Jonathan Altman

TL;DR & Rationale

Using waypoint on your local machine via minikube is not that hard, but there are a few extra steps if:

• You don't want to use their public service to publish URLs to your service
• You want to use minikube (this may be an issue with kind too) and make sure container images are available. The Hashicorp docs are written assuming kind. I have not actually tested it out so I do not know if the things I had to do…

TL;DR

It is possible without having a heavier-weight container engine like docker or kubernetes installed and without using Dockerfiles to create container images that will run as a container from the command line and from scratch.

There is value in…

... with a little bit of cargo cult possibly rolled in.  Anywhere, here's the stuff I put into a VagrantFile (for Vagrant v2.x) to get boxes to be named properly both for hostname and for the name that appears in the Virtualbox GUI:

Replace __YOUR_BOX_NAME_HERE__ with whatever you want to name the box. Also note that the stuff inside config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|…

I ran across this today while trying to use the chef community database cookbook.  If you want to use it along with a postgresql database to e.g. create databases and create and assign roles to users, then you may need to do the following, at least…

I forgot to document this after the 1st Vagrant-based development VM I set up, so I'll do it now so I do not lose it again.

Virtualbox disables symbolic links on host folders shared into the guest as of 4.1.8

Just stop. and. enjoy. that. for. a…

I am doing a bunch of work in VMs managed with Vagrant+chef, and I have several different VMs configured for different projects/roles so that I can do dev work on a VM that has just the set of things on it that a QA or production box will have.  To…

Ran across this today, and didn't find anything while googling for it so figured I would capture it for posterity and in case it happens to me again.

I went to update Android SDK to the latest version today and it was not appearing after pulling down…

I am one of the panelists for devFestDC today, on the mobile apps panel at 11am.  There's a good chance, though, if you're reading this that you may have arrived here based on that fact.  I'm just now dusting this blog back off, but in the meantime…

• JLOUIS Ramblings: Node.js vs Erlang is the wrong battle.

  • Posted: Fri May 06 15:50:35 UTC 2011

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• MongoVUE | Gui tools for MongoDB

  • Posted: Wed Mar 16 23:35:57 UTC 2011

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• Banana Bread Recipe | Simply Recipes

  • Posted: Wed Nov 24 17:11:35 UTC 2010

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• WebSequenceDiagrams.com - Draw and Edit Sequence Diagrams in seconds

  • Posted: Fri Nov 19 16:22:15 UTC 2010

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• JIRA Toolkit Plugin - JIRA Toolkit Plugin - Confluence

  • Bunch of interesting custom fields/search params for jira
  • Posted: Tue Oct 26 23:57:10 UTC 2010

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• Design Principles Behind Smalltalk

  • Absolutely fascinating article from Byte on the design principles behind Smalltalk-80
  • Posted: Tue Oct 05 06:11:22 UTC 2010

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• xkcd: Estimation

  • I keep referring to this cartoon about the Windows file copy dialog box's time remaining calculation algorithm. This will maybe make it easier to pull up in the future.
  • Posted: Mon Sep 20 15:49:52 UTC 2010

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The very nice keyboard I have been using at work for the last several years is starting to get pretty badly beaten down (I am hard on keyboards). So last night I went over to the Apple store and bought another of their very nice aluminum USB…

• Coding Horror: Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing

  • This posting deals largely with 37 Signals' concept of having opinionated software, but from the opposite end. "Phil wasn't making these choices because he honestly believed in them…

• .CSV » new developments in AI

  • Posted: Fri Jul 16 16:23:06 UTC 2010

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• clementine-player - Project Hosting on Google Code

  • Port of Amarok 1.4 to qt4/not-kde. Sounds very interesting especially since Songbird just killed official linux support.
  • Posted: Thu Jul 15 20:04:11 UTC 2010

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• William's miscellaneous git tools

  • A bunch of useful git scripts for working with git repos
  • Posted: Mon Jul 12 15:17:31 UTC 2010

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• Run Kindle for PC in Linux with WINE

  • Posted: Wed Jul 07 20:14:39 UTC 2010

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• Postel’s Law vs the Whiteboard Marker Rule « Messages in a Bottle

  • Interesting take on versioning, backwards compatability, and Postel's Law (roughly: "be conservative in what you produce and liberal in what you accept"). Sometimes, this post…

Posting this here so I can throw out the slip of paper the doctor wrote it on. * 1 quart water * 2 tsp salt * 1/2 tsp baking soda

• Auto rip audio CDs in Ubuntu Server | SudoCode

  • Posted: Mon Jun 21 04:18:32 UTC 2010

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• Apple Rejects Kid-Friendly Programming App | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

  • There is no other reasonable description I can think of for the situation with Scratch other than as being caught in the cross-fire. However, I do not look forward to a world…

• tecosystems » Watch the Professionals

  • money quote, put nicer than I usually put it (minus the colorful language): "But if you want a no-bullshit take on which technologies actually deliver, you could do a lot worse than watching what the professionals use. It’s what we do."
  • Posted…

• "Sapient Testing: The "Professionalism meme.

  • Snippet: "A good tester uses the behavior of the system and the descriptions in the requirements, (and face-to-face interaction with the authors of both) to understand the motivation behind the system…

• Erlware - Erlang is better with OTP: Git Basics

  • More workflow examples for the git files
  • Posted: Sun Mar 28 04:17:17 UTC 2010

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• SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - The Bomb for Beginners: A DIY Guide to Going Nuclear - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

  • "Building a nuclear weapon has never been easier. NATO's Michael Rühle provides step-by-step instructions for going…

• nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git branching model

  • Posted: Sat Mar 06 06:23:01 UTC 2010

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• High Scalability - High Scalability - Twitter’s Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets

  • High Scalability post on twitter's use of Hadoop, Pig, and Protocol Buffers to build an analysis and metrics system for their tweets. Their use of Protocol Buffers' IDL as a metadata source to drive Hadoop population is very interesting
  • …

• The Ruby Toolbox: Know your options!

  • Ruby developers can choose from a variety of tools to get their job done. The Ruby Toolbox gives you an overview of these tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the…

• MF Bliki: ConversationalStories

  • "In terms of coming up with stories, what this means is that they are always something to be refined through conversation - and that developers should play an active role in helping that definition. -spotting…

• Mobile Application Part - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • "The Mobile Application Part (MAP) is an SS7 protocol which provides an application layer for the various nodes in GSM and UMTS mobile core networks and GPRS core networks to communicate…

• Semantic Versioning

  • Interesting versioning scheme for software/service releases that discusses one way to handle version number changes. For me, it codifies and regiments version numbering systems I have seen used on lots of different projects.
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• In praise of git’s index // plasmasturm.org

  • More interesting information about how someone uses the features specific to git as a dvcs (the index). Different take on what the index represents, and how to use it to stage multiple feature commits…

• Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq

  • Posted: Mon Jan 18 17:23:46 UTC 2010

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• geuis's helium-css at master - GitHub

  • Interesting tool to do "code coverage" of css stylesheets. Will find any unused css selectors on a set of pages
  • Posted: Mon Jan 18 03:20:12 UTC 2010

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• ongoing · Doing It Wrong

  • Tim Bray says: "What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML…

• Saying "NO".

