Quite Useful Weekly Roundup
This week we posted a selection of command line time savers, the source code for a Ruby Twitter scheduler, and a review of online collaboration service Woobius.
I was having a bit of fun with mashups this week, so I posted a link to DJ Lobsterdust who makes some incredibly witty and skilled tracks. If you like that, it’s worth checking out Girl Talk too.
A lot of Twitter/Digg style sites were announced this week: Daily RT and Twittl were heavily linked to. Although these types of sites don’t seem wildly popular right now, their obviousness is leading some people to believe Twitter’s future will be based on reputation: a combination of Google’s PageRank with social networks.
On the Mac apps side, I found Warranty Hero which is an interesting app: it aims to help you track when you purchased items along with their receipts. Page Capture also seemed to strike a chord, I’ve been using Paparazzi! for a few years to do the same thing — great apps for designers building images for a portfolio or for clients.
I posted a few developer links, but one that stood out was an OCUnit tutorial. I’ve been a Ruby programmer for several years, where unit testing is part of a day’s work. In the Objective-C (iPhone/Mac) camp, however, unit testing isn’t part of the scenery. It’s worth getting to grips with OCUnit though, if only to save your sanity in the long run!
