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.