  • "The difference between a laborer and a professional is that a laborer takes orders from his boss, and a professional provides input to his superiors. Laborers are hired to take direction. Professionals are hired to ensure that the…

• Coding Horror: Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway

  • Nothing new here, but a very succinct discussion of what it takes to put out software, especially in the internet age. Probably not if you're writing, say, systems that could hurt people or things if they fail, but....
  • Posted: Sat…

• Mockingbird

  • Wireframes on the fly. Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
  • Posted: Mon Nov 09 23:48:54 UTC 2009

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• Dr. Dobb's | Using Erlang to Build Reliable, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Systems | October 12, 2009

  • Notes from Yahoo engineers on building their Harvester, which backends feed updating internally for services like delicious
  • Posted: Tue Oct 13 16:08:24 UTC 2009
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• TDD Triage

  • Really interesting article on practical application of TDD to writing software.
  • Posted: Thu Oct 08 19:54:10 UTC 2009

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• Persistent Data Structures and Managed References

  • Posted: Sun Oct 04 15:19:48 UTC 2009

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• JJinuxLand: JavaScript: jQuery Event Handling in FriendFeed

  • While it is jQuery specific, this seems like a very interesting approach to reducing footprint/speeding up interactivity loading in javascript for dhtml
  • Posted: Sun Sep 27 20:07:36 UTC 2009
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• The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

  • Open source, fast, non-blocking webserver written in python. In addition, "Tornado comes with built-in support for a lot of the most difficult and tedious aspects of web…

• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Building Scalable Databases: Denormalization, the NoSQL Movement and Digg

  • Really good coverage of the issues you run into with relational database stores at {size, transaction volume} scale and what some of the implications for a relational schema or using a non-relational alternative
  • Posted: Fri Sep 11 03:02:10 UTC 2009
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• Wondermark » Archive » #541; In which I thought of it First

  • I am guessing this is a nearly universal occurrence for everybody
  • Posted: Wed Sep 09 01:27:11 UTC 2009

• File: SIGNALS [Unicorn: Rack HTTP server for Unix and fast clients]

  • This is the…

• Blocks, from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica

  • "In Snow Leopard, Apple has introduced a C language extension called "blocks." Blocks add closures and anonymous functions to C and the C-derived languages C…

• How Google Serves Data from Multiple Datacenters | High Scalability

  • Someone's gloss on a talk a Google engineer gave at the Google I/O conference on multi-homing applications across multiple datacenters.
  • Posted: Tue Sep 01 01:58:44 UTC 2009

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• iui - Project Hosting on Google Code

  • iui is a javascript/css/html framework for building mobile-optimized websites
  • Posted: Wed Aug 05 03:32:42 UTC 2009

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• Color Scheme Designer 3

  • Keep running across this or something like it. Very useful for generating some base color scheme defaults
  • Posted: Thu Jul 23 19:50:03 UTC 2009

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• MF Bliki: RequestStreamMap

  • Fowler discusses a concept he's calling a Request Stream Map (based on a co-worker's work). Interesting idea for how to break down what the pieces are, and the flow of, handling a request into a system. Really…

• Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong!

  • Interesting musings on getting crypto right in code used by others, especially at large scale or open access. Writing style gets a bit tedious, but....
  • Posted: Fri Jun 26 14:16:34 UTC 2009
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• Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part I: Overview

  • Good basic understanding/getting started guide to OAuth for a potential implementor of an OAuth service provider
  • Posted: Tue Jun 02 02:26:06 UTC 2009

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• The Socratic Method

  • Could very well be apocryphal, but if nothing else it's a really good story, and fodder for explaining alternate-base math later.
  • Posted: Mon Jun 01 02:28:23 UTC 2009

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• Adding Simplicity - An Engineering Mantra: Shard Lessons

  • Worth reading just for the section on intelligently designing shard counts. Great discussion on picking counts that smooth your cost step function
  • Posted: Fri May 29 20:36:03 UTC 2009

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• Extending RESTful services with a custom Request Interceptor - Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

  • Explanation of ways to intercept a RESTful WCF request or response to add functionality. May be a good way to do things like SOAP/WSSE/ebXml wrap/unwrap
  • Posted: Tue May 19 18:31:07 UTC 2009
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• How to get VMWare 6.5 workstation working again after Ubuntu upgrade

  • Upgraded Intrepid->Jaunty today, and needed to follow the recipe in this forum post to get vmWare working again. I'm sure this is obvious to lots of people, but it was useful to me to find this nice short recipe.
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• Interactive Brokers - Direct Access Online Trading, Stock, Options, Futures, Forex, Funds

  • Posted: Wed Apr 29 03:31:48 UTC 2009

• The Complete Flake’s Guide to Getting Things Done | Remarkable Communication

  • Are you smart and motivated and passionate, and have lots of cool things you’d like to get done, but somehow when it comes to doing them, you just . . . don’t?
  • Posted: Tue Apr 28 22:32:47 UTC 2009
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• Managed Extensibility Framework - Home

  • .Net framework for easily handling extensibility via plugins.
  • Posted: Thu Apr 23 21:06:41 UTC 2009

• Atlassian Developer Blog - Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes

  • With a few simple steps, anyone can use Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to get JIRA and Confluence up and running for their team in a matter of minutes
  • Posted: Thu Apr 23 16:13:29 UTC 2009
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• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework

  • An open source development tool for building iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other mobile apps with JavaScript.
  • Posted: Wed Apr 15 17:55:28 UTC 2009

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• webmachine: A REST-based system for building web applications.

  • Posted: Fri Mar 20 23:24:08 UTC 2009

• AribaWeb - More App, Way Less Code!

  • Posted: Fri Mar 20 23:11:17 UTC 2009

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• Ted's Transportation, SLC

  • Posted: Tue Feb 24 23:36:54 UTC 2009

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• Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

  • Interesting article on how to go about preparing for sharding before you have the volume that requires sharding. So you can shard when you need to, but don't pay the overhead if your app never reaches the point of needing to scale.
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Summary

I did not think I would actually make today one of the 100 days, but I pushed through. I guess the incentive of challenging myself is working ;-)

Accomplishments

• Finished debugging the last part of adding the second controlled list admin table. Add and remove working
• Added the third and final admin table
• Committed
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Summary

After having to make the day I thought up the idea be my Prologue, January 29 turned out to be fairly easy to make 100 lines of code. Not every day will be this easy, I bet. I also know that I opted for get things done over polish things to…

So I decided to start blogging my experience the day after I started actually doing the 100x100 challenge. Therefore, I get the benefit of hindsight, especially since I ended up well short of the mark. However, I would have to say the prologue was…

So I am going to set myself out a hopefully fun little challenge: 100 lines of code in 100 coding days. It's my challenge (and if this catches on, my meme ;-)), so I get to define my groundrules. Of course, someone else who wants to quibble with…

• BeagleBoard.org - default

  • Open source single board computer (SBC) with an ARM processor running linux. HDMI out, can be powered from USB, has an SD/MMC slot, and a bunch of other features.
  • Posted: Tue Jan 27 05:14:24 UTC 2009

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• Private and guest (no password prompt) Samba shares with security=user | WaltCo Tech

  • Link on how to set up public read/write smb shares in linux for windows clients (any, actually, but windows is what I needed)
  • Posted: Fri Jan 23 17:04:38 UTC 2009
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• Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores | Richard Jones, Esq.

  • One of the Last.fm founders does a survey of available open-source non-relational data stores. Lots of engines covered here.
  • Posted: Wed Jan 21 04:12:46 UTC 2009

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• Listen

  • Posted: Fri Jan 09 03:22:33 UTC 2009

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• Audiomagus - high end not high priced audio products

  • Interesting audio products store
  • Posted: Thu Jan 08 06:13:39 UTC 2009

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• A web-focused Git workflow

  • Interesting take on using git as a way to push updates to a production website. Interesting take on how you might use git instead of e.g. rsync, capistrano, or a purpose-built installer to keep a farm in sync
  • Posted: Sat Dec 27 05:08:25 UTC 2008
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• Recipes: Monkey Bread Recipe (Breakfast, Brunch) - and More Great Family Fun Recipe Ideas

  • Posted: Tue Dec 16 03:16:03 UTC 2008

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• Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots « counternotions

  • Interesting article about how Google is just playing a different game than the rest of us.
  • Posted: Tue Dec 09 20:49:56 UTC 2008

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• Suspend Mark-To-Market Now! - Forbes.com

  • Op-ed piece in Forbes by Newt Gingrich on mark-to-market
  • Posted: Mon Dec 01 02:31:48 UTC 2008

• FT.com / Home UK / UK - True impact of mark-to-market accounting in the credit crisis

  • Some coverage on how mark-to-market makes bubbles worse
  • Posted: Mon Dec 01 02:28:56 UTC 2008
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• Give Up and Use Tables

  • If you're wasting time fighting with CSS -- and we know you are -- we've got just the tool you need. Download the Give Up and Use Tables timer. We've scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need…

• The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Print - Portfolio.com

  • "By the spring of 2005, FrontPoint was fairly convinced that something was very screwed up not merely in a handful of companies but in the financial underpinnings of…

