsite storage that charges really competetive rates for data storage and transfer. I recently wrote a post about MySQL backups in general, and mysqldump specifically. Someone just took the solution I wrote about to a whole new level.

This link to Shanti Bradford’s blog YARB explains how the software works and gives examples for the very simple configuration. I am in love with this solution for smaller databases or funded projects with a few dollars to spare for a super clean offsite backup solution. Leave it to a Rails person to find the easiest and best solution to a problem that everyone has! Big ups Shanti!!