Mandarin Soda

acts_as_chimp plugin underway this evening….finished product will be here shortly. update: an early version of the plugin has been added to a github repository. Please see this post.

Interesting New Yorker article on the current microfinance vogue. Sites like Kiva are unquestionably great, but I wonder if they’re maybe missing an ingredient? “What poor countries need most, then, is not more microbusinesses. They need more small-to-medium-sized enterprises, the kind that are bigger than a fruit stand but smaller than a Fortune 1000 corporation.”

Here’s how Google went about doing so.

Location, location, location. Now this is interesting…. In some industries they say location can be everything…

Link to NYTimes Article

Interesting post from the High Performace Web Sites Blogs. Perhaps not surprisingly, efficient page serving is good for your users and our environment.

If you haven’t yet checked out ExpanDrive and you do a lot of remote file editing, you’re missing out.

Doing an install on a VPS (or elsewhere), getting funky soul-sucking ruby inline permission messages in your Mongrel logs and feeling extraordinarily frustrated, dumb or both? Google to the rescue! This post and this post kept me sane. After installing freeimage and image science, create a .ruby_inline directory inside your tmp directory with the same [...]

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