Check out Minions if you like playing Dota (which is a very popular multiplayer WC3 Mod). The guys over at casualcollective did it again! Very addictive game 
Ok, next round…
Update:
Here is the blogpost about Minions on the CasualCollective Blog and there is also a video available on youtube:
[youtube=http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhKgX1XwYw&fmt=18]
Have fun!
I like it. Especially the Quickpress. I can see me use this more often from now on.
That is the question.
Do you rush out and deliver product eventhough you know that it needs more polish? Do you use your customers / users as beta testers because you ran out of time polishing?
Blizzard, Ning, Apple delivered when the product was amazing. They earned their customers respect and are doing great. The famous Blizzard statement: “It’s ready when it’s ready.”
How about you? Do you want to lead the pack with amazing product or be a mediocre wannabe?
You decide.
making Blizzard Entertainment a cool $112mio over night. Nice uh? Too bad I will never see the cool new content. 
WoW is too much of a timesink.
Found via Are Video Games Recession Proof?
Digg – founder Kevin Rose talks about digg’s recommendation engine and how to improve the user’s engagement in digg and other social media sites like reddit. Some interesting insights. The recommendation engine is written in Python and not PHP. Maybe they were inspired by this book: Programming Collective Intelligence? 
I’m on twitter now as well: http://twitter.com/marcelscherf and I’m using thwirl on my mac to quickly update my status. Pretty nice so far. Oh and follow me on twitter
Check this out if you have dependencies in your git projects and look for an easy way to handle them: http://www.rubyinside.com/giternal-easy-git-external-dependency-management-1322.html
Looks interesting.
Just a quick tip:
It is possible to pass a :layout option to a render :partial call like this
<%= render :partial => 'some_list', :layout => 'list_widget' %>
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