• How To Quickly Set Up Ubuntu 8.04 loaded with Erlang, Mochiweb and Nginx | BeeBuzz

  • Posted: Wed Nov 12 05:52:47 UTC 2008

• Tenerife Skunkworks: The OpenPoker scalability challenge

  • The OpenPoker scalability challenge I spent the past few weeks…

• SuperfolderK28: 15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

  • There are a bunch of tools in here that look interesting, such as cuzillion, plus a bunch of load and stress testing tools
  • Posted: Sun Nov 09 04:21:02 UTC 2008

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• Cherryleaf Technical Authors' Blog: Technical Documentation: How it really gets written

  • Guilty as charged: "8. As the engineer berates you, in between insults he will also throw off nuggets of technical information. 9. Collect these nuggets, as they are the only reliable technical information you will receive. "
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• Ned Batchelder: The first servers

  • The bit about optimizing area codes is fascinating. But here's a quote about how phone switches predate web server farms: "It's fascinating to realize that the work we do every day with web servers, which seems…

• Praça São Lourenço

  • Very nice restaurant in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
  • Posted: Mon Oct 27 04:08:35 UTC 2008

• The 10 Signs of Intellectual Honesty | The Design Matrix

  • "What you need to look for is a track record of intellectual honesty. Let me therefore…

• Nanite: Self Assembling Cluster of Ruby Daemons

  • Via Stefan Tilkov: A Nanite installation is based around a "mapper exchange" with which Ruby daemons (called Nanite "agents") register. Nanite mappers (running in, say, Rails or Merb applications…

• Fun With Automated Characterization Test Generation

  • 4th in a 4-part series
  • Posted: Mon Oct 13 20:17:29 UTC 2008

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• Axiom Stack - About

  • Quick Axiom Stack Facts * All scripting is done in server side ECMAscript (JavaScript) * Axiom Stack provides a unified object model to all content data * Built-in storage behaves like a transparent, hierarchical…

He's said it before in many different ways, but I finally found a bunch of statements in a single posting of his that summarizes his what I think is very correct thinking about terrorism prevention:

The problem with building security around specific targets and tactics is that its only effective if we happen to guess the plot correctly. If we spend billions defending [target type A] and terrorists bomb [target type B]…

So I disagree with the way the argument in this post is framed, but I am glad to see the "mainstream" tech press realizing there's a better way to get to SOA:

A growing number of companies are finding that lower-visibility Web-oriented architecture…

• Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

  • Presentation on using XMPP for high volume update pubsub instead of Atom polling
  • Posted: Fri Jul 25 02:57:18 UTC 2008

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So ordinarily, this post would have gone up as a link in del.icio.us, but the interesting part of it is actually a single quote that flows in the article but is not the main point. So I will just crib the interesting part here. It is worth reading…

• "What does the word "Quality mean?

  • it has few known defects in its current state, we have high confidence that we will not discover defects in its current state over time, [and] we will not create further defects...as we add to or alter its functionality in the normal course....
  • …

Paul Graham first wrote about a strawman hypothetical programming language blub that examined the constraints that people who choose to stay firmly embedded in only one language seem to impose upon themselves and their programming capabilities and…

• The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.

  • Actually it's advertised as "No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. No Images. No JavaScript. Cross-browser & iPhone compatible."
  • Posted: Fri Jun 20 04:01:06 UTC 2008

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• Heroku

  • Rails-based competition for Google Apps. Ruby, Rails, EC2 hosting, and an environment to make it easy to build/update/manage apps
  • Posted: Thu Jun 05 00:25:34 UTC 2008

• Prototip 2 - Create beautiful tooltips with ease

  • Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework.
  • Posted: Thu Jun 05 00:25:34 UTC 2008
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• Howto use Git and svn together | Flavio Castelli

  • This is a really small howto that describes how to work on a project versioned with svn... using git.
  • Posted: Fri May 30 04:26:33 UTC 2008

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• Simple Living Manifesto: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life | Zen Habits

  • It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value.
  • Posted: Wed May 28 01:59:05 UTC 2008
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• Healthcare Is A Hash Mistress | OSS Ramblings

  • This is the approach of my current employer to our major trade shows, and it is amazing how much of a difference it makes in how we are received by the attendees. It seems so simple, and it is so easy to do, but so few people do it.
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• "CodeClimber: "All I need is a Programmer"":http://codeclimber.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-i-need-is-programmer.html

  • In which we learn why separating roles into "business analyst" and "software developer" frequently fails to work as well as one hopes…

• A RESTful web service demo in yaws - Socklabs Blog

  • Article on building a RESTful webservice as a yapp (yaws app) in erlang.
  • Posted: Fri Apr 11 03:47:35 UTC 2008

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• Experimenting with Google App Engine - Bret Taylor's blog

  • Both the coverage of how it's architected, how to use it, and what we're likely to see as alternative implementations of their framework API so it can be used on other platforms is spot on.
  • Posted: Thu Apr 10 03:59:10 UTC 2008
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• What is a Specialist's Skill Set?

  • The person performing the procedure is the most qualified to diagnose the patient and also—mark my words carefully—the person who discusses the options and risks with the patient. This is sometimes the case in programming and sometimes not.
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• The only workable system for generating interesting, cool, and relevant software

  • You cannot have a fresh perspective when you are encumbered by backwards compatibility.
  • Posted: Tue Apr 01 04:50:07 UTC 2008

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• Nightly Tester Tools :: Firefox Add-ons

  • Main reason for this is to turn off extension compatibility testing so you can potentially run your favorite extensions in newer versions before version bump tests get released on them. Of course, you can…

• How to setup easyDNS to work with Google Apps

  • What it says
  • Posted: Mon Mar 24 22:49:09 UTC 2008

• Coding Around the Campfire

  • It's communication that seems to be the essential ingredient of all the different phases and levels and spheres of…

• Beyond Bikes, SD California

  • Posted: Wed Mar 19 17:39:38 UTC 2008

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• Google calendar <=> Outlook sync

  • Posted: Fri Mar 14 16:04:55 UTC 2008

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• Making it stick.: Dynamic Languages: Should the Tools Suck?

  • Pointing out that a lack of good tools for dynamic languages is not necessarily a function of being a tool for dynamic languages
  • Posted: Fri Feb 22 05:29:58 UTC 2008

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• Stevey's Blog Rants: Portrait of a N00b

  • Just...wow.
  • Posted: Tue Feb 19 02:47:22 UTC 2008

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Goaded on by requests for screenshots of Tracks running on my n810 I decided to instead document to the best of my recollection what I did to get Tracks and Instiki running on my n810. h3. Table of Contents h4. 1. "Preface: Why?":#Preface h4.…

• watches88. ORIENT Automatic Multi-function Aviator CEM5Z008B

  • Posted: Sat Jan 26 06:58:54 UTC 2008

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• Manager Tools - Tools for Leaders and Managers

  • Posted: Thu Jan 03 03:30:37 UTC 2008

• XML Schemas: guaranteed non-interoperability as a design methodology? - O'Reilly XML Blog

  • Posted: Thu Jan 03 02:55:16 UTC 2008

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• BBC NEWS | Business | The US sub-prime crisis in graphics

  • Really good coverage from the BBC on the sub-prime situation
  • Posted: Wed Dec 19 20:17:43 UTC 2007

• RubyScript2Exe - A Ruby Compiler

  • collects all necessary files to run your application…

• Appendix C: Installing on a Mac OS X System and Parallels

  • If you are installing on a system and are running the Mac OS X and have installed Parallels version 1970, use the following procedure to install an OpenSolaris OS.
  • Posted: Sun Dec 16 04:19:25 UTC 2007
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• Shahzad Bhatti » Blog Archive » Starting cluster of Erlang nodes on EC2

  • In this blog, I am going to show how to start Erlang nodes on the instances of EC2. I have broken the instructions into two parts, setting up the EC2 instances and starting the Erlang cluster.
  • Posted: Tue Dec 11 02:57:55 UTC 2007
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• easy windows app for self-signing symbian apps

  • Posted: Mon Dec 10 16:30:01 UTC 2007

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Well, after 12 years I have switched (back) to Macs. My first computer was an original 128k Mac, one of the very first ones. My mouse actually had a 5-digit serial number, IIRC. I gave up in 1995 swearing I would never buy another Mac: * I bought a…

• iSEC HILL AttackingXMLSecurity Handout PDF

  • XML DSIG and XML Encryption attack vectors
  • Posted: Fri Nov 09 08:56:34 UTC 2007

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• 100 Resources to Attract, Retain and Utilize Rock Star Programmers - HR World

  • There are plenty of programmers out there, but rock star programmers? They are few and far between. Learn how to locate these gems and keep them happy with the resources below.
  • Posted: Mon Oct 22 01:29:31 UTC 2007
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• How well do you know prototype

  • Update: How well do you know prototype - part II Here I've collected most common use cases that do NOT use all of prototype's capabilities and their simple solutions.I hope this will be a basic checklist to go…

• Coding Horror: Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test?

