26 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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Twitter

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By ceben of Blog | The Working Group 4 days ago.
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…array of mockups, we started using " style tiles ", developed by Twitter's own Samantha Warren, in order to develop a design system rather than designing fixed-width pages.

Tips for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

"There are different dialects and new rituals. Furthermore, design is treated very differently than they are used to.... It is incumbent on the designer to open up the design process for collaboration and critique from other members of the team." …

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By Holly of Blog | The Working Group 5 days ago.
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…and vegetarian yoga classes, full of cheese and ideas, a good buzz, and fun new friends to find on Twitter or Facebook over the weekend.

This event is for thinkers, entrepreneurs, graphic designers, fashion designers, models, industrial designers, web developers, animators, film-makers, gamers, writers, musicians, painters, wine lovers, chefs and foodies. We're inviting a carefully curated selection of the city's friendliest, most vivacious people to connect over a glass and a nibble …

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By Adam Keys of The Real Adam 8 days ago.
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…music nerd. I listen to a ton of music, I think about music a lot, and I often seek out new music via Twitter and Rdio. Besides a dislike for showtunes and reggae, I'm a pretty open-minded listener.

Yet, it is exceedingly rare that I seek out live music. When I do, I'm that concert goer who is only buying tickets for long-established acts. In the past several years, I've seen Paul McCartney, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Lucinda Williams, Steely Dan, Ben Folds, and Ryan Adams…

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By Sarah of the evolving ultrasaurus 9 days ago.
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You know more women use Facebook, but did you know that more women use Twitter, tweet more and have more followers than men? [ 9 ]

Senior women age 50 and older control net worth of $ 19 trillion and own more than three-fourths of the nation's financial wealth [ 10 ].

Women have been starting businesses at a higher rate than men for the last 20 years [ 11 ].

Nearly 104 million businesses are majority owned by women. They provide 12 million jobs …

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Deeper integration for third-party services beyond just Twitter and Facebook.

The return of Google Maps.

A Q&A session with Tim Cook at the conclusion of the Keynote where he answers questions from anyone not named Robert Scoble.

The ability to update apps in the background without weird geofencing hacks to accomplish it.

A new App Store app that isn't a complete turd.

An update to OS X that is not only stable and fast, but incorporates new features both pulled …

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On Be Genius 15 days ago.
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For me, Twitter has always been about consuming information and learning. Despite the fear of "missing out" on interesting links or thoughts in my network[1], which is predominantly made of people I respect and trust, I decided that this rapid and varied consumption is not a healthy way to achieve this goal .

It's been two months since I uninstalled all Twitter (and Facebook) applications from all my devices. I still tweet occasionally (using iOS/ Mac's Notification Center

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By Shannon Behrens of JJinuxLand 15 days ago.
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If you enjoy my blog posts on Python, Ruby, Dart, etc., and you're looking for a new way to follow me now that Google Reader is going away, here are my Twitter and G+ accounts:

@ jjinux

gplus.to/jjinux

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By Assaf of Labnotes 21 days ago.
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McDonald's, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!

§ How to stop lying with charts .

§ Sixth Form :

Of course my password's insecure. So would you be if people replaced you every six months.

§ Jorge Ortiz :

Conspiracy theory: Facebook open-sourced Cassandra to sabotage competing tech companies (see: Twitter, Digg, Reddit).

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On WriteLessCode Blog 25 days ago.
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…with your GitHub account here , and drag-and-drop my proposal (search for " Netzke") to the "Your selection" area, along with 9 other proposals. And if you could motivate one or two of your colleagues to do the same - that'd be extra-awesome!

The voting ends in 3 days. Can't express how much I appreciate your support!

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Follow me on Twitter for more updates.

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By Joey of Global Nerdy 26 days ago.
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Click to see the Twitter search for # ThorstenTips.

Wow — Karen Geier is killing it on Twitter with her " Thorsten Tips", a bunch of silly predictions inspired by Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins' crazy predictions that in five years, no one will care about tablets and that Blackberry will be the undisputed leader in mobile tech . They're tagged with # ThorstenTip s, and you should get in on the fun!

I've posted some of my favourites below:

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