If you can’t do it with an Arduino, is it really worth doing?
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| 2v | 1 | Agile Web Development with Rails |
| 3 | 3 | The RSpec Book |
| 4^ | NEW | Programming Concurrency on the JVM |
| 5 | 5 | Crafting Rails Applications |
| 6^ | 7 | Programming Ruby 1.9 |
| 7v | 4 | Rails Test Prescriptions |
| 8v | 2 | Hello, Android |
| 9 | 9 | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks |
| 10v | 6 | HTML5 and CSS3 |
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My Arduino
Why would you want to buy and program an open-source, single-board microcontroller? Why, to improve your home-brewed beer, of course!
Wooh! got our #arduino powered 1950s telephone up and running! #knowledgelives — @bluec
Making a temperature logger for my fermentation with an #arduino Gonna be interesting :) #homebrew — @stoffers
Etch a Sketch clock: http://bit.ly/b5Gdfw #awesome #maker #arduino — @erinldoyle
Arduino Tic-Tac-Toe http://bit.ly/hcHs48 #arduino — @tipie
A networked candy grabber http://www.pimedius.com/Candygrabber #arduino — @dboardman
Spent a very interesting afternoon writing laser harp control software in #arduino. — @moray_macdonald
Made a bunch of optimizations on the #oracle database. Now everything is running smoothly on an #arduino. I'm very proud of myself! — @cscmeu
How to Make a Brain-controlled Device http://bit.ly/dKXL3H #arduino — @romainsauvez
HIDUINO: Your #Arduino is Now A #MIDI Interface http://bit.ly/eAlK36 — @jocequelo
Monkey Automatons! http://bit.ly/egyXH7 #arduino — @tipie
This Coding Life
I'm missing out. Apparently, I need to stop coding so much and spend more time on twitter arguing about how best to write code. — @benrady
I also feel that "fast-paced work environment" means "disorganized with lots of overtime." http://bit.ly/gC4JSA — @bphogan
Have to say this again: Regex section of Stackoverflow is the outstanding late Saturday night infotainment http://bit.ly/i4esC4 — @staffannoteberg
I may be the last living human who remembers using submit and supersub in CP/M. — @tottinge
@coreyhaines As context-driven testers, we've named at least three contexts in which context-driven is a bad idea. Craft demands that. — @michaelbolton
You know what keeps me grounded? The aluminum case on my MacBook Pro. #shocking — @benrady
SpacebarOnTheMacQuitWorkingTakingItToTheGeninusBar — @venkat_s
Need to Know
Dogs are the new fashion exercise accessory. http://j.mp/goUwfH /via @khoi — @tswicegood
Antique clown shoes: The nouvelle vague of hipsterism twitpic.com/4bb2u7 — @noradio
Acid test: RT @Fritinancy: RT @Mxrk: Adding lime juice to any recipe is low-cal way to find out if you have any paper cuts — @makower
ProTip: calling self when you mean to call super can lead to bad, bad things happening. — @jeff_lamarche
Today was better than yesterday. Tomorrow will be better than today. And so on. #recursion #tailcalloptimization — @chadfowler
note to self: laptop as alarm clock works best when plugged into wall #savebytriplelyredundantalarms — @adamgoucher
Must be just about leave-secret-iPhone-in-a-bar time of year. (via @drewmccormack) — @dimsumthinking
nothing says "viable and sustainable business model" like building an app on top of a service owned by someone else. — @bphogan
Ceg?owski's first law of Internet business: "Never get in the way of people trying to give you money" http://pinboard.in/blog/173/ — @tottinge
Why does my iPhone insist on correcting thing to thong? Amusing, but not helpful. — @duncan
This month we were tuned to the tweeting channel of David Boardman, Michael Bolton, James Duncan Davidson, Erin Doyle, Chad Fowler, Adam Goucher, Corey Haines, Brian Hogan, knowledgelives, Jeff Lamarche, Moray Macdonald, Joel Makower, Marcel Molina, Staffan Nöteberg, Christophe Nowicki, Tim Ottinger, Tius Piepin, Jocelyne Quélo, Ben Rady, Romain Sauvez, Kristoffer Sivertsen, Daniel Steinberg, Venkat Subramaniam, and Travis Swicegood. Feel free to tune us in. Those who would follow tweets must suffer their tweets to be followed.