  • Software developers think their job is writing code. But it's not.* Their job is to solve the customer's problem
  • Posted: Fri Sep 28 06:54:19 UTC 2007

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• Our Kids: Free activities guide for Washington DC kids & parents

  • Posted: Fri Sep 14 03:12:47 UTC 2007

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• Giles Bowkett: Getting Legacy Code Under Test

  • Points to someone else's blog/book, where he discusses a trick on how to get legacy code under test: "Just comment out the bodies of all the methods in the class you are about to test. Then write the tests that force you to uncomment the code."
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• "InfoQ: "Code First Web Services Reconsidered

  • Besides the tight coupling created with SOAP encoding, it also had drawbacks in XML data representation and schema definitions. SOAP encoding is an XML serialization algorithm for object graphs, defined in programming language-independent terms.
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• Cross-platform UI with Qt4 and Ruby - Mac/Linux HOWTO » Thursday Night

  • Posted: Sun Aug 26 03:29:52 UTC 2007

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• raganwald: Bricks

  • the physical manifestation of software, like written code, ..., have mass just like bricks. And if you want to redo things, the more mass you have, the harder it is to move and reshape it. In that sense, software is exactly like bricks.
  • Posted: Tue Aug 21 03:58:4…

• Viper 640 Class Association

  • Posted: Thu Aug 16 04:24:39 UTC 2007

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• Making it stick.: The Amazing Gloppita Gloppita Machine

  • Maybe these six committees can come up with "A Busy Developer's Guide to At Least One Permutation of the WS-I that All Vendors Can Nearly Agree Upon, Given Three More Revs of Their Software".
  • Posted: Wed Aug 15 02:59:36 UTC 2007
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• Programming: How to build a Firefox extension - Lifehacker

  • How difficult is it to build a Firefox extension? For someone with a bit of programming experience, the answer is not that difficult.
  • Posted: Sat Jun 09 04:55:43 UTC 2007

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• Weebls Stuff - Weebl and Bob

  • Posted: Fri Jun 01 02:55:43 UTC 2007

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• duplicity: Main

  • Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm
  • Posted: Wed May 30 06:49:34 UTC 2007

• Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.

  • Posted: Wed May 30 06:45:39 UTC 2007
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• start [Joyent Wiki]

  • "This wiki is all about getting stuff done with Joyent Accelerators and Shared Hosting."
  • Posted: Sun May 27 01:35:13 UTC 2007

• Hitchhikers guide to Haskell - HaskellWiki

  • Posted: Sun May 27 01:33:00 UTC 2007

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• funambol :: open source :: project :: overview

  • Open source, java-based SyncML server
  • Posted: Thu May 24 18:52:53 UTC 2007

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Here are some quick steps I did to do initial lockdown of a freshly created Joyent Accelerator: h2. Change passwords * Sign in as admin via secure shell to the default account, change its password * _su_ to root and change the root password * Go into…

• Giles Bowkett: Ruby, Rails, Java, and PHP

  • "One thing about Rails which is kind of weird is that it seems to be the place where a lot of Java people and PHP people are meeting each other for the first time....It's kind of like an interesting…

• Giles Bowkett: How To Sell Version Control To Graphic Designers

  • "Subversion Is Undo For Programmers"
  • Posted: Wed May 09 14:47:36 UTC 2007

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• ongoing · REST, as in Take It Easy

  • HTTP is a decent and under-appreciated protocol, but in the end maybe the most important thing is that it forces you to think about the messages and how you exchange them. There’s no pretense that Remote…

• Series 60 3rd Edition Nokia N73 synchronization with opensync under Ubuntu Edgy | wahlau's online hut

  • Posted: Tue May 01 18:49:49 UTC 2007

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• Sedna XML database

  • Sedna is an open source XML database management system. It is a XML-native system developed from scratch in C/C++ and Scheme. Sedna is a full-featured database system that supports queries, updates, ACID transactions, security, etc.
  • Posted: Wed Apr 25 18:02:23 UTC…

• Twitter, Rails, Hammers, and 11,000 Nails per Second — Thought Palace

  • "This whole thing has me wondering why it is that SQL databases are used as the all-purpose hammer for solving all data storage problems for web apps. To some degree this has to…

• RedHanded » Wonder of the When-Be-Splat

  • Really elegant Ruby trick
  • Posted: Tue Mar 27 15:22:10 UTC 2007

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• WindowsDevCenter.com: Logging with Custom Web Events

  • ASP.NET provides extensive support for logging with the Health Monitoring classes provided in the System.Management namespace, but few know of it, and fewer use it.
  • Posted: Wed Mar 14 19:55:44 UTC 2007
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• jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

  • jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
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• InfoQ: Introduction to ActiveMessaging for Rails

  • ActiveMessaging is a Rails plugin framework that extends the borders of Rails territory by adding simplified messaging integration.
  • Posted: Sun Mar 04 02:11:24 UTC 2007

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• Lost Garden: Rockets, Cars and Gardens: Visualizing waterfall, agile and stage gate

  • Posted: Tue Feb 27 23:09:29 UTC 2007

• Hotel Kanu, Slovenia

  • Decent, inexpensive hotel in Slovenia just outside Ljubljana
  • Posted: Tue Feb 27 20:37:13 UTC 2007

• Hotel zur Post Rohrdorf

  • Decent, economical place to stay on the way back to Munich airport. It's about 45 minutes Southeast of the airport
  • Posted: Tue Feb 27 20:35:53 UTC 2007
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• Lisa Alisa

  • Website of artist Lisa Alisa
  • Posted: Sat Feb 24 06:37:53 UTC 2007

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• Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST and WS-*

  • In a large system you may be faced with either a multitude of clients or a menagerie of them; in either case you have to stop serializing objects and start exchanging documents.
  • Posted: Wed Feb 21 02:54:55 UTC 2007
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• Coderific: blog - why the software industry is broken

  • The only people who really have a decent handle on where a project stands and what features can be added to it in a reasonable time frame are the coders in the trenches, and perhaps if the company is lucky, a good development manager or two.
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• Install Beryl on Ubuntu Edgy with AIGLX - Beryl Wiki

  • mmm...3d eye candy for Ubuntu. Pretty easy to install/configure.
  • Posted: Mon Feb 12 02:15:35 UTC 2007

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• The Essential Hardness of Programming

  • for a given project, you can assume that competent software engineers have mostly found and copied the relevant patterns of bits where possible, and the remaining work is design
  • Posted: Tue Feb 06 23:33:49 UTC 2007
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• IA THINK: Features sell products

  • lots of features = a complex user experience. In poorly design products, this is true. But in well-designed products, the basic experience is efficient and highly discoverable
  • Posted: Fri Feb 02 19:10:04 UTC 2007
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• Teliax local number port form

  • Posted: Wed Jan 31 21:33:53 UTC 2007

• Coding Horror: How To Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming

  • Finding people who can do what is described in this article were crucial to the success of the company I work for
  • Posted: Wed Jan 31 16:23:36 UTC 2007
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• MSDN Product Feedback Center Blog : Bug Reporting Best Practices

  • Posted: Mon Jan 29 22:07:38 UTC 2007

• How to Report Bugs Effectively

  • Posted: Mon Jan 29 22:06:48 UTC 2007

• how to write a good bug report - Google Search

  • Posted: Mon Jan 29 22:06:20 UTC 2007
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• Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: It is Hard to be a Dove

  • "if you examine the entire stack, there’s potential value in WS-Security, and since that requires (?) an envelope, the SOAP envelope will work. But helping oneself to a couple of good ideas does not…

• Raganwald: Are we Blub programmers?

