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E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research (EWD 637)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:18:01 +0200

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research (EWD 637)

Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:32:51 +0200

Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large

Optimize browser rendering | Google

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:55:30 +0200

Optimize browser rendering | Google:

The important lesson is that CSS engines evaluate each rule from right to left. So eg CSS rules that end with a tag selector are very inefficient.

RailsConf 2010: David Heinemeier Hansson (via OreillyMedia)

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:18:09 +0200

RailsConf 2010: David Heinemeier Hansson (via OreillyMedia)

Rails 3.0 release candidate released

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:44:02 +0200

Rails 3.0 release candidate released

As an intro to Go, Rob Pike quickly explains what went wrong...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:42:07 +0200

As an intro to Go, Rob Pike quickly explains what went wrong with the mainstream programming languages. via

Calm technology

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:21:54 +0200

Calm technology:

Information overload and attention scarcity seen in 1996 by men from Xerox PARC labs.

A few git tips you didn't know about

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:18:48 +0200

A few git tips you didn't know about:

MIslav shares some tips, “git log —oneline —decorate” FTW.

Productivity Guaranteed | Adam Spooner

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:56:41 +0200

Productivity Guaranteed | Adam Spooner:

Remember self-control and focus?

"Though I maintain Tokyo Cabinet, I don’t add new feature to TC. I don’t think that Kyoto..."

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:18:57 +0200

“Though I maintain Tokyo Cabinet, I don’t add new feature to TC. I don’t think that Kyoto Cabinet is the full successor of TC. In fact, TC is strongly optimized and much faster than KC in most cases. When parallel processors with more than 8 cores are popular, the market value of KC will exceed that of TC.”

- Mikio Hirabayashi

Very simple EventMachine-based SMTP sinkhole that just prints the messages to stdout

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:35:40 +0200

Very simple EventMachine-based SMTP sinkhole that just prints the messages to stdout

The Ruby Toolbox

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:20:54 +0200

The Ruby Toolbox:

(via basti)

Slightly Obtrusive JavaScript

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:41:07 +0200

Slightly Obtrusive JavaScript:

A good idea: prefix classes and ids with “js-” when that DOM element is to be touched with JavaScript.

FireQuery: a Firebug extension for jQuery development

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:57:08 +0200

FireQuery: a Firebug extension for jQuery development:

jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and DOM inspector

attached jQuery datas are first class citizens

elements in jQuery collections are highlighted on hover

jQuerify: enables you to inject jQuery into any web page

jQuery Lint: enables you to inject jQuery Lint into page being loaded automatically (great for ad-hoc code validation)

via

Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal?

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:03:12 +0200

Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal?

html5test

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:03:40 +0200

html5test:

Test your browser’s capabilities.

The UI in the context of space

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:46:00 +0200

An amazing presentation by John Underkoffler. src

etckeeper

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:26:00 +0200

etckeeper:

etckeeper allows the contents of /etc be easily stored in Version Control System (VCS) repository. It hooks into apt to automatically commit changes to /etc when packages are installed or upgraded.

By default it uses bzr, but you can edit /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf and change it to git. You use with commands such as `sudo etckeeper commit “Changed apache configuration to allow rainbows”’.

Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:18:47 +0200

Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast:

html5watch:

Some great notes by Thomas Fuchs. He points out several counterintuitive and arcane peculiarities of WebKit’s rendering of neat new CSS3 features.

dcrec1’s kilt at master - GitHub Kilt looks for new...

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:23:00 +0200

dcrec1’s kilt at master - GitHub

Kilt looks for new activities in all your Pivotal Tracker projects and displays them with Growl/Libnotify/Snarl, so you are up-to-date with everything is happening.

Just set this up, works great. It’s useful as it keeps you on top of activities - Tracker doesn’t send you an email when somebody starts or finishes a feature, for example.