Will Olbrys and His Ego

Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:07:03 -0500

Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool

Vagrant - Getting Started on Vimeo This is a compact feature...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:44:00 -0500

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 continue using your own editor
Package environments into distributable boxes
Completely tear down environment when you’re done
Easily rebuild a complete environment with a single command

Building An Active RFID People / Asset Tracking System With Mesh Networking - Nicholas Skinner’s Blog

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:48:11 -0500

Building An Active RFID People / Asset Tracking System With Mesh Networking - Nicholas Skinner’s Blog

Three Beautiful Quicksorts (via GoogleTechTalks)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:03:56 -0500

Three Beautiful Quicksorts (via GoogleTechTalks)

Faye: Bayeaux protocol Comet server for Node.js

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:22:36 -0500

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

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:22:35 -0500

Never Mind the Valley: Here's New York City:

Represent!

listening to "Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Memory Lane (LIVE)"

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:02:05 -0500

listening to "Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Memory Lane (LIVE)":

favorite trans-tasman bands: the clean, the go-betweens, and now the fantastic eddy current suppression ring.

Coding Horror: Get Your Database Under Version Control

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:35:31 -0500

Coding Horror: Get Your Database Under Version Control

Email as Identity: Google Turns on WebFinger

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:16:54 -0500

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 avatar, or - if you choose so - a declaration that this address doesn’t have any metadata associated with it. The WebFinger metadata can also point to an alternative identity provider, which can be an OpenID server.

listening to "Charlotte Gainsbourg -Vanities"

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:09:59 -0500

listening to "Charlotte Gainsbourg -Vanities":

Charlotte Gainsbourg produced by Beck. Sounds pretty sweet.

E-mails from an Asshole: Disguised Weapons “At first...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:12:51 -0500

E-mails from an Asshole: Disguised Weapons

“At first glance, this looks like a normal party cup. However, if you look close enough, you will see that it is really a fully automatic Glock 18C. You will be able to pour your enemies a nice warm cup of lead with this fine purchase.”

listening to "Moonface - Marimba and Shit-Drums"

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:42:17 -0500

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 a Fire - Eric Florenzano’s Blog

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:18:50 -0500

How do we kick our synchronous addiction? - Die in a Fire - Eric Florenzano’s Blog

Flickr Developer Blog » Using, Abusing and Scaling MySQL at Flickr

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:38:44 -0500

Flickr Developer Blog » Using, Abusing and Scaling MySQL at Flickr:

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 “IE6,” but otherwise..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:30:15 -0500

“We’re doing exactly the same as ten years ago. We now say “iPhone” instead of “IE6,” but otherwise nothing’s changed.”

- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession

AccuWeather.com Snowpocalypse Now! Are you familiar with Jim...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:01:53 -0500

AccuWeather.com Snowpocalypse Now!

Are you familiar with Jim Kosek? He’s a meterologist on AccuWeather.com and he loves the weather. A friend of mine had shown me some of his forecasts a little while ago and I haven’t been able to stop watching since. I will watch weather reports for cities I do not care about for this man.

Freelance programmers, how do you organize your time to cope with many projects at the same time, and still have a life?

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:05:29 -0500

Freelance programmers, how do you organize your time to cope with many projects at the same time, and still have a life?

Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:50:37 -0500

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 is where we gain in performance. Whenever possible our generated code uses static binding for functions and variables. We also use type inference to pick the most specific type possible for our variables and thus save memory.

The transformation process includes three main steps:

Static analysis where we collect information on who declares what and dependencies,
Type inference where we choose the most specific type between C++ scalars, String, Array, classes, Object, and Variant, and
Code generation which for the most part is a direct correspondence from PHP statements and expressions to C++ statements and expressions.

Discount — a C implementation of the Markdown markup language

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:28:04 -0500

Discount — a C implementation of the Markdown markup language:

Rendering Markdown faster is always awesome.

Comet with node.js and V8 - amix.dk

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:40:58 -0500

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.