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Seth's Blog: I need to build a house, what kind of hammer should I buy?

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2008%2F07%2Fi-need-to-build.html Tagged by olifante under no_tag,

Going Fast on the Mobile Web

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under mobile, presentation, optimization, browser, caching, iphone, lessons, performance,

txt2re: headache relief for programmers

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

"This system acts as a regular expression generator. Instead of trying to build the regular expression, you start off with the string that you want to search. You paste this into the site, click submit and the site finds recognisable patterns" Tagged by olifante under regex, generator, webapp,

Windows Environment Variables

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under reference, windows, variables, environment, shell, list,

Using Python to create UNIX command line tools

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under python, optparse, subprocess, orm, storm, configparser, ini, cli, options, arguments,

Secure Passwords Keep You Safer

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

"Forensic Toolkit ... scans a hard drive for every printable character string. It looks in documents, in the Registry, in e-mail, in swap files, in deleted space on the hard drive... everywhere. And it creates a dictionary from that & feeds it into PRTK" Tagged by olifante under password, hacking, security, forensics, keylogger, PRTK,

Forget the Courts — Apple May Fight Mac Clones With Tech

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

"Apple may have a hard time shutting down the new maverick Mac-clonemaker Psystar.... while Psystar may be violating Apple's end user license agreement, or EULA, by doing this, legally there's not much Apple can do about it" Tagged by olifante under apple, clone, osx, opencomputer, EULA, law, contract, leopard, pc,

Public asked to shape open-government bill

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

A lobbyist at odds with that pesky democracy thing: "Are we going to let the American people decide our defense policy, our trade policy, our immigration policy?" Tagged by olifante under politics, lobbying, democracy, power, policy,

AndyJeffries.co.uk: Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Rails apology from a Symfony/PHP developer Tagged by olifante under rails, ruby, RubyOnRails, php, symfony, MVC, webdev, activerecord,

ONLamp.com: Interactive Debugging in Python

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Detailed intro to pdb debugging, by Jeremy Jones Tagged by olifante under python, debugging, pdb, intro, tutorial, programming,

Debugging in Python

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Short intro to pdb Tagged by olifante under pdb, howto, python, debugging, introduction,

String wave simulator

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Very nice interactive flash application that let's you experiment with string waves. You can vary the frequency, the amplitude, the tension, the dissipation and a few other parameters. Pretty well done. Tagged by olifante under physics, waves, animation, flash, science,

The Silent Room Tone

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Jokes as gauge of crowd mood: "The volume of the laugh is important, but so is the lag time. You can tell immediately if they're on your side, and if they're really following what you're saying, by how quickly the crowd responds to your jokes." Tagged by olifante under presentation, publicspeaking, tips, mood, jokes, roomtone, twitter, backchannel,

The Game Plan : A solution framework for climate change and energy.

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under environment, energy, presentation, climatechange, sustainability, green, slides,

Common Error No. 61

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

"There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing and it will come.... For most of humanity's existence on this planet, poverty has been the norm" Tagged by olifante under poverty, wealth, development, value, innovation, economics,

The Good Guy Behind "Don't Be Evil" and Google Mail

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

"The very first version of [AdSense] was actually a side project while I was working on Gmail because we had no way of making money for Gmail.... I just built it one night and released it on our internal prototype of Gmail." Tagged by olifante under interview, buchheit, adsense, google, friendfeed, business, startup,

My IP Address Lookup - Community Geotarget IP Project - what country, city ip addresses map to - IP Trace

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under geo, location, geolocation, ip, internet,

IP Geolocator - Trace an IP address to city, country, ISP - Geody

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under ip, internet, geolocator, geolocation, database, network,

Newshoured - Local news without fuss

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

Tagged by olifante under local, news, aggregator, postcode,

MaxMind - GeoLite City | Free IP Address to City Database

olifante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:00 -0400

"GeoLite City is similar to the GeoIP City database, but is less accurate. Should you require greater accuracy, GeoIP City is a drop-in replacement for GeoLite City." Tagged by olifante under geolocation, geoip, geocoding, free, database, ip,