  • I use the term "Blub" to refer to a programming language in the context of intransigent programmers who feel that their chosen tool is the best tool possible.
  • Posted: Thu Jan 18 03:27:40 UTC 2007

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• Welcome to the MSDN Library

  • This is the first in a series of papers from Microsoft dedicated to demystifying SaaS and providing practical, real-world guidance for architecting SaaS applications
  • Posted: Wed Jan 10 23:54:15 UTC 2007

• Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon

  • a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less
  • Posted: Wed Jan 10 03:04:51 UTC 2007
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• XenVirtualMachine/XenOnUbuntuEdgy - Community Ubuntu Documentation

  • Posted: Tue Jan 09 05:14:57 UTC 2007

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• Code Craft » Blog Archive » To rewrite or not to rewrite, that is the question

  • Interesting article. The first point, that less than 2 months means it's not a major piece of software) is interesting
  • Posted: Fri Jan 05 16:29:42 UTC 2007

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• Optimising TortoiseSVN « Programming Blog

  • Tips for optimizing the TortoiseSVN client on Windows to get better performance out of it
  • Posted: Wed Jan 03 02:19:25 UTC 2007

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• ExoticPhone.com, to satisfy your cell phone needs

  • Posted: Tue Jan 02 17:19:51 UTC 2007

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• Giles Bowkett: A Tale of Two Startups

  • What a lot of people don't realize about startups is that Silicon Valley creates such a huge number of startups not just because of the casino factor...but also because it's a fantastic recruiting system
  • Posted: Fri Dec 29 01:57:12 UTC 2006
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• Scrum for self

  • An Excel sheet to help you plan one-man Scrum for weekly sprints.
  • Posted: Mon Dec 25 19:20:18 UTC 2006

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• The BiPolar Lisp Programmer

  • Writing in C is like building a mosaic out of lentils using a tweezer and glue. Lisp is like wielding an air gun with power and precision. It opens out whole kingdoms shut to other programmers.
  • Posted: Fri Dec 22 17:05:08 UTC 2006
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• Bali - RELAX NG Validatelet Compiler

  • Bali is a "RELAX NG validator compiler" that reads a RELAX NG schema and produces a validator that can validate documents with the given schema.
  • Posted: Tue Dec 05 23:17:26 UTC 2006

• O'Reilly Radar > Engineering Management Hacks: Exupéry's Axiom

  • The best way to get developers to build something great is to make them believe your goal is worthwhile.
  • Posted: Tue Dec 05 16:04:07 UTC 2006
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• OASIS RELAX NG TC

  • The purpose of the OASIS RELAX NG TC is to create a specification for a schema language for XML based on the TREX proposal (http://www.thaiopensource.com/trex/).
  • Posted: Thu Nov 30 21:23:12 UTC 2006

• XML.com: Relax NG, Compared

  • ...it provides a good starting point for those of us who know W3C XML Schema and want to quickly point out the differences with RELAX NG
  • Posted: Thu Nov 30 21:22:14 UTC 2006
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• roachfiend.com » ListZilla

  • Outputs either a plain text, vB code, or HTML file that lists all installed themes or extensions.
  • Posted: Wed Nov 29 00:34:53 UTC 2006

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• Joel on Software: Choice = Headaches

  • This applies to pretty much any software design, not just Windows, and not just buttons/menus.
  • Posted: Mon Nov 27 18:18:23 UTC 2006

• nginx

  • nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
  • Posted: Mon Nov 27 16:07:28 UTC 2006
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• 3ware® RAID Drive Cages RDC- 400 / RDC- 400-SATA

  • Posted: Sat Nov 18 00:42:11 UTC 2006

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• Nelson's Weblog: tech / bad / whySoapSucks

  • strong typing is a bad choice for loosely coupled distributed systems. The moment you need to change anything, the type signature changes and all the clients that were built to your earlier protocol spec break.
  • Posted: Fri Nov 17 15:50:48 UTC 2006
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• Pete Lacey’s Weblog :: The S stands for Simple

  • Dev: Let me sum up. The definition of SOAP is in constant flux, SOAP is anything but simple, and it is no longer meant for accessing objects-even though that’s what all the tools still do.
  • Posted: Thu Nov 16 23:58:34 UTC 2006
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• My Name Rhymes - Converting Sourcesafe to Subversion

  • Someone shares their experience migrating off sourcesafe onto subversion. Upshot: vss2svn plus a little cleanup of some junk files works really well
  • Posted: Wed Nov 15 22:04:47 UTC 2006

• home of the nerd cave | taskbar shuffle and more

  • No need to get all nervous when a program crashes or if you wanna reboot; you can reorder the programs/buttons on your taskbar exactly how you like.
  • Posted: Wed Nov 15 21:35:26 UTC 2006
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• JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

  • So the rule is simple: The only time we should use the new operator is to invoke a pseudoclassical Constructor function. When calling a Constructor function, the use of new is mandatory.
  • Posted: Tue Nov 14 15:27:26 UTC 2006
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• IronPython: ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site

  • IronPython CTP for ASP.NET
  • Posted: Fri Nov 10 17:45:12 UTC 2006

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• Error-full systems emerge from single-strategy maintenance regimes - O'Reilly XML Blog

  • So is a better approach to just fix bugs randomly? Pick a bug from a hat? Well, maybe…. Perhaps we should say each maintenance methodology applied singly over time will result in an accumulation of unaddressed errors in some aspect.
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• Ned Batchelder: Subversion branching quick start

  • Interesting guide on doing branches in subversion
  • Posted: Mon Oct 30 23:44:33 UTC 2006

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• ASCII Generator

  • Generates ascii art font effects for a block of text
  • Posted: Fri Oct 27 17:57:46 UTC 2006

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• AutoLock - Automatic keylock for Nokia S60 (Series 60)

  • Posted: Wed Oct 25 20:07:17 UTC 2006

• http://mark.kampe.googlepages.com/lancelot.txt

  • Senior engineers need to appreciate considerations outside of the the development organization (customer…

• Y Combinator: Startup Library

  • Here is a list of links to essays and posts regarding startups, by Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, John Battelle and others.
  • Posted: Mon Oct 23 01:55:07 UTC 2006

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• Setting Up a Rails Development Environment and Deploying to Textdrive

  • Posted: Sun Oct 22 01:13:18 UTC 2006

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• Stargate: A LEGO® creation by Kelly McKiernan : MOCpages.com

  • This rotating Stargate is 19 inches tall with light-up chevrons. An RCX drives a treadmill, which spins the inner ring randomly for x seconds, then reverses direction, seven times. Won best medium space award and best brick mod at BrickFest 2005.
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• An Antic Disposition: A Leap Back

  • Microsoft could have easily have defined the XML format to require correct dates and managed the compatibility issues when loading/saving files in Excel. A file format is not required to be identical to an internal representation.
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• SitePoint Blogs » Installing and managing edge Rails

  • Posted: Thu Oct 12 21:59:03 UTC 2006

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• Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database

  • there will be a moment that you’ll want to store hierarchical data in a database.... You’ll have to find a way to translate the hierarchy in a flat file.
  • Posted: Tue Oct 10 20:34:35 UTC 2006

• Agility and legacy code refactoring - A++ [Eric Torreborre's Blog]

  • Let's say you have some bad legacy code (I have yet to see a codebase without any,...). When, how should you refactor/reengineer it?
  • Posted: Tue Oct 10 19:07:41 UTC 2006
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• Creating Passionate Users: Knocking the exuberance out of employees

  • There's a canyon-sized gap between what company heads say they want (brave, bold, innovative) and what their own middle management seems to prefer (yes-men, worker bees, team players).
  • Posted: Mon Oct 09 01:13:08 UTC 2006
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• Building Large Systems - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog

