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

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

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 no_tag

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/i-need-to-build.html - cached - mail it - history

Going Fast on the Mobile Web

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 mobile · presentation · optimization · browser · caching · iphone · lessons · performance

http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/going-fast-on-the-mobile-web - cached - mail it - history

txt2re: headache relief for programmers

"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"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 regex · generator · webapp

http://www.txt2re.com/index-python.php3 - cached - mail it - history

Windows Environment Variables

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 reference · windows · variables · environment · shell · list

http://libertyboy.free.fr/computing/reference/envariables/index.php - cached - mail it - history

Using Python to create UNIX command line tools

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · optparse · subprocess · orm · storm · configparser · ini · cli · options · arguments

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-pythocli/?ca=dgr-lnxw06pythonunixtool&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR - cached - mail it - history

Secure Passwords Keep You Safer

"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"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 password · hacking · security · forensics · keylogger · PRTK

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/01/72458?currentPage=all - cached - mail it - history

Forget the Courts — Apple May Fight Mac Clones With Tech

"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"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 apple · clone · osx · opencomputer · EULA · law · contract · leopard · pc

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2008/04/apple_psystar - cached - mail it - history

Public asked to shape open-government bill

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?"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 politics · lobbying · democracy · power · policy

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/04/13/0413sunlight.html - cached - mail it - history

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

Rails apology from a Symfony/PHP developer

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 rails · ruby · RubyOnRails · php · symfony · MVC · webdev · activerecord

http://andyjeffries.co.uk/blog/why-i-think-ruby-on-rails-is-an-ideal-web-development-environment.html - cached - mail it - history

ONLamp.com: Interactive Debugging in Python

Detailed intro to pdb debugging, by Jeremy Jones

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · debugging · pdb · intro · tutorial · programming

http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6163 - cached - mail it - history

Debugging in Python

Short intro to pdb

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 pdb · howto · python · debugging · introduction

http://www.ferg.org/papers/debugging_in_python.html - cached - mail it - history

String wave simulator

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.

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 physics · waves · animation · flash · science

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/simulations/stringwave/stringWave.swf - cached - mail it - history

The Silent Room Tone

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."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 presentation · publicspeaking · tips · mood · jokes · roomtone · twitter · backchannel

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2008/03/the-silent-room.html - cached - mail it - history

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

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 environment · energy · presentation · climatechange · sustainability · green · slides

http://www.wattzon.org/gameplan.htm - cached - mail it - history

Common Error No. 61

"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"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 poverty · wealth · development · value · innovation · economics

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/globalization/common-error-no.-61-200803151059/ - cached - mail it - history

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

"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."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 interview · buchheit · adsense · google · friendfeed · business · startup

http://rajeshbarnabas.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/29/1335333-the-good-guy-behind-dont-be-evil-and-google-mail - cached - mail it - history

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

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 geo · location · geolocation · ip · internet

http://www.hostip.info/ - cached - mail it - history

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

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ip · internet · geolocator · geolocation · database · network

http://www.geody.com/geoip.php - cached - mail it - history

Newshoured - Local news without fuss

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 local · news · aggregator · postcode

http://newshoured.com/ - cached - mail it - history

MaxMind - GeoLite City | Free IP Address to City Database

"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."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 geolocation · geoip · geocoding · free · database · ip

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity - cached - mail it - history

Blog - 9 Essential Rails Tips - Fortytwo.gr

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 rails · tips · activerecord · rubyonrails · optimization · performance

http://fortytwo.gr/blog/18/9-Essential-Rails-Tips - cached - mail it - history

seattlerb's production_log_analyzer-1.5.0 Documentation

"production_log_analyzer lets you find out which actions on a Rails site are slowing you down."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 rubyonrails · logging · rails · performance · tools

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/production_log_analyzer/ - cached - mail it - history

Cycling '74 || Tools For New Media

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 max/msp · Software · music · audio · jitter · live · programming · art · video

http://www.cycling74.com/ - cached - mail it - history

In Response to “What Sucks About Erlang”

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 erlang · Language · programming · advocacy · riposte · rebuttal

http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/03/09/in-response-to-what-sucks-about-erlang/ - cached - mail it - history

Damien Katz: What Sucks About Erlang

"it's time to whine about my favorite language I use quite extensively. Erlang, I love ya, but we need to have a word."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 erlang · programming · language · functional · critique

http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html - cached - mail it - history

Twin Sunset: Structured Python Editor

"One of my perpetual second week projects is to make an IDE that understands Python as the serialization format of a graph of objects — modules, classes, and functions — rather than text."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 subtext · ast · programming · python · editor · IDE · graph · MVC · structure

http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/04/structured-python-editor.html - cached - mail it - history

We Don't Know How To Program...

"Somewhere, Out There, There's a Way to write large programs without me having to sweat out Every Bloody Little Detail about how my parallel program communicates internally. Screw Java: I got a JVM with a super GC, fantastic JIT & decent concurrent libs"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 java · programming · concurrency · jvm · performance · erlang · hotspot · jit · gc · serial · concurrent

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/04/we-dont-know-ho.html - cached - mail it - history

A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity

"there is another private liquidity market under development called Opus-5. The idea behind both of these new emerging (and currently illiquid) markets is to provide a place for private equity investors to trade securities with each other."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 business · vc · internet · liquidity · web2.0 · startups · venture_capital · acquisition · innovation

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/we-need-a-new-p.html - cached - mail it - history

Google App Engine for developers

"Google App Engine is a managed hosting environment with a tightly managed stack running in a machine-independent environment. It simplifies the deployment and management of your web application software stack while constraining you to a specific stack."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 google · appengine · python · programming · framework · architecture

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/04/google-app-engine.html - cached - mail it - history

Using Django with Appengine

"This is a port of the Django tutorial to use appengine instead of Pure Django. Like in the Django tutorial, we build a poll engine, where you can create polls and others can vote for them."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · appengine · google · tutorial · python · webdev

http://www.42topics.com/dumps/django/docs.html - cached - mail it - history

PDF: The Five Orders of Ignorance - Viewing software development as knowledge acquisition and ignorance reduction.

