January 2008
Five whys - Joel on Software →
When something goes wrong, you ask why, again and again, until you ferret out the root cause. Then you fix the root cause, not the symptoms.
American Citizen Services - Traveling to Spain →
HEMA - online winkelen →
Holy crap that’s awesome. Wait about five seconds for it to start.
TED | Talks | David Gallo: Underwater... →
Just an amazing video of things that happen under the sea that you’ve probably never heard of.
Summit: The MakaluMedia Blog » Blog Archive »... →
This is a pretty stunningly-large RoR installation. Good job, guys!
DEVELOPER_OBJC_HOWTO - macfuse - Google Code →
How to use MacFUSE.framework in a Cocoa app.
New external links filter for Drupal | ted... →
Ted’s nice Drupal input filter for marking up off-site links with CSS.
FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View Entry - How can I... →
Movable Type: Important Update to Your Spam... →
cameron i/o articles - Web Clip Mint icon for your... →
A little more info on custom iPhone webclip icons.
HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons - Dan Dickinson: The... →
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Introduction to... →
Apple’s updated HIG for Leopard.
DCist: Colbert Portrait Hanging in National... →
This is just great.
YouTube - Video of Bill Gates last day at... →
This is actually pretty decently funny.
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
What a great idea — site-specific browsers for those tabs you keep around all the time.
Water main break closes North Side streets --... →
“It wouldn’t be surprising to see that that the weather played a role,” LaPorte said. “It went from very cold over the weekend to warmer temperatures that can cause weakness in the pipe.”
SIMILE | Exhibit 2.0 →
peterme.com :: Huh. →
Noodlings » Idle Hands →
With this patch, when a new update is found, it will check the userâs idle time and hold off showing the panel until a certain amount of time has elapsed. This minimizes the chance of the user being in the middle of something when the alert comes up.
cnewmark: "Man posts missing marsupial ad on... →
Carlson said the caller told police, “I may need to go to a psych ward, but I think I saw a kangaroo go by.”
Blame It On Steinski: Music. Copyright. Politics.... →
Hilarious.
Q&A: John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin : Rolling... →
Great interview with JPJ.
Gone Indie — Thought Palace →
Interesting thoughts on leaving Apple and going indie.
Meet me at South By Southwest! →
Just a note that I’ve officially (and finally) confirmed my registration for this year’s South By Southwest Interactive conference March 7-11 in Austin, Texas. This will be my third year straight at SXSW and I’m again very much looking forward to it. Two years ago I added Bonjour functionality to Pukka while I was at the conference and last year was my first conference after striking out on my...
macosxhints.com - Creating LDAP address book... →
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection :... →
PixFix: How Bob Staake Creates His Art →
This is amazing.
Twitter in review →
One service that I’ve absolutely come to love in the past year is Twitter. I was a bit skeptical of it at first when I was introduced to it at South By Southwest in March. I met Alex, formerly of DC and now one of Twitter’s engineers, and chatted about it a bit, plus lots of my friends were using it, but it just didn’t seem like it was worth any time that I would put in. I mean, I get blogs and...
What Are They Waiting For? →
RegexKit Framework →
Man, this is so hot.
New fswatch Script →
fswatch is a Ruby script that uses the built-in RubyCocoa bridge to access the new File System Events (FSEvents) framework added in Leopard and watches for filesystem modifications while a command is run.
Turkish Star Wars (1982) (eng. subtitles) →
Meerkat use case: iTunes at home, music anywhere →
I thought I’d take a moment to outline a sample use case for Meerkat, one that goes outside the normal scenarios that most people think of when (or if) they think of SSH tunneling. Since Meerkat supports app triggers and Bonjour, it goes above and beyond plain old SSH and can really be used in some innovative ways.
Suppose that you have a large iTunes music collection on your home Mac that you...