December 2009
1 post
Replica of "Time Bandits" Map →
Metropolis Design sells a replica of the map from “Time Bandits” for $100 (plus $10 shipping). WANT.
November 2008
1 post
May 2008
1 post
Sun xVM VirtualBox →
Sun’s made its first release of the open source virtualization environment VirtualBox since they acquired it. I wonder how it compares to commercial offerings like VMware and Parallels?
March 2008
1 post
It Should Be Free →
Well-known indie Mac software developer Daniel Jalkut responds to Leo Laporte’s recent comment that Pukka (a del.icio.us client for the Mac) “should be free”.
February 2008
1 post
Habemus Dialogum - We Have a Dialog →
The Things developers discuss the design considerations that went into a single dialog box, and how that UI evolved during the process.
January 2008
10 posts
If Rails Is A Ghetto, Please, Let Me Be Ghetto →
A response to some of the recent anti-Rails FUD. “Seriously, how stupid do you think we all are? … Do you really think that I and thousands of others can’t tell when something works and it doesn’t?” Good stuff.
Photos from The Library of Congress →
The Library of Congress has uploaded a collection of over 3,000 copyright-free photos to Flickr.
RulesofThumb.org →
Via Dooce.com, a web site that collects “Every Rule of Thumb on Earth in One Place!”
Laptop security: The Big Picture →
An extremely useful thread on laptop security, from the MacRumors forums.
CocoaCast →
A podcast for people who want to learn Cocoa, Objective-C, share their experience and resources.
The Semantic Web in 6 minutes →
An entertaining and fairly non-technical introduction to the Semantic Web and why it’s important.
Cool URIs for the Semantic Web →
The Resource Description Framework RDF allows the users to describe Web documents and resources from the real world—people, organisations, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishing such descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) are very important, forming the link between RDF and the Web. This document presents guidelines for their effective use....
Cloud computing with Hadoop →
The latest approach to focusing lots of computing cycles on a problem is cloud computing, inspired in part by Google’s successful architecture and MapReduce software infrastructure. Hadoop is the produce of an Apache Lucene project that provides a Java-based software framework to distribute processing over a cluster of processors.
Amazon EC2: My 131 cents →
Dan Brickley writes about his preliminary experience with Amazon’s new “Elastic Compute Cloud” (EC2) web service.
December 2007
11 posts
Open Source, Books, and Open Source Books →
An interesting opinion piece by Greg Brown on his experience working on The Ruport Book, a free-content book using Ruport to generate reports with Ruby.
Fluid →
Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.
Pownce Goes Mobile! →
Seems to work fine on the iPhone, although you (obviously) can’t post files.
Amazon SimpleDB →
Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for...
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town →
Tiller’s rendition of a Christmas classic.
Programming Nu →
Nu is an interpreted object-oriented language. Its syntax comes from Lisp, but Nu is semantically closer to Ruby than Lisp. Nu is written in Objective-C and is designed to take full advantange of the Objective-C runtime and the many mature class libraries written in Objective-C. Nu code can fully interoperate with code written in Objective-C; messages can be sent to and from objects with no...
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks →
PC World - The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time →
I’m a little miffed that they included the Commodore 64 (my precious) in the list. But it’s a neat walk down memory lane for the over-30 nerd crowd.
Creating Sexy Stylesheets →
Being a CSS expert is more than just memorizing selectors. It’s also working to improve the maintainability and efficiency of your stylesheets, planning for the future and mastering your workflow. In this article Jina Bolton gives 10 CSS tips culled from surveys with 12 top designers.
FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby →
There’s now a listing for the book at Amazon.com. Whoohoo!
XQuartz →
The Xquartz project is providing more up-to-date (read: working) builds of the X11 server shipped with Mac OS X Leopard.
November 2007
24 posts
Ubiqutious task entry -- anywhere, anytime →
iNik describes how to add tasks to your OmniFocus inbox via Twitter.
Lineform →
Winner of a 2006 Apple Design Award, Lineform is the ideal Mac app for vector-based diagrams and illustrations. Useful features combine with a simple interface to create a wonderfully intuitive artistic process. Lineform has all of the most popular tools, including everything from freeform gradients to compositing effects, enabling you to create the designs you want without getting in your way...
Safari Microformats plugin →
The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
ack -- a grep replacement that ignores... →
This looks useful.
The Ludicrous JIT Compiler →
Ludicrous is a just-in-time compiler for Ruby 1.8. Though still in the experimental stage, its performance is roughly on par with YARV (better in some benchmarks, though that may change as more features are added).
7 of the Hardest Things I Learned About Writing... →
“I ♥ setting up a new Mac for a Windows refugee — like lifting them from their...”
– Merlin Mann, via Twitter
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) →
Mark Pilgrim’s take on the Amazon Kindle’s TOS.
When There’s No Toilet Paper: Avoiding a Descent... →
Hopefully, this has never happened to you. It can be among the scariest situations in which you’ll find yourself - parked on the throne only to discover that, yes, there’s no toilet paper.
A Roadmap to Spectacular GTD Failure →
A list of GTD anti-patterns.
Amazon: Reinventing the Book →
This week Jeff Bezos is releasing the Amazon Kindle, an electronic device that he hopes will leapfrog over previous attempts at e-readers and become the turning point in a transformation toward Book 2.0.
Time Machine for every Unix out there →
Using rsync, it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X’s new feature called Time Machine.
RSSin' Your SVN →
Subtlety is a little Camping mini-site that takes a public Subversion repository’s URL (starting with http:// or svn://) and gives you an RSS feed of the changes.
GreaseKit - User Scripting for all WebKit... →
GreaseKit is a SIMBL plugin, that adds Greasemonkey-like user scripting to Safari, Mailplane, Diet Pibb.app and all WebKit applications. Greasemonkey scripts are not 100% compatible with GreaseKit because Safari’s JavaScript implementation is not compatible with Firefox’s and GM_registerMenuCommand is not available in GreaseKit yet. Many scripts, however, will work in GreaseKit with...
Plugsuit · ∞labs →
PlugSuit is a plug-in enabler for Mac OS X; it helps “unofficial” plug-ins work seamlessly and lets you manage them. Unlike other plug-in enablers, it works in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Coding Horror: Don't Forget To Lock Your Computer →
I encourage my coworkers to lock their computers. Security, after all, is everyone’s business. But often gentle encouragement is not enough. Sometimes, more.. persuasive methods are necessary.
Rockabye Baby! - Transform your favorite rock... →
eigenclass - Changes in Ruby 1.9 →
I’ve only just started looking at Ruby 1.9, and there are some interesting and subtle changes in there.
Naked light
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Introducing Naked light. Non-destructive image editing. Node-based compositing. Live filters.High-end tools. And infinite resolution. It’s image editing, re-invented.
The F5 Key Is Not a Build Process →
If your “build process” is the F5 key, you have a problem. Get your build process out of the IDE and into a build script. That’s the first step on the road to build enlightenment.
Troubleshoot Port Forwarding with YouGetSignal →
This seems like a really handy tool for determining which ports are open on your network.
Splashup →
Splashup is a powerful web-based editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
Rucola, a RubyCocoa application builder →
Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps. It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake commands, eliminating the need to use XCode.
Monkeybars →
Monkeybars is a library that enables you to make use of Swing from JRuby, using the GUI editing tools you’re used to but writing your application logic in Ruby. With most editors you’ll never even have to look at the Java code.