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Amazon announced premium for-pay support packages for its core infrastructure services. S3, EC2, SQS. One-on-one support for AWS customers (24/7 via phone for gold level) as well as a guaranteed 1 hour response time and new client-side diagnostic tools.
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Alazy developer is also usually one who will try and keep a project focussed on its core goals
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Amazon Web Services publishes our most up-to-the-minute information on service availability in the table below.
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In/Out let everyone set their current status (“Working on the Affiliate Program” or “Preparing for my presentation on Friday”), plus In/Out allowed you to make journal entries for the things you’ve finished
Archive | April, 2008
links for 2008-04-18
April 18, 2008
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links for 2008-04-17
April 17, 2008
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Sun pushed out a “near final” version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday.
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mod_rails mimics the min/max process pooling behavior of Apache, and addresses startup overhead in a clever way.
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Twitter sent over 10,000 people to Mahalo and this month we’re on track to have–wait for it–20,000 folks visit Mahalo from Twitter.
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Enter the addresses of the papers you’d like to receive, download the result to the desktop and combine the lot by appending the pages into one big PDF file
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Tired of spam? reCAPTCHA Mailhide helps you protect your inbox by asking people to solve a reCAPTCHA before they can view your email address.
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twitter iphone client
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git rails black and red t-shirts
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April 16, 2008
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Checklist for Greatness. Based on David Allen’s book Getting Things Done.
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Just remember: you’re not a ‘dummy,’ no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who–though technically expert–couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.
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The InnoDB Plug-in 1.0 for MySQL 5.1 adds advanced capabilities to InnoDB, the popular, fast, reliable, and proven storage engine for MySQL
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Flickr. Or Picasa. Or Del.icio.us, Digg, or Yelp. The brand-new option to import stories into your Mini-Feed.
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Effortless synchronization, backup & sharing.
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This tutorial explains how to import a new project into git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers.
links for 2008-04-15
April 15, 2008
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# Loves To Code
# Gets Things Done
# Continuously Refactors Code
# Uses Design Patterns
# Writes Tests
# Leverages Existing Code
# Focuses on Usability
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Import contacts from AOL, gmail, Yahoo, Linkedin and Outlook and easily exporrt.
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There are VCs will give $20k to a startup that has nothing more than the founders, and that will give $2 million to a startup that’s already taking off, but there aren’t enough investors who will give $200k to a startup that seems very promising.
links for 2008-04-14
April 14, 2008
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Create page turning publications and share them online. Get noticed and captivate your audience with interactive online brochures, magazines, portfolio’s and more…
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export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file
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5 Minute Guide to the Java Amazon Associates Web Service API
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Twitter Clients: Twitter, Pocket Tweets, Twitterific, Twhirl
Twitter Search: Tweet Scan, Quotably, TwitterBuzz
Twitter and RSS: Twitterfeed, LoudTwitter, TwitThis Feedflare
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OpenMac is a configuration of PC hardware capable of running unmodified OS X Leopard kernels. We will preinstall Leopard so you can begin to use your computer right out of the box.
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An introduction to Django tutorial given at PyCon, March 13th, 2008.
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The reasoning: In order to use Firefox, you need to be confident enough to download and use a browser that wasn’t the default when you first turned on your computer.
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Nerve and IFC.com devoted an enormous amount of time, manpower, monetary resources, server space and posh catered lunches to the pursuit of ranking the boob tube’s finest sketch comedy offerings
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we introduced snapshot functionality: you ask the EC2 to make a snapshot of your volume and store it into Amazon S3
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Using the Google Spreadsheets API
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Techmeme for twitter. The latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.
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“you wouldn’t close down a successful world, and if it’s unsuccessful, nobody cares”
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Storing data and using Google Datastore isn’t difficult, but it is a pretty hefty paradigm shift, especially if you’ve never left RDBMS-land.
links for 2008-04-13
April 13, 2008
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command line twits and an api wrapper
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Sun will use the MySQL Conference to release MySQL 5.1, an upgrade that adds several new features to make the database: partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering.
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Delete duplicate lines tool lets you delete duplicate lines from a list.
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FriendFeed – desktop application ala Twhirl
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Create page turning publications and share them online. Get noticed and captivate your audience with interactive online brochures, magazines, portfolio’s and more…
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export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file
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5 Minute Guide to the Java Amazon Associates Web Service API
links for 2008-04-11
April 11, 2008
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Use our on-time prediction engine to help you book your flights.
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Java took cheap Unix processes and made them expensive. To compensate, it provided primitives for multithreading.
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Play with sliders and color pickers, untill you obtain a super-cool stripe tile
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ustomize your spinner by clicking on it
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C has fewer, more elegant libraries than Java? Both languages, from a syntax standpoint, are fairly terse. You could no more write an entire program in C using only C-language keywords than you could in Java.
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We have been growing pretty substantially. We are now up to 9,000 developers, and
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Time to develop using factories took 2.1 to 5.3 times longer compared to regular constructors
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The highest ranked Forbes 400 member with an MBA is number 22, Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike. There are only four MBAs in the top 50. What you notice in the Forbes 400 are a lot of people with technical backgrounds. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison
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FriendFeed’s founders are Silicon Valley standouts. Buchheit joined Google in 1999 and is credited with coming up with the company’s famous “Don’t Be Evil” motto. He met Sanjeev Singh, when the two of them worked together on creating Gmail.
links for 2008-04-10
April 10, 2008
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Rather than divert attention from Google App Engine itself, we thought it better to just take HuddleChat down.
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This is Engelbart’s Dilemma. His systems were far more efficient and potentially more powerful human-computer interfaces, but they were extremely difficult for novice users.
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2) Let users get before they give. Most exchange or free sites makes users give before then can get. John says this is backwards, and slows growth At BookMooch, users get something first. Then they give.
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A modern PHP architecture, strikingly similar to the EJB 2.0 model, is shown below
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If you try to avoid using XML, Wicket could be your choice. A richer extensions library also gives a plus to Wicket. Tapestry is in a period of transition as Tapestry V5 promises many enhancements over V4.1, but there is no backward-compatibility.
links for 2008-04-09
April 9, 2008
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Looking through demo apps built with Google App Engine, the only one that seems more than half-baked is HuddleChat, written by Google employees. But HuddleChat is just a feature-for-feature clone of 37signals’s Campfire.
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startups using Google App Engine unwittingly put control of their businesses in the sole discretionary hands of Google and unwitting consumers “share” all of their personal, proprietary data with Google, whether they want to or not.
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GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly pushed out privately to only the team members.
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it’s ridiculous to claim that 37signals somehow owns the concept of web-based group chat
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rails-core ripped off the idea and probably most of the workings for Campfire from NextApp Echo2 ChatClient Demo. I know this because I was in the rails-core IRC channel and I showed them how cool this Echo2 framework was, including that chat demo.
