June 2008
94 posts
Bill Clementson's Blog: The Most Important Idea in... →
“So the problem is-I’ve said this about both Smalltalk and Lisp-they tend to eat their young. “
Tux Training » Blog Archive » Beating Sandvine on... →
Use ipTables to forcibly ignore TCP resets on the bittorent protocol port. Clever ;)
How WSGI Works // Werkzeug →
FBI Charges Blind Phone Phreak With Intimidating a... →
Twin Sunset: This Word, "Scaling" →
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. â Inigo Montoya
Re: Why Nerds are Unpopular →
… it may be because American school systems are decentralized. They’re controlled by the local school board, which consists of car dealers who were high school football players, instead of some…
Revising HIV's History -- Pennisi 2008 (625): 1 --... →
[HIV] infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to findings presented here this week at the Evolution 2008 meeting.
Pluribo: Instant Summaries :: Firefox Add-ons →
Using cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Pluribo scans all of the reviews on any Amazon webpage and summarizes them into a single paragraph. Instead of spending your time reading through endless…
Seumas Milne: Bush is trying to impose a classic... →
US efforts to force Iraqis to swallow permanent vassal status and give up control of their oil echoes British imperial history
Extreme regex foo: what you need to know to become... →
MemeStreams | My programming rules 2.2 →
14. No-one cares if you read Wikipedia all day every day if you get your work done on time…
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of... →
âThis was a Steampunk version of hypertext,â said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.
Useless Factor: A couple GC algorithms in more... →
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fossil fills out... →
Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution. The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water.
Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and... →
Cappuccino and Objective-J take an entirely different approach. “Since Cappuccino runs entirely on the client, at run time, we’re never actually generating HTML or CSS,” says Boucher.
Open Questions for The App Store - Inside iPhone... →
By making the App Store the exclusive method for widespread distribution of software, Apple is controlling the means through which software is obtained on the iPhone.
PIBlog » Blog Archive » Building a Python Web... →
One of the coolest things about WSGI is the fact that you now donât have to decide on a specific web server before you start coding.
Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks →
Ajaxian » Audible Ajax Episode 27: SproutCore with... →
Ajaxian » Coherent: Cocoa Databinding for Ajax →
Jeff Watkins is a fan of the Cocoa data binding model, and wanted to bring it to the Web. This lead him to create a projects three years ago, which comes out of the dark now: Coherent.
Carsonified » Blog Archive » Why Objective-J,... →
Objective-J is a clone of Objective-C, the language behind OSX desktop apps. It was created by the guys at 280North who recently launched 280Slides (a browser-based version of Appleâs Keynote).
InfoQ: AJAX developers continue migrating to... →
Unobtrusive JavaScript is an emerging technique that separates JavaScript from HTML markup. This is quite similar to the separation between styling and HTML that came about with the creation of CSS…
Available Options in Oracle →
Useful page about weird little oracle features including how to query oracle for it’s installed options.
Summation: The Art of the Job Offer: Encourage... →
Most people go about giving a job offer in the wrong way. They try to sell the candidate and win them over. Thereâs a better strategy.
Ajaxian » Apple, SproutCore, and Coherent →
Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent |... →
In the 1960s, Lawrence Roberts invented [technology] which led directly to the development of ARPANet and the Internet . And now Roberts is trying to fix one of the Internet’s biggest problems:…
Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has... →
OnStar will soon include the ability for the police to shut off your engine remotely.
CanadaIT.com - Company News →
A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over
How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days |... →
Spolsky on working with Bill Gates.
General Anesthesia: Sleep During Surgery, Wake Up... →
Researchers studying the effects of general anesthesia recently made a startling discovery: the drugs used to knock out patients during surgery may lead to increased pain when they wake up.
How Ritalin Works In Brain To Boost Cognition,... →
Women With Long Finger Nails Complaining That... →
women who believe the iPhone is unfairly designed to be completely unusable by those of the fairer sex with long fingernails.
Programmatic Grid | The Dojo Toolkit →
Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote's Untold Past,... →
“Senior Director of Consumer Engineering Paul Newby, father of the TiVo remote” on his baby, which is such a great example of good product design (my mom figured it out w/ no trouble and she has…
ZSFA -- The Big Ruby Vulnerabilities →
Wanna know what all the Ruby vulnerabilities are? Or at least have a fun look at how to search through code for clues? Itâs a blast.
Bring It On - Campaign Stops - 2008 Elections -... →
some people remain under the illusion that Mr. Obama is soft. (Apparently they missed the part where, two years into his first term in the Senate, he ran for president against the most powerful…
BBC - Beag air Bheag - Flash →
The BBC’s Scots Gaelic learning site.
Tales of an IT Director: I'm a "light bulb" kinda... →
Programmers learn as much about the business as they have to in order to do their job effectively. Can you say the same thing about the business folks? Do they learn as much about computers as they…
Yahoo resignation letter generator softens landing... →
In a MadLibs-style web form with simple multiple-choice drop-down menus, the DIY Yahoo Resignation Letter makes it so much easier to let your managers know that you’ve decided to blow the Sunnyvale…
Blackstone Audio phases out audiobook DRM - Boing... →
Blackstone now joins with Random House Audio (the audio division of the world’s largest publisher, Bertelsmann) in rejecting DRM for its audiobooks and I’ve heard off-the-record accounts of other…
NOOP.NL: Managing Software Development: The... →
A Perfect Job Interview Question is one single question that leads to a perfect assessment of a candidate for a job.
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Version Control Makes You... →
… version control isnât just about versioning any more. Itâs a whole methodology/ideology that makes better programmers.
Wall Street Turns to Video Game Tech |... →
Calculating financial data with Graphics Cards… The GPU has the capability to solve the second computational issue. Before GPU technology came out, in order to solve this problem in real time, you…
Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP's Fleet of No-Show... →
From a recent issue of Wired {looks like April}. Dug back up due to a friend telling me about Zaps new deal with Lotus.
ORM - PITA? - Webquills.net →
ORM buys you a big gain in productivity, because the software reduces database access patterns from a dozen lines of code to just one or two. If you need to get a small project up and running fast,…
Firefox-Mac-PDF allows in-line PDFs for Firefox →
Firefox-Mac-PDF allows for the same in-line PDF viewing that can be found in Safari. This plug-in requires Firefox 3 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher. You can download the plug-in for free from…
Perl's CPAN Continues to Offer High-Quality... →
Indeed, looking at the CPAN site is a great way to realize that Perl is far from dead. Looking at the “recent updates” page on CPAN shows that each day over the last week, there were more than 30…
JJinuxLand: Modern Java From a Python Perspective →
I had a friend visit me today. He’s a Java programmer, but he also knows enough Python, Ruby, JavaScript and Scheme to be dangerous. I asked him to show me around his code so I could see some modern…
Too tattooed to work? - CNN.com →
Interesting article; I have a large piece on my left forearm that I’ve worn openly since getting it earlier this year. I covered it up for interviews but first day of work showed up with it visible….
Obama opts out of public financing system -... →
“It’s not an easy decision, and because I support a robust system of public financing of elections,” he wrote. “But the public financing of elections as it exists today is broken, and we face…