"software is not a product, but rather a medium for the storage of knowledge.... the fifth such medium that has existed since the beginning of time. The other knowledge storage media being, in historical order: DNA, brains, hardware, and books"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 pdf · ignorance · process · product · software · knowledge · acquisition · storage

http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/3308-07/p17-armour.pdf - cached - mail it - history

Errata: Entities That Have Suffered Large Personal Data Incidents

List of major incidents where personal data was stolen or compromised

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 dataloss · security · privacy · reference · disclosure · history · list · theft · legal · internet · data

http://attrition.org/dataloss/ - cached - mail it - history

Javascript and Smalltalk

"Dan Ingalls, one of the father of Smalltalk, is working on a new project called Lively. It is a rewrite of Morphic in Javascript, especially target for building a Squeak-like interface."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 lively · morphic · smalltalk · javascript · performance · problems · ingalls

http://blog.objectsroot.com/blog/2008/feb/16/javascript-and-smalltalk/ - cached - mail it - history

rb-appscript

"Ruby appscript (rb-appscript) is a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications using ordinary Ruby scripts."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ruby · applescript · rb-appscript · script · scripting · macosx · osx · programming

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/rb-appscript/index.html - cached - mail it - history

RubyOSA - a Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge

"RubyOSA provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript. "

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ruby · applescript · osx · scripting · mac · programming

http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Pyro - About

"Pyro is short for PYthon Remote Objects ... an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use.... when using Pyro you just write your Python objects like you would normally"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · distributed · programming · rpc · framework

http://pyro.sourceforge.net/ - cached - mail it - history

Python Package Index : processing 0.50 - Package for using processes which mimics the threading module

"processing is a package for the Python language which supports the spawning of processes using the API of the standard library's threading module. It runs on both Unix and Windows."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · parallel · concurrency · process · programming · threading

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing - cached - mail it - history

cairo - introduction

"Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, Quartz, and XCB"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 graphics · library · programming · cairo · rendering · visualization · opensource

http://www.cairographics.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Squeak by Example

"Squeak by Example, intended for both students and developers, will guide you gently through the Squeak language and environment by means of a series of examples and exercises."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 squeak · smalltalk · programming · book · tutorial · free · online · pdf

http://www.squeakbyexample.org/ - cached - mail it - history

BecomeAnXcoder

"Bert Altenburg, author of AppleScript for Absolute Starters, in co-operation with Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin, has released a book for newcomers to Cocoa programming using Objective-C and XCode."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 xcode · Cocoa · programming · tutorial · osx · mac · development · introduction · ebook · free

http://www.cocoalab.com/?q=becomeanxcoder - cached - mail it - history

WikipediaVision (beta)

"Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 wikipedia · visualization · maps · mashup · google · googlemaps

http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ - cached - mail it - history

NetworkX

"NetworkX (NX) is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · graph · visualization · network · library · programming · networkx

https://networkx.lanl.gov/wiki - cached - mail it - history

Monkey-patching is Part of the DIY Culture

"Anyone who has had an experience in a less-flexible language or caught in a hard place trying to debug a closed-source library can appreciate how liberating it is to take matters into your own hands [and] fix your own problem"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ruby · programming · open_classes · closed-source · monkey-patching

http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2008/03/14/monkey-patching-is-part-of-the-diy-culture - cached - mail it - history

Stronger Validators for the Django Admin

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · programming · validation · webdev

http://blog.capstrat.com/articles/stronger-validators-for-the-django-admin/ - cached - mail it - history

The Total Growth of Open Source

"the total amount of source code as well as the total number of open source projects is growing at an exponential rate.... Our work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential rate."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 OpenSource · research · growth · exponential · economics · expansion · source

http://www.riehle.org/publications/2008/the-total-growth-of-open-source/ - cached - mail it - history

Biosimilarity: Naming as infection

"Language co-creation is a fundamental human activity. This perspective, by the way, is what prevents me from having a lot of faith in the current ontology efforts of web 3.0. Any given ontology will be out of date before it has enough mass to be useful"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 programming · conway · language · ebnf · naming · scope · ontology

http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com/2008/03/naming-as-dialectic.html - cached - mail it - history

Special Ops for Django by Glenn Franxman at HackerMojo.com

"The gist of it is that I've added a few new views and a single function decorator that you can use to unleash the additional functionality within the admin."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · admin · specialops · python · webdev · customization

http://hackermojo.com/mt-static/archives/2008/02/django-special-ops.html - cached - mail it - history

FreeBSD 7.0 review

"7.0 has been widely anticipated as the release that FreeBSD fans can have confidence in. I wish I could say that FreeBSD 7.0 lived up to the hype. I've long since lost the hope of returning to FreeBSD as a desktop or server operating system"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 freebsd · review · 7.0 · critique · OS · opensource · bsd

http://www.softwareinreview.com/bsd/freebsd_7.0_review.html - cached - mail it - history

dvtm || dynamic virtual terminal manager

"dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs like vim, mutt, cmus or irssi."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 linux · console · shell · windowmanager · tiling · manager · screen · commandline · cli

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ - cached - mail it - history

Why your Flash website sucks - glyphobet • глыфобет • γλυφοβετ

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 flash · usability · webdesign · web · critique · accessibility · searchability · standards

http://glyphobet.net/blog/?p=206 - cached - mail it - history