July 2010
3 posts
The Changelog, Episode 0.3.0 - Sencha Touch →
Wynn caught up with David Kaneda to talk about mobile web app development with Sencha Touch. Items mentioned in the show:
Sencha Touch - HTML5 mobile application framework
WebKitBits - David’s Tumblr for the latest in WebKit news and tips
jQTouch - jQuery plugin for…
Jesse Lamb is Not My Lawyer: It's okay to take a... →
When you have your own business or you’re working on a startup, it’s essentially a 24-hour job, especially at the beginning. When you’re not actively “producing,” you’re thinking about the business, planning, or wrestling with the latest choices you have to make. The idea of a “day off” feels as…
June 2010
5 posts
First Teaser For "The Social Network" movie on... →
What an ass.
Heavy Metal Pizza Promoter →
May 2010
13 posts
“1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage...”
– One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Marco.org: The iPad doesn’t need to do everything →
Rationalizing the purchase of an iPad usually includes a few of these:
I’ll carry it around most of the time.
I’ll be able to replace my laptop with it.
I’ll be able to replace my Kindle with it.
I’ll bring it on trips instead of my laptop.
I’ll respond to email with it.
I’ll get work done…
Suprizingly good
truman101site:
-Mike X.
Daily Acid: Steve Job's And Bill Gate's Comics →
Amazing.
# node.js on freenode
spoob: technoweenie; seriously, you should look up how fast nodejs is... :)
technoweenie: yea i was getting about 5k r/s, pretty impressive
spoob: you should be getting around 20k r/s?
technoweenie: really?
technoweenie: oh wait i only ran 5k requests
Coffee. →
“The Sheath The isolating interface between your team’s (good) code, and the...”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
“Refuctoring The process of taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a...”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
“Refuctoring The process of taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a...”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
“Pokemon Exception Handling For when you just gotta catch ’em all!”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
“Hot Potato / Hot Potatoes A fun way to pronounce http:// and https://.”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
“DOCTYPE Decoration:
When web designers add a proper DOCTYPE declaration at the...”
– New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
April 2010
29 posts
WatchThere are no words.
Top 10 Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite... →
op 10 Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips
iPad Fail [PIC] →
Video: NoSQL Smackdown Part 3
thechangelog:
The third installment of our NoSQL Smackdown video series asks if only the world’s largest sites have big data needs. Werner says the amount of social interaction on today’s web means even low volume sites have to deal with a lot of data.
[Download]
[Part 1]
[Part 2]
[Complete event audio]
Does this hurt Appcelerator?
travisswicegood:
I’m trying to parse this.
Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g.,...
He's everywhere. →
“You don’t need anymore than six coders and that makes today’s world...”
– What’s in a name? Six coders can do anything and there is nothing six coders can’t do. - The 6coders Blog
“Computers, by and large, are still designed for geeks. This is why we all buy...”
– Eric Sink
Shy Ronnie →
Phake: M/Rake for PHP →
thechangelog:
It’s always refreshing to see language communities learning from eachother. PHP now as its own clone of GNU Make and Ruby’s Rake: Phake.
Automation Ahoy!
Phake supports task grouping, before/after blocks, and task descriptions. Requires PHP >= 5.3 (for closures).
Here’s a simple task definiton:
task('dependency1', function() {
echo "i will run...
“Besides, who doesn’t speak English?”
– Safe from the Losing Fight » wchar_t: Unsafe at any size
Awesome! Water Droplet Bouncing on... →
Denied: Sinatra for Python →
thechangelog:
If you’re a Pythonist who’s been longing for some Sinatra action, then look no further. Denied is the next generation Python micro-web-framework, wrapped in a single portable library.
Let’s run a simple routed app on port 8080:
from deny import *
@route('/')
def hello():
return 'Hello World!'
if __name__ == '__main__':
run()
It’s a beautiful thing.
[Source on...
Github Explorer: A GitHub Visualization
thechangelog:
We are constantly amazed by the relationships forged in and around Open Source software. Franck Cuny and his team at Linkfluence put together a slew of data maps of the many relationships on GitHub.
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“By popular demand we’re posting the video behind Episode 0.1.8 NoSQL Smackdown...”
– The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.: Video: NoSQL Smackdown Part 1
Caterpillar Cowboy: The inside story on how I... →
GigaOm just posted about the $350,000 angel round we just raised. Here’s the inside story how we raised the money.
Back in January, we raised about $150,000 from friends & family - my mentor from DreamIt Ventures, my old Amazon VP, my parents, a friend from college, a bizdev guy I met at …