  • if you find something is hard to test, that’s a code smell. Maybe your superWunderFunction() which takes 13 arguments isn’t designed terribly well. That’s not saying that all hard-to-test code has a design flaw (GUIs, for example), but as you test m
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• Inspirational Linux Posters

  • Posted: Wed Oct 04 20:41:29 UTC 2006

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• for love of dogs and coffee : Weblog

  • The last thing I look for is that the candidate's values fit nicely with our own. By values, I mean priorities. Ideally, the company has a set of values at a high level and the development group has a set of…

Having worked at some places with what I would call "restrictive access policies" regarding internet sites and ports that can be accessed, as well as the software and configuration of computers issued to employees, I am led to the following question…

• The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972

  • Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages. When we identify and document one, that should not be the end of the story. Rather, we should have the long-term goal of trying to…

I have posted several times about it, made a bunch of different arguments, and anybody who has talked to me about web services has heard me try and make the argument not to force a web service to be the serialized transfer of object artifacts. But…

• In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic

  • ultra-lightweight, simple tool for producing wireframes right inside the browser
  • Posted: Fri Sep 29 07:45:46 UTC 2006

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• Text* Snippets: LightTPD subdomain rewrite, Backpack/Basecamp style. [lighttpd] [python] [subdomain] [fcgi] [django] [mod_rewrite]

  • Posted: Thu Sep 28 15:25:20 UTC 2006

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• A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards

  • Posted: Wed Sep 27 04:59:22 UTC 2006

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• bee - issue tracker for SaaS sites

  • Bee integrates with your web application (Bee will work with regular applications too). If a user encounters a bug, they can simply click a link like [Report a bug], type their email (if it’s not silently entered…

• Raganwald: The Revolution will not be on YouTube

  • You will not be able to stay home, hacker. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on MySpace and skip, Skip out for espresso during reloads, Because the revolution will not be on YouTube.
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• Grinding Rails » Blog Archive » Make a Self Documenting Application with WikiNotes

  • The idea is simple - every page has a wiki space where anyone can type whatever makes sense - a howto guide, some troubleshoot tips, whatever.
  • Posted: Mon Sep 11 21:46:39 UTC 2006
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• How to send a client certificate by using the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes in Microsoft Visual C# .NET

  • Method 1 Use the X509Certificate class to read the certificate from a .cer file, and then set the ClientCertificates property.
  • Posted: Tue Sep 05 22:54:01 UTC 2006
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• ARCHOS 604 PVP

  • Archos' 604 4.3" screen PVP
  • Posted: Thu Aug 24 17:40:49 UTC 2006

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• Software by Rob : Personality Traits of the Best Software Developers

  • "I've known a few phenomenal developers. I'm talking about those A+ people whom you would quit your job for to go start a company. And the the more I looked at what makes them so…

• smerl - Google Code

  • Simple Metaprogramming for Erlang Smerl is a library that simplifies the generation and manipulation of Erlang code in runtime.
  • Posted: Mon Aug 21 17:44:24 UTC 2006

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• Agile Project Planning: Small Teams Make Better Software

  • Two main points: ship something (build vertical slices of functionality you can show). Small teams work best and as they work together longer process gets internalized and begins to appear like, but is not, "no process".
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• Dr Nic’s Magic Models

  • Lets Rails infer more of the relationship/validation in a model class from the database
  • Posted: Fri Aug 11 15:43:59 UTC 2006

• The Blog Ride - The Vietnam of Computer Science

  • "Although it may seem trite to say it, Object…

• Imran On Tech » Who needs good software developers anyway ?

  • "If a company gives a heavy technical drilling, expecting the candidate to write code, debug on paper, discuss algorithms then chances are that they want good software developers."
  • Posted: Thu Aug 10 05:10:08 UTC 2006
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• Dr. Dobb's | SQL Cache Dependencies | July 26, 2006

  • Since the advent of the ASP.NET Cache object and cache dependencies, developers have dreamt of an easy way to refresh stored result sets based on database changes. In ASP.NET 2.0, the dream came true.
  • Posted: Tue Aug 08 21:20:07 GMT 2006
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• MF Bliki: CustomerAffinity

  • Martin Fowler nails it when he says: "When someone is looking at what makes up a top-class enterprise software developer, often the conversation may turn to knowledge of frameworks and languages, or perhaps the ability…

• Dynamic Systems Initiative: Service Modeling Language Specification

  • This specification defines the Service Modeling Language (SML) used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. SML is based on a profile of XML Schema and Schematron.
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• Steve: Developing on the Edge - No, blame whoever uses WSDL

  • blame WSDL and XSD. The nicest thing on that front this week is Arjen's XSD to create WSDL From XSD. Now, if we could use annotation attributes in the XSD to tune the WSDL, we'd have something really, really, interesting.
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• Wilco Bauwer - IronRuby

  • a Ruby interpreter for the .NET CLR, a project very similar to IronPython
  • Posted: Mon Jul 24 19:46:49 GMT 2006

• XML.com: Implementing the Atom Publishing Protocol

  • Posted: Mon Jul 24 03:50:40 GMT 2006

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• JeffCroft.com: On bureaucracy

  • the author says: "Try cutting down some red tape and giving your creative minds that know their industry inside and out a bit more autonomy. I don’t promise it’ll work for everyone, but it seems to work for us."
  • Posted: Fri Jul 21 19:15:18 GMT 2006
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• Psyc+Tech » Blog Archive » Don’t draw diagrams of wrong practices - or: Why people still believe in the Waterfall model

  • so why do people still advocate the waterfall? If you look at the scientific articles on software engineering that discuss the waterfall, they all cite Royce’s article. In other words, they’re saying something like “The waterfall is a proven method
  • …

• iBatis Quick Start

  • Some systems try to generate SQL statements for you, but iBATIS specializes in data mapping, not code generation. It's our job (or the job of our database administrator) to craft the SQL or provide a stored procedure. We then…

• PBS | I, Cringely . June 29, 2006 - If we build it they will come

  • "...we have redundant capital-intensive bit paths whose only purpose is to contain bits within billing paths....In practice, the telcos are about nothing at all other than creating billable events." -Bob Frankston
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• Text of the US Constitution

  • We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty…

• How Not to Lead Geeks

  • Ok, I just wanted to reference this, so into the linkpile it goes
  • Posted: Fri Jun 23 21:58:22 GMT 2006

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• Ruby QuickRef

  • Very condensed quickref
  • Posted: Wed Jun 14 19:36:39 GMT 2006

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Courtesy of Sean McGrath who found it elsewhere. Put this in .fonts.conf in your home directory:

• Will Price: Structured Interviewing

  • Coral8's structured technical interviewing process explained. Pretty good ideas on process and how to focus directly in on good candidates.
  • Posted: Thu Jun 08 15:58:55 GMT 2006

• Top Ten Myths About Evolution

  • Very good list/analysis of common misperceptions used by the ignorant^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hintelligent design/creationism crowd to "disprove" evolution, and a good demonstration of how to apply scientific principles to the argument
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• Four ways to work with hierarchical data | evolt.org

  • Interesting ways to work with hierarchical data storage in a SQL database. The modified preorder tree traversal algorithm is one of the more elegant solutions I have seen, especially if you can come up with a way to make insertion easy
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• DanNorth.net » How simple is too simple?

