February 2009
56 posts
JavaScript Function Call Profiling →
Automated code profiling in FireUnit
WatchThe Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step... →
Josh Freese! You are officially getting it done, dude.
Quicken Online Can’t Believe Mint Is Doing So... →
How good is this? Lousy-as-shit-software manufacturer Intuit is so shocked by Mint’s success that they sent a letter complaining about. Smooth, guys. I honestly can’t believe they did this. How bad does this make you look? I’ll answer for you Intuit: terrible.
Boxee Asked to Drop Hulu Support Tomorrow →
This SUCKS.
Flux matches your computers lighting to the time... →
This is a cool app, although the OSX version could use a little fixing up. I know a lot of people who would be saved by this.
“The men I’ve sent to death weigh heavily on my mind; but this burden is but a...”
– Яolcats
Clarizen: Project Management for Non-Project... →
New PM software for your asses. I know there are already a hundred, but c’mon… new!!
WatchSony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source This motherfucking time vampire.
Designing a JavaScript client for a REST API →
Cool article for the programmatic architect in all of us (all of us coders, not you normies).
Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts →
listening to "Peace Like a River - Paul Simon" →
Definitely in this kind of mood today. This song more than any other makes me think of New York City.
This week in video: Facebook and the OpenID Design... →
Facebook is rocking OpenID and my world.
WatchMozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Bespin
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify... →
This is really important for you SEO people out there.
5 Companies Building the "Internet of Things" →
I love this stuff. Maybe one day when I’m rich I can play round with it and actually make something neat.
Is the Relational Database Doomed? →
I love R/WW, they occasionally have these round-up articles describing the state of things. This is a good one for people new to the non-relational database world.
390 Designing Web Interface Screencasts →
r/Wow/Woah/g
Ragdoll Metaphysics: Good Grief, The Victory Of... →
WoW pales in comparison to Eve Online’s operations.
Wordpress Lifestream Plugin Creator Announces... →
Wordpress lifestream plugins are the way to go. You use a very well-known and well-understood content platform and you build off of it intelligently. You also own your own content!
O'Reilly Labs: RDF For All of Our Books, Plus... →
Holy smokes thats a lot of RDF.
Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New... →
Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog... →
Embedr: Embed Videos from Multiple Services in a... →
I love this. I can think of at least two projects that need this right now.
Aviary Encroaches On Adobe Illustrator With Raven,... →
Congrats to the Aviary team. Lots of people and companies talk about building serious apps in Flex, but you guys take the taco.
AIG Implodes: The Two Cows Version →
This will surprisingly explain some really complicated financial stuff for those interested in the economy.
A Life Well Wasted →
A great new video game podcast brilliantly described by Critical Gaming’s Richard Terrell (KirbyKid) as the “This American Life” of video games.
Thanks tinycartridge
This song is by YMCK for...
Understanding Web Operations Culture - the Graph &... →
Really interesting correlations of data, the world and the web.
Gmail Adds Support For Multi-Pane Viewing →
Oh hell yes.
“UA Profiler is a community-driven project started by Steve Sourders of Google...”
– UA Profiler
Speeding up your JavaScript: Part 3 and 4 →
: )
Webmaster Guidelines - Webmasters/Site owners Help →
Whens the last time you read this?
Recreating the button | stopdesign →
One day I am going to steal Google’s complicated-ass buttons-that-aren’t-buttons.
WatchMy Qik account is now my repository of videos for my awesome cat RubyJean.
SocialWhois: Whois Lookups for the Social Web -... →
I like this site. I was able to login and build on what the spider already knew about me by creating a profile associated with my FriendFeed account. I didn’t even have to make a login. It also does a pretty bang up job just searching for somebody. I would link to a random search of someone I know, but you can’t do that yet. Go to the homepage and do a search for somebody, its actually...
Google Enters Mobile Social Networking with... →
This is great, Google. Seriously, though, people will think your company is Big Brother. Which, I suppose, it kind of is. I’ve been noticing the “evil Google” coming into play more and more over the past 18 months or so and I think it might be time for me to start looking at other options. What’s most important to remember, though, is that if you don’t want Google to...
I'm learning Ruby on Rails: Day 1 part 2 of 2
Well I just finished some basic RoR routing and MVC work. I haven’t had too much time to play with ActiveRecord or anything that fun, because I’m coming down with a bit of a cold.
I will say, however, that I’m already starting to see the benefits in automated tools like Capistrano. When you code rails, your project needs to be recompiled every time you make an update. You can...
I'm learning Ruby on Rails: Day 1 part 1 of 2
I’m out hunting around for a new job and in my down time I decided to learn something new skills. Last night I signed up for a slicehost vps. At $20 for a small, but capable slice, I find its the best deal for a developer (they aren’t a domain registrar, though, d’oh). I needed a more robust webhost and I wanted to learn something new.
I’ve already tackled a Drupal...
iamelgringo: Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone →
Of the top 20 Alexa sites only 3 don’t use tables. Why? Because tables are compatible. And why do they use inline CSS? Because its faster than waiting for CSS HTTP Requests.
An SSH/Firewall tip for you sysadmins.
When SSHing, don’t make any changes to the current firewall script. Make a copy of it. Make your changes to the copy, and don’t rename the copy to whatever the current script is called. When you are ready for a test of the altered script:
Atart a second SSH session and issue a shutdown -r 5
Run the new script
This should give you enough time to see if the new script works. If...
AdventureDrop’s Beta Version Not Very Adventurous →
Check out this next-level travel site. It’s essentially a mashed up travel wiki for original or creative destinations, but I love the design and the community focus.
WatchJohn Resig: “The DOM Is a Mess” on Yahoo! Video as well as the presentation slides.
Mashery: Untold Secrets Behind Managing an API →
Nice post on managing your API. WHICH WE ALL NEED TO DO.