July 2010
1 post
listening to "Charlie →
Now just Moonhearts. Now just fucking rock you in the face until your face comes our your ass awesome.
June 2010
5 posts
listening to "Sun Kil Moon - Salvador Sanchez... →
People do not write songs this good about the UFC.
Video Chat is about to enter the Early Majority... →
listening to "Villagers - →
do you wish #arcadefire were european? check out #villagers’ new record “becoming a jackal”. this band can go places.
20 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Every Website →
These are all great WP plugins suitable for almost any site. I wonder if you can make a metapackage to install all of them at once…
HTML5: Deja Vu on Ajax →
What’s in HTML5? A lot.
May 2010
6 posts
Start In The Middle « yield thought →
Great advice for anyone who wants to start a new project.
“One can’t help but laugh that two of the most historically closed companies in...”
– Adobe and Apple: Please Spare Us the Platitudes About ‘Open’
WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features →
Learn a little about WP3. It is butt-perforating.
New Programming Jargon →
Fun!
7 things one can do to scale up a web application... →
More scalable goodness: Python/Pylons, MongoDB(NoSQL) and Redis. I wonder if you can make a new LAMP acronym out of this stack….? No. You can’t.
WatchSteve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit has some nice points about scalability, especially early on in the life of your web app.
April 2010
3 posts
listening to "Smashing Pumpkins - A Song For A... →
I’m hopetimistic about the latest #smashingpumpkins effort
hurl →
Hurl makes HTTP requests.
Enter a URL, set some headers, view the response, then share it with others.
Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs.
Official Google Blog: The next generation of... →
March 2010
9 posts
Web Developer - Google Chrome extension gallery →
New Mozilla Labs Project Wants to Give You Total... →
Cool project, I can definitely see this making much more sense than any third-party site hosting your contacts. Sure, they have to live somewhere, but attaching them to the browser identity is a smart move to consolidate peoples’ organization efforts.
DoubleDutch: Build Your Own Check-In App For Your... →
I like the idea of whitelabeling popular social apps. I’ve never used them, but I like the idea. ;)
SpotRank Is Skyhook’s Intelligent Location... →
The hits keep coming on location data.
Vicarious.ly: SimpleGeo’s One Location-Based... →
The way of all things.
Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool →
WatchVagrant - Getting Started on Vimeo
This is a compact feature list of Vagrant. For more information on any of the specific features, read the getting started guide.
Automated virtual machine creation using Sun’s VirtualBox
Automated provisioning of virtual environments using chef
Forward ports to the host machine
Full SSH access to created environments
Shared folders allows you to...
February 2010
18 posts
Building An Active RFID People / Asset Tracking... →
Faye: Bayeaux protocol Comet server for Node.js →
This is my favorite technology right now. Streaming messaging systems and the Javascripts that love them.
Never Mind the Valley: Here's New York City →
Represent!
listening to "Eddy Current Suppression Ring -... →
favorite trans-tasman bands: the clean, the go-betweens, and now the fantastic eddy current suppression ring.
Coding Horror: Get Your Database Under Version... →
Email as Identity: Google Turns on WebFinger →
From the article:
You can think of WebFinger as an email-centric cousin of OpenID. While OpenID associates your identity with a URL, WebFinger links your identity to your email address. WebFinger can store metadata about your account and make it publicly accessible. This data can include your public profile data, information about other services that are used by this email address, a URL to your...
listening to "Charlotte Gainsbourg -Vanities" →
Charlotte Gainsbourg produced by Beck. Sounds pretty sweet.
listening to "Moonface - Marimba and Shit-Drums" →
If you are the type that likes to zone out to music and code this is for you.
How do we kick our synchronous addiction? - Die in... →
Flickr Developer Blog » Using, Abusing and Scaling... →
I love these types of articles because they get to the heart of how scaling can be accomplished.
“We’re doing exactly the same as ten years ago. We now say “iPhone” instead of...”
– QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession
Freelance programmers, how do you organize your... →
Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast →
The main challenge of the project was bridging the gap between PHP and C++. PHP is a scripting language with dynamic, weak typing. C++ is a compiled language with static typing. While PHP allows you to write magical dynamic features, most PHP is relatively straightforward. It’s more likely that you see if (…) {…} else {..} than it is to see function foo($x) { include $x; }. This...
Discount — a C implementation of the Markdown... →
Rendering Markdown faster is always awesome.
Comet with node.js and V8 - amix.dk →
Javascript has such an incredibly bright future; on the web and off its making huge waves. Check out the slides and download the PDF for some source code to see how realtime web applications can be built right now.
January 2010
15 posts
20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited... →
Alex Payne — On the iPad →
Color Identifying System For The Color Blind →
Cool solution to the problem.
★ Apple, Adobe, and Flash →
When I was a teener in the 90’s I used to not like Macs because I hated the idea of people using a different platform. It didn’t make sense to me that anyone would ever want to use anything other than Windows because it just made the world of software that much more annoying to code in. Later in the 2000’s I saw OSX and (having at this point turned into a total open source...
MusicDNA – The New Deluxe File Format From MP3... →
The possible successor to the mp3? It certainly seems like its time. I don’t know why my files need to automatically update themselves with blog posts, though. That sounds like somebody was playing techno-boggle.
The Boing Boing Guide to the 2010 Indie Games... →
A great guide to IGF 2010.
Gordon: Flash Runtime Implemented in Javascript →
This… is pretty amazing.
Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web →
Track the internet.