April 2009
15 posts
goddammit firefox, stop eating my tabs when you crash. I don’t have time to go through history and reopen sixty tabs that I actually need.
Apr 1st
March 2009
32 posts
Smashed my iPhone glass screen. Astonishingly it still works.
Mar 26th
Smashed my iPhone glass screen. Astonishingly, it still works, though itlloks like it’s been through a nuclear war.
Mar 26th
Optimizing Rails Resource Usage →
Mar 23rd
Upgrading to Capistrano 2 →
cap2 broke my rails1 app recipes. this fixes it, if I ever have to do it again.
Mar 23rd
Programming Nu →
another programming language to check out.
Mar 23rd
HackageDB: gitit →
a vcs-backed (darcs or git repository) wiki system written in haskell.
Mar 23rd
mysql tools
Maatkit: A toolkit that provides advanced functionality for MySQL Drizzle: High-performance microkernel DBMS - a fork of mysql, in fact. Both heavily recommended by eonarts, and she’s one hell of a dba.
Mar 23rd
Raphaël—JavaScript Library →
nice javascript graphical library by a russian hacker from australia
Mar 23rd
Factor →
yet another programming language to learn. I blame Zed Shaw.
Mar 23rd
mysql-php-migrations →
Simple command-line database migration tool for multi-developer PHP/MySQL projects. Alpha quality code, afaik.
Mar 23rd
GNU Screen: Working with the Scrollback Buffer →
Mar 23rd
MySQL - Simple ways to avoid filesort →
Mar 23rd
flash debugging
hook into firebug others: ReflexUtil FxSpy xmlobjectoutput xray Alcon LuminicBox.Log debugit print_r sock4log flash-thunderbolt FlashTracer KapInspect alternate flash versions flashswitcher via ntt.cc
Mar 23rd
Disco →
A map-reduce framework in erlang and python
Mar 23rd
Building readline 5.2 on OS X Leopard →
if I ever have to do that again, save myself 30 minutes of googling
Mar 23rd
flip →
ASCII text converstion between UNIX, Macintosh, MS-DOS
Mar 23rd
Erlang resources
Erlang MySQL Driver, Reloaded Compiling Erlang on Leopard Erlang Plists, source erlang book
Mar 23rd
Writing a Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python →
Mar 23rd
Higher-Order Perl →
great perl book.
Mar 23rd
960 Grid System →
css-based liquid grid system
Mar 23rd
High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL →
very interesting analysis of what it takes to do massive data processing with mysql
Mar 23rd
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! →
Mar 23rd
XSPF Web Music Player (Flash) →
always useful.
Mar 23rd
Lightweight Rails-style MVC router for PHP →
might come in handy.
Mar 23rd
DataMapper →
An alternative to ActiveRecord. Looks interesting.
Mar 23rd
2 tags
rails exception monitoring
Exceptional and Hoptoad two exception monitoring services. I’ve been using Rick Olson’s exception_logger plugin, quite useful and has the advantage of being self-hosted.
Mar 23rd
EmacsWiki: Php Mode
If you use emacs and code php… EmacsWiki: Php Mode
Mar 23rd
Ditz
Ditz filebased distributed bugtracker by William Morgan emacs ditz mode
Mar 23rd
Tiling window managers
xmonad, wmii (also see ruby-wmii).
Mar 23rd
5 tags
If your site is getting hammered by bots scanning for php file vulnerabilities, just add the following before your apache mongrel cluster rewrite rule: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$
Mar 5th
3 tags
EZBoard Migrate →
My first github release. Woo.
Mar 4th