links for 2007-09-17

• Floatutorial: Tutorial 8 – all steps combined
  floating two-col layout
  (tags: cs tutorial)
• Max Design – Two columns with color
  (tags: css tutorial)
• Brain stem may be key to consciousness
  An article in this week’s Science News discusses whether the brain stem may play a more central role in consciousness than it’s usually given credit for.
  (tags: neuroscience science research brainstem!)
• AFP: Australia says some water cuts permanent
  (tags: australia environment global_warming news)
• Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
  (tags: css web_design utilities cool)
• An Exercise in Metaprogramming with Ruby
  (tags: ruby reference tutorial)
• Web Worker Daily
  (tags: blogs web_dev development web_design resources)
• deliGoo – Delicious Search Engine
  (tags: firefox search)
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – OAuth: Standardizing Authentication and Authorization for Web APIs
  a technology initiative called OAuth which is being cooked up by the Web platform folks at Yahoo!, Google, Six Apart, Pownce, Twitter and a couple of other startups.
  (tags: authentication software/social openid)
• ONLamp.com — An Introduction to Erlang
  (tags: computer_languages concurrency reference)
• Work at the dining table: Avoiding hell at work by spotting Dilbertian job descriptions
  …The trick is to take a close look at the bits which use words like ‘leverage’, ‘teamwork’ and more recently, ‘rock star’.
  (tags: jobs amusements blogs)
• Some Thoughts on CouchDB and Relational Databases
  CouchDB is a distributed document-oriented database which means it is designed to be a massively scalable way to store, query and manage documents.
  (tags: database information_management)
• Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale
  (tags: ruby RoR apache capistrano mongrel web_dev reference)
• At Street Level, Unmet Goals of Troop Buildup – New York Times