  • Excellent coverage refuting "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" meaning "do the easiest thing that solves your problem today" by pointing out that you should at least consider how long you have…

• ONJava.com: Working with the Google Web Toolkit

  • Introductory tutorial on getting started with the GWT
  • Posted: Thu Jun 01 15:24:39 GMT 2006

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• Exchange Server Non-deliverable Report (NDR's) Codes

  • Might be useful now my employer's email is hosted on exchange
  • Posted: Wed May 31 18:32:26 GMT 2006

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• Tracks

  • Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like…

• Picasa for Linux

  • I already had it running under wine, but did not have any of the http/web goodness available to me. This is pretty cool that they have a package with an optimized version of wine in it
  • Posted: Fri May 26 17:00:28 GMT 2006

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• Geeking with Greg: Early Amazon: Shopping cart recommendations

  • In my experience, innovation can only come from the bottom. Those closest to the problem are in the best position to solve it. I believe any organization that depends on innovation…

• from Mars: Ubuntu Dapper upgrade

  • Useful instructions on how to get wpa wireless/network mgr. applet working with dapper
  • Posted: Tue May 23 01:44:43 GMT 2006

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• AlterNet: The NSA's Political Fiction

  • Ignore the context of this article, I have been looking for a succint way to say what the author says right here: ..."most people, even highly educated ones, go through their lives without ever examining the…

• Will Price: Cash Breakeven Analysis

  • Posted: Thu May 18 15:18:48 GMT 2006

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• Don't scar on the first cut - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

  • DHH says "Policies are often the result of something that once went wrong. It’s organizational scar tissue developed from a This Can Never Happen Again mandate. And its almost always ill-considered."
  • Posted: Tue May 16 21:24:31 GMT 2006
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• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Tim Ewald on Versioning XML Web Services with XSD

  • An important discussion, from a platform-agnostic perspective, of the limitations of using xsd, or even wsdl, for validation or for strengthening the data typing of xml elements for an XML<->object mapping
  • Posted: Mon May 15 01:46:12 GMT 2006
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• HowtoUseRailsWithSubversion in Ruby on Rails

  • Posted: Thu May 11 15:50:39 GMT 2006

• Dr. Dobb's | Win the Waiting Game with ASP.NET Asynchronous Pages | April 25, 2006

  • Good explanation of building ASP.Net 2.0 async web pages. They use the standard MS async .Net processing model of wiring up a beginX/endX event handler delegate.
  • Posted: Thu May 11 20:48:14 GMT 2006
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• Optparse (script) Template [ruby] [unix]

  • Posted: Tue May 09 06:17:45 GMT 2006

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• Topix.net Weblog: Topix.net Architecture

  • Topix.net on flat files versus RDBMS
  • Posted: Mon May 08 16:28:30 GMT 2006

• The Four Horsemen of Replication

  • First of a series of articles on various replication strategies
  • Posted: Mon May 08 16:31:25 GMT 2006
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• Wired News: Everyone Wants to 'Own' Your PC

  • "If left to grow, these external control systems will fundamentally change your relationship with your computer. They will make your computer much less useful by letting corporations limit what you can…

• The World Clock - Time Zones

  • Posted: Wed May 03 04:51:13 GMT 2006

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• DTrace on Rails

  • Bryan Cantrill, the dtrace guy, on using dtrace on Rails apps on Solaris. I continue to be impressed by what the latest Solaris can do.
  • Posted: Tue May 02 16:17:28 GMT 2006

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• What's new in Rails 1.1

  • List of a bunch of stuff that was introduced in Rails 1.1
  • Posted: Sun Apr 30 18:37:49 GMT 2006

• jsgal

  • "Jsgal is a javascript/XML based web gallery that dynamically builds galleries without the need of any scripting support on the web server."
  • Posted: Sun Apr 30 20:21:35 GMT 2006
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• SftpDrive: The SFTP Network File System for Windows

  • Map your SSH server as a Windows network drive with SftpDrive. Our SFTP file system network enables all your Windows applications.
  • Posted: Sat Apr 29 02:17:53 GMT 2006

• ongoing - SAML On The March

  • Uncle Tim Bray says: For my money, the hot story is the Danish requirement that if you want to do federation, you should bloody well use SAML.
  • Posted: Sat Apr 29 02:15:28 GMT 2006
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• Ruby/ReliableMessaging - Labnotes

  • Reliable Messaging with Ruby -- This package provides reliable messaging and persistent queues for building asynchronous applications in Ruby.
  • Posted: Thu Apr 27 14:24:34 GMT 2006

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• Scale with Rails

  • Even if you don't attend the sessions, there's a link to Jason Hoffman's slides about Rails and scalability
  • Posted: Wed Apr 26 15:26:41 GMT 2006

• Alternate New Hampshire State Mottos | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

  • Posted: Wed Apr 26 19:26:54 GMT 2006
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• Slogging

  • "Now matter which way you tackle contract evolution, you need to have a system in place to notify your service consumers. I envision a system based on “service blogs”, or “slogs”. A slog conveys information about the state of a service. As a consu
  • Posted: Tue Apr 25 15:4…

• XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

  • An XML Pipeline describes a sequence of operations to be performed on a collection of input documents. Pipelines take zero or more XML documents as their input and produce zero or more XML documents as their output…

• Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: SaaS - new software model, new challenges

  • VC/biz dev take on the particular challenges of a software as a service startup
  • Posted: Tue Apr 18 15:23:30 GMT 2006

• ACM Professional Development Centre Books Program

  • Book services that come with an ACM professional membership
  • Posted: Tue Apr 18 03:51:11 GMT 2006
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• Solving the XSD versioning problem

  • Really, this is simply another variation of Postel's law: be careful in what you produce and flexible with what you receive, which is the basis for all the successful distributed systems I know of.
  • Posted: Mon Apr 17 17:31:38 GMT 2006
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• » Your pedestal is showing : Pensieri di un lunatico minore

  • ...my theme is you can have it better, cheaper and fast enough if you just stop obsessing over what analysts and enterprisey architects tell you, and focus on your real core problem. The…

• The Development Abstraction Layer - Joel on Software

  • Any successful software company is going to consist of a thin layer of developers, creating software, spread across the top of a big abstract administrative organization.
  • Posted: Wed Apr 12 04:48:36 GMT 2006
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• Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX

  • Technique for doing mutexes in Javascript
  • Posted: Thu Apr 06 02:38:04 GMT 2006

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• True ASP.NET Digest Authentication With Database

  • Friend don't let friends
  • Posted: Tue Apr 04 22:41:06 GMT 2006

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• OpenLaszlo | the premier open-source platform for rich internet applications

  • OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software. OpenLaszlo programs are…

• Using XML schemas effectively in WSDL design - HP Dev Resource Central

  • If you absolutely, positively, have to be stuck in WS-* land
  • Posted: Fri Mar 31 20:43:53 GMT 2006

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• Will Price: Marketing Best Practices

  • The goal of a start-up's marketing plan should be to drive leads into the sales process. Ultimately, management needs to track the cost per lead and the cost per close.
  • Posted: Thu Mar 30 15:17:03 GMT 2006

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• Series of articles on real world Rails scaling work

  • Posted: Tue Mar 28 16:18:42 GMT 2006

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• Clickatell Bulk SMS Gateway

  • Clickatell is the world's leading provider of Bulk SMS messaging services and SMS Gateway connectivity with reliable coverage to 569 networks in 183 countries worldwide. We offer our customers access to a secure…

• Creating DSLs with Ruby

  • Broadly speaking, there are two ways to create a DSL. One is to invent a syntax from scratch, and build an interpreter or compiler. The other is to tailor an existing general-purpose language by adding or changing methods…

• Watir: Web Application Testing in Ruby

  • WATIR stands for "Web Application Testing in Ruby". Watir is a free, open-source functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is pronounced water. Watir drives the…

• Operacast - Opera Broadcasts on the Internet

  • Posted: Sun Mar 12 04:59:26 GMT 2006

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• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - ETech 2006 Trip Report: Scaling Fast and Cheap - How We Built Flickr

  • notes on the Scaling Fast and Cheap - How We Built Flickr session by Cal Henderson
  • Posted: Wed Mar 08 02:42:41 GMT 2006

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• The Five Essential Phone Screen Questions

  • In an effort to make life simpler for phone screeners, I've put together this list of Five Essential Questions that you need to ask during an SDE screen. They won't guarantee that your candidate will be…

• Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!

