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via vimeo.com Nice work Matt!

In February 2010 a new blog dedicated to promoting Calgary Developed iPhone Apps will be launched. The goal of this new web site is provide a one stop resource for information on the latest iPhone Apps being developed by local developers. This site will be a FREE RESOURCE for developers to get their latest application showcased and even get a review up before it's launched on the iTunes App Store.

It's so easy that it's bound to be closed at some point Your index.erb needs to live in the /views/ folder. Your images and things need to live on /public/. That's pretty much it.

It's mostly for basic, personal web projects (about 3.5GB worth of old photos and video) that won't serve a ton of traffic, but I also need to experiment so that I can:Be more knowledgeable about the various solutions out there.Automate all facets of server acquisition and maintenance: Chef, Puppet, Capistrano, PHD, moonshine, etc. I want this thing to build itself, rather than to have me having to spend weeks configuring it and setting it up.I know of:SlicehostRackspace CloudEC2 (which probably won't work because of the persistence issues)LinodeprgmrWebbynodeI don't need DNS hosting (already use DNS Made Easy), Email (using Google Apps), or any sort of webmin like interface.

The thing is, to talk about specific hardware (like the iPad or iPhone or Nexus One or Droid) is to miss entirely the point I’m about to try to make. This is more important than USB ports, GPS modules, or front-facing cameras. Gigabytes, gigahertz, megapixels, screen resolution, physical dimensions, form factors, in fact hardware in general — these are all irrelevant to the following discussion. So, I’m going to try to completely avoid talking about those sorts of things.

More than 20 of those fighters have come from the United States, many of them young Somali-Americans from a gritty part of Minneapolis. But it is Hammami who has put a contemporary face on the Shabab’s medieval tactics. In a recent propaganda video viewed by thousands on YouTube, he is shown leading a platoon of gun-toting rebels as a soundtrack of jihadi rap plays in the background. He is identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, “the American,” and speaks to the camera with a cool, almost eerie confidence.

Advance-fee fraud (AFF), also known as 419 scams and Nigerian scams, exploded in 2009, with victims losing more money than ever before. This is according to the latest analysis from Dutch investigation firm Ultrascan—a company that has been monitoring the activities of 419 scammers since 1996—which says that victims lost almost 50 percent more money in 2009 than 2008. via arstechnica.com

Yesterday, the Westboro Baptist Church and their subtly-named picket group, God Hates Fags, brought their dog-and-pony-show to San Francisco. That's right -- the freaky people came to freak out the freaky people. The religious group, based in Topeka, Kansas, usually pickets soldiers' funerals, reasoning that they died defending a gay-loving country. Thursday, they set their sights on a larger target: the headquarters of the social-media giant Twitter. Apparently, God hates Twitter.

Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012. Carbon financiers have already begun leaving banks in London because of the lack of activity and the drop-off in investment demand. The Guardian has been told that backers have this month pulled out of a large planned clean-energy project in the developing world because of the expected fall in emissions credits after 2012.

And I think that the omission of it from the iPad as well is curious. If they want to appeal to "regular users" as an internet device - it just seems really odd. Most of the "regular users" I know do a few things online: Surf (Facebook, MySpace) Email Games Chat Hopefully they add a camera for v. 2 and then have video chat as an option - just like every laptop and iMac sold for the last 4-5 years.