June 2007
63 posts
“someday anti-trust laws will mean something again. mark my words”
– godzukitron
Emiller's Balls-Out Guide to Nginx Module... →
how to build a nginx module
coding for the nintendo ds →
a rather long tutorial on building homebrew for the DS
Git/publishing - U32 →
wiki entry on publishing using git
RailsWatcher - ubuntu feisty deployment server →
setting up feisty server for rails deploy
Creating Ideas
Name something that sucks, name 5 reasons why. Then invert for ideas. (Scott Berkun at etech 2007)
Simple Spark →
there are way too many webapps out there - this helps find them
Ken's Favorite Silicon Valley Hikes →
Hiking is a popular sport in Silicon Valley (a.k.a. Santa Clara County, California). Because of the generally sunny, mild climate, you can hike here year round. You need only a minimal amount of equipment and no special training.
“CNames are for closers”
– Al3x responding to Ian about amazon’s s3 at SHDH
“Think about it. Job holders by definition aren’t capitalists. Job holders,...”
– Paul Buchheit: Quick: Job culture
Re: Is this an acceptable workflow in git svn or... →
never git-push a branch to your public git repo without first a git-svn dcommit … as git-svn dcommit changes history.
“After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community,...”
– Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development
Charles : Web Debugging Proxy | HTTP Monitor |... →
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers
“If I had time I could be so much cooler… ”
– Jeff Lindsay talking about RDF
Live Blogging with Amazon S3 →
hosting a live blog on the cheap — a baked website + s3 - if s3 allowed a null key (empty string), you could host your entire baked site on it
Kill the Meeting: Process as a Substitute for... →
With enough steps, documents, design reviews, and test plans, I think that the proverbial 1,000 monkeys with typewriters really could produce a functional IT system.
'(Lisp Notes (OS X Intel)) →
Boodler: a programmable soundscape tool →
“Boodler is a tool for creating soundscapes — continuous, infinitely varying streams of sound. Boodler is designed to run in the background on a computer, maintaining whatever sound environment you desire.” - I like the thunderstorm
book buying bender
“Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” Martin Fowler “Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art” Steve McConnell “Software Requirements, Second Edition” Karl E. Wiegers “Practical Common Lisp” Peter Seibel “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams” Tom DeMarco “ANSI Common LISP” Paul Graham “The...
WatchTED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo (video)
“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“I’ve been known to complain about the number of newfangled source control...”
– SOURCE CONTROL INSANITY
“The system clock seed gave us an idea that reduced the number of possible...”
– How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security [Cigital]
Outsourcing Your Life - WSJ.com →
Sending work offshore has transformed the U.S. economy. Now, some families are tapping the same approach for personal tasks, getting them done for a fraction of what they’d cost at home. Taking your to-do list global.