Linklog for August 2008
August 30, 2008
August 26, 2008
- How to sew on a button properly
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I suck at this.
August 22, 2008
- 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code [via] ¶
- TQL : A Standard Syntax For Multi-Tag Queries [via] ¶
August 20, 2008
- How to unit-test code that interacts with a database ¶
- Wide Awake Developers: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
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To read.
August 18, 2008
- InfoQ: Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture
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Domain driven design as successfully used on Guardian.co.uk.
- How Maatkit benefits from test-driven development
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All quite true.
August 16, 2008
- You Have to Experience It
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“I’ve noticed that frequently in technical discussions, the strongest disagreements seem to come from people with little to no actual experience with the technology they’re arguing against. How can that be?”
August 14, 2008
- How to watch DVDs on your Wii
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Stuff like this is one of the reasons I bought Twilight Princess.
- Adam @ Heroku. Don’t Fear the URLs
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Here’s something I really wish I could do in AFK: unify URL routing and controllers.
- huge and important news: free licenses upheld (Lessig Blog)
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This is fantastic news, even if the mechanism stings of a little irony.
- removing outdated ssh fingerprints from known_hosts with sed or ... ssh-keygen
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Useful!
August 13, 2008
- ‘Major discovery’ from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution - MIT News Office ¶
- Multithreaded FIFO Gate
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This Python recipe looks as if it might be something I’ll need soon enough.
- Stevey’s Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
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It’s all there in the title. The body’s the icing, but worth reading.
August 12, 2008
- Year’s 10 Best Application UIs (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
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I disagree with him on lightboxes: they’re only bad if overused, but they’re a great way of grabbing attention when you really need to. Good otherwise, though.
- Beyond Technical Debt
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On encouraging behaviour to avoid its accumulation.
- Strategy: Drop Memcached, Add More MySQL Servers
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Quoting one of the comments as it’s a good summary of the gist: “The article in it’s own right, is good, but not because it says to drop memcached, but because it implies that you should evaluate your system and what would work best for it, rather than just slapping whatever you read some other site did in there and hoping for the best.”
August 8, 2008
- best of craigslist : It’s me! Every girl ever.
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I’ve encountered elements of all of this at various times in my life but never all at the same time. We’re all flawed, kid, so be nice to one another.
- Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design Inspiration
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Interface design patterns.
- High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition errata
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Haven’t read the book yet, but it’s sitting there ready for me to do so.
- FireGPG [via] ¶
- Git Magic ¶
- Good Math, Bad Math: Encryption, Privacy, and You ¶
- Beyond REST, or Beyond XMPP? Both? The Q&A [via] ¶
August 5, 2008
- Charles’ Rules of Argument
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I must remember these!
- Spartan programming [via] ¶