  • the maximum number of layouts based on the same markup, each with valid CSS and HTML, without hacks nor workaround and a good cross-browser compatibility. The result is a set of 40 layouts that we've thought worth sharing
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• 4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board

  • 1996 article by Neal Stephenson ("Cryptonomicon", The Baroque Cycle books) about the laying of FLAG, the first major fiber optic cable to go from Europe via Asia to Japan instead of through the US. This cable laid…

• Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing

  • Saxon is now available for both Java and .Net. They use the ikvm java to MSIL compiler to generate the .Net executables
  • Posted: Tue Feb 28 17:21:04 GMT 2006

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• Rails Application Visualizer

  • Uses graphviz to auto-generate a diagram of your rails app
  • Posted: Mon Feb 27 22:44:45 GMT 2006

• developerWorks : Blogs : Chris Ferris

  • Most SOAP stacks, with which I am familiar, provide for the ability to bypass…

• RFC 1918 (rfc1918) - Address Allocation for Private Internets

  • The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets
  • Posted: Wed Feb 22 19:37:00 GMT 2006

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• Feedmarker Blog » Blog Archive » How to Make Better Modal Windows with Lightbox

  • Lightbox object: create a modal window (or more than one) on a page really easily.
  • Posted: Wed Feb 15 15:40:24 GMT 2006

• Geek to Live: Flickr Advanced User Guide - Lifehacker

  • some of the more advanced but useful features you may not know about in Flickrville
  • Posted: Wed Feb 15 18:42:44 GMT 2006
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• ongoing · Fast and Always On

  • Let's lay it out in maximally-simple bullet-point form so anyone can understand it: * Fast pipe. * Always on. * Get out of the way.
  • Posted: Fri Feb 10 03:10:45 GMT 2006

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• Clearbits » SOME RANDOM DUDE

  • Clearbits is a small spinoff of the Bitcons icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing. The icon design is exactly the same, the only thing missing is a background - allowing you to set it to any color you so desire.
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Found this wonderful article today with the following excerpt:

In the world of economics, it is the U.S. that believes in natural selection, and it is Europe, specifically the EU and its leading countries, which clings to an outmoded ideology of intelligent design.

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• franklinmint.fm: Erlang, Instrumentation, and Webapps

  • Couple of interesting resources on erlang
  • Posted: Tue Feb 07 15:23:58 GMT 2006

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Finally, a description of good web service/SOA design that even pointy haired bosses can understand :-) The graphics are designed to make it clear to non-technical users how to go about designing the boundaries of your web services/SOA!

• Pylons - Trac

  • Interesting mashup of RoR, python, and asp-looking code
  • Posted: Wed Feb 01 02:59:48 GMT 2006

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• Erratic Wisdom: Tutorial: Coding a Layout

  • This tutorial should help you learn how to analyze either a new template, or even your current layout to find the best way to code it.
  • Posted: Tue Jan 31 22:20:05 GMT 2006

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• SEDA - Architecture for Highly-Concurrent Server Applications

  • SEDA is an acronym for staged event-driven architecture, and decomposes a complex, event-driven application into a set of stages connected by queues. This design avoids the high…

• Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:FireBug - All Releases

  • FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.
  • Posted: Sat Jan 21 18:59:45 GMT 2006
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• franklinmint.fm: Atom Over XMPP Hack For a Book That Wasn't To Be

  • Interesting article about how to move Atom xml over XMPP (Jabber protocol)
  • Posted: Fri Jan 20 03:52:18 GMT 2006

• franklinmint.fm: Atom Digital Signatures with Code in Java

  • It's sometimes important to ensure that a message isn't tampered with on its way to a feed reader. XML Digital Signatures (XML DSig) allow the reciever to verify that nothing has been altered in transit.
  • Posted: Fri Jan 20 03:48:53 GMT 2006
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• Rails RSS2.0 and Atom1.0 feed templates

  • Some xml feed templates that work well for rails. These uses the great XML::Builder library that comes with rails. With these you use an .rxml file for your view instead of your normal .rhtml file.
  • Posted: Thu Jan 19 19:41:47 GMT 2006
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• History of the BASIC family of languages

  • Visual Basic 4.0 is introduced. It includes object capabilities, if you define “object capabilities” to mean “something sort of like object capabilities, but not really”.
  • Posted: Sat Jan 14 15:54:51 GMT 2006
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• Altova XML Spy under wine

  • Altova even gives you the recipe for how to get XML Spy running under wine
  • Posted: Tue Jan 10 02:52:16 GMT 2006

• REXML Tutorial - Home

  • Good introductory tutorial on Ruby's REXML library
  • Posted: Tue Jan 10 16:08:08 GMT 2006
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• Collaboa.org

  • Collaboa is to be a collaborative tool for developers using Subversion. Think rails version of Trac.
  • Posted: Thu Jan 05 16:38:07 GMT 2006

• Maintainable Programmers [@lesscode.org]

  • To conclude that if these programmers did learn language X, they would suddenly turn out maintainable code, or that if a good programmer changed camps from langauage X to language Y, the quality of his code would suddenly degrade, is fallacious.
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• Lightbox JS

  • Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
  • Posted: Tue Jan 03 02:20:31 GMT 2006

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I like to keep my work email sorted by year to keep the size of the various boxes small for perusal (oh for the day Google sells corporate gmail!). This script is part of a process to accomplish that. It mirrors your existing Thunderbird folder…

• enplaned

  • Pretty deep analysis of various issues in the airline industry
  • Posted: Sun Jan 01 19:06:00 GMT 2006

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• Exclusive: Google to offer feed API

  • Google aggregates your feed data for you, and people get to write cool APIs on top of it
  • Posted: Fri Dec 30 20:33:17 GMT 2005

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• http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/jordan/pages/Prototype%20Library%20Info.htm

  • Overview/quickref of the basic functionality of the prototype javascript library. Doesn't really cover how to use it, but shows what is there
  • Posted: Wed Dec 21 16:05:01 GMT 2005
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• Emily Chang - eHub

  • Get your fresh hot Web2.0 buzzwords here! Pretty good coverage of new sites/tools in the web2.0 space
  • Posted: Tue Dec 20 04:59:38 GMT 2005

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• XML.com: REST on Rails

  • Good article about how to make a RESTful web service using Rails
  • Posted: Fri Dec 16 16:40:19 GMT 2005

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• Hypercubed : Projects : Hypercubed Firefox Extensions

  • Xinha Here! is a wrapper for the Xinha HTML editor that enables WYSIWYG editing in any html textarea and text input elements. Xinha Here! opens Xinha editor on the client side. This allows you…

• JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language

  • Interesting article advocating Javascript as a fairly advanced object/functional language whose features most people are not aware even exist
  • Posted: Tue Dec 13 01:43:19 GMT 2005

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• The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 (web2.wsj2.com)

  • Although it is supposed to be a "prize" type thing, it's really also a nice list of online webapps in various categories, with some commentary in the post on why he likes them.
  • Posted: Mon Dec 12 17:11:17 GMT 2005
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• Text* Snippets: Ruby script to post daily del.icio.us links to a blog

  • Command line script to post a time range's worth of del.icio.us links to your blog. Uses XMLRPC and the metaweblog API to do its work. Needs customization to work on your own blog
  • Posted: Sun Dec 11 02:53:21 GMT 2005
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• Jon Udell: Eric Newcomer on the RPC/doc-literal cultural divide

  • Nice video clip on some of the base impedance mismatch between old-school RPC people and http/markup people on what web services messages should look like
  • Posted: Thu Dec 08 16:03:08 GMT 2005
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• PXN8.COM - Photos Made Easy

  • Online picture editor
  • Posted: Tue Dec 06 02:45:48 GMT 2005

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• From the Editor -- Web Apps, Issue 2 Mar/Apr 1997

  • Dan Connolly writes something that I found pretty clear when I first had to read the RFC for the URL specification in 1998
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Earlier, I posted about how not forcing all access to web services to go through objects that were serialized into and back out of XML but instead were XML documents that were designed to stand on their own made it easier to implement both web…

Found this quote today from Eve Maler

The trend in distributed computing is towards service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Early in the life of this buzzword, some people said it should really be called a document-oriented architecture (except for…

To list the schemas in a postgresql database:

select nspname from pg_namespace;

I wanted a nice convenient way to have multiple Rails apps share my single postgresql database but keep all the apps' tables/procs/views/other artifacts isolated from each other. I came up with the following solution, which I can't claim is…

NACK the GAC Chris Sells goes over the very few reasons why the GAC should be employed. We've run into most of the issues here at Outtask:

The one where I can only come up with two reasons for using the GAC, the first being very difficult to pull off correctly and the second to happen more and more rarely as we move to SOA and .NET.

This post feels very much like "Why do we still need duals?"…