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.
March 2009
32 posts
Smashed my iPhone glass screen. Astonishingly it still works.
Smashed my iPhone glass screen. Astonishingly, it still works, though itlloks like it’s been through a nuclear war.
Optimizing Rails Resource Usage →
Upgrading to Capistrano 2 →
cap2 broke my rails1 app recipes. this fixes it, if I ever have to do it again.
Programming Nu →
another programming language to check out.
HackageDB: gitit →
a vcs-backed (darcs or git repository) wiki system written in haskell.
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.
Raphaël—JavaScript Library →
nice javascript graphical library by a russian hacker from australia
Factor →
yet another programming language to learn. I blame Zed Shaw.
mysql-php-migrations →
Simple command-line database migration tool for multi-developer PHP/MySQL projects.
Alpha quality code, afaik.
GNU Screen: Working with the Scrollback Buffer →
MySQL - Simple ways to avoid filesort →
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
Disco →
A map-reduce framework in erlang and python
Building readline 5.2 on OS X Leopard →
if I ever have to do that again, save myself 30 minutes of googling
flip →
ASCII text converstion between UNIX, Macintosh, MS-DOS
Erlang resources
Erlang MySQL Driver, Reloaded
Compiling Erlang on Leopard
Erlang Plists, source
erlang book
Writing a Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python →
Higher-Order Perl →
great perl book.
960 Grid System →
css-based liquid grid system
High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL →
very interesting analysis of what it takes to do massive data processing with mysql
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! →
XSPF Web Music Player (Flash) →
always useful.
Lightweight Rails-style MVC router for PHP →
might come in handy.
DataMapper →
An alternative to ActiveRecord. Looks interesting.
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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.
EmacsWiki: Php Mode
If you use emacs and code php…
EmacsWiki: Php Mode
Ditz
Ditz filebased distributed bugtracker by William Morgan
emacs ditz mode
Tiling window managers
xmonad, wmii (also see ruby-wmii).
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$
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EZBoard Migrate →
My first github release. Woo.