April 2009
THE DAFT PUNK CONSOLE →
craig:
forgot who sent this my way…
Cool song to mess with.. addictive interface also.
Chinese version of Google Maps →
Really impressive.. the entire city appears to be drawn in a similar style to SimCity 2000. :-O
Fix Your Timestep! →
Pretty clever.. it looks like it beats the pants off the Euler method.
TDD Anti-Patterns →
The Software Craftsman's Ethic →
This looks like a pretty interesting discussion group.
Jason Scott is saving Geocities: Lessons So Far →
200,000 sites saved so far…
“Stop all the downloadin’, turn off ICQ,
Prevent the paperclip from...”
– Bear [Geocities] like a soldier, to the stage | MetaFilter
Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores →
Google Maps Typography →
F’king awesome! This takes some real dedication.
jack:
dhotson:
“The rationale for the non-resolution or won’t-fix status of these bugs is pretty sad/hilarious, or as I prefer, “sadlarious”.”
— Java — Jason’s blog
Err, while “sadlarious” is cute, we already have a word for this: tragicomic.
Heh.. I thought you were making it up. I can’t believe there’s an actual word for it. Awesome! :D
NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome →
I’ll have to try this setup out.. I hadn’t heard of PHP-FPM before.
Jersey: RESTful Web services made easy →
This is actually pretty neat.. it looks pretty easy to write RESTful web services in Java.
Extending the Grizzly HTTP Runtime →
I should look more into this for writing high performance HTTP based servers in Java. I wonder if Grizzly works with Scala..
“The rationale for the non-resolution or won’t-fix status of these bugs is pretty...”
– Java — Jason’s blog
Combining Cufón and @font-face →
Seems like a pretty decent approach to getting decent fonts to render reliably in browsers.
“๏[-ิิ_•ิ]๏”
– unicode faces (unifaces) on Twitter
Mending The Bitter Absence of Reasoned Technical... →
Trinity 50 Years Later →
grim:
Bjork + A Tribe Called Quest ~ Stressed Out...
Stunting a Framework →
Really insightful stuff. A great read.
Sarien.net - Instant adventure gaming →
Sweet! Old sierra adventure games in the browser.
What is the best comment in source code you have... →
IE6 Update →
“IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update.” .. pretty cool hack.
Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper... →
“It’s only about a 4- or 5-hour read: beyond the reach of most...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Have you ever legalized marijuana?
PragDave: Twitter Should Move Away from Ruby →
The engineers at Twitter made totally sensible decisions. It’s good to see Dave Thomas giving them some respect.
historical del.icio.us - a set on Flickr →
A small piece of internet history.
Precision Hacking →
Heh, kinda cool.
Ruby style guide →
Christian Neukirchen’s Ruby Style Guide.
What’s Hot on GitHub - April 2009 →
Some pretty cool ruby projects on github.. will check these out.
Dynamic languages on Google App Engine - an... →
All the details on running dynamic languages for the JVM such as JRuby and Scala on Google App Engine.
git add --patch and --interactive →
Just used git interactive to stage some hunks… it was pretty sweet.
Bashreduce →
Seems so wrong… but so awesome.
Erlang Efficiency Guide →
Good to know if I ever work on an Erlang project.
$.event.special.hover →
jQuery plugin for detecting hover intent. Kinda cool idea.
The Day MLK Died →
Such a tragedy. :’(
“One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on...”
– Jeff Bezos (via levi)
