Inklings: 2007-03

mod_evasive is an evasive manoeuvres module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It is also designed to be a detection and network management tool, and can be easily configured to talk to ipchains, firewalls, routers, and etcetera. mod_evasive presently reports abuses via email and syslog facilities.

Very cool.

aranha

🕑 2007-03-07T12:46:16+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Lua/FastCGI based web application framework

Unix shell script for removing duplicate files

🕑 2007-03-09T14:22:07+00:00; via diveintomark.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Should work with a couple of small tweaks on FreeBSD.

FDUPES

🕑 2007-03-09T14:22:55+00:00; via diveintomark.org; try the Wayback Machine | edit

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

🕑 2007-03-12T13:50:40+00:00; via tomayko.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' e-mails

🕑 2007-03-12T14:44:11+00:00; via blog.moybella.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!

RESTful transactions (a speculation)

🕑 2007-03-13T09:28:24+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Been dealing with this at work too.

Why a career in computer programming sucks

🕑 2007-03-13T09:30:15+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Sigh.

Test Driven Development

🕑 2007-03-13T10:10:21+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A pre-publication copy of James Shore’s forthcoming book ‘The Art of Agile Development’. Good overview, even if you’ve not interested in XP or agile development in general.

Practical rc.d scripting in BSD

🕑 2007-03-13T12:56:18+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A Note To Employers: 8 Things Intelligent People, Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happily

🕑 2007-03-13T14:11:12+00:00; via www.forgetfoo.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

If only…

Desktop WallPaper: White Trees

🕑 2007-03-14T14:10:52+00:00; via www.dekorte.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Sweet! New work wallpaper.

Resource and Representation

🕑 2007-03-14T14:35:04+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Puzzled why Bill didn’t publish this in the first place. Good clear explaination of what resources and respresentations are, and it’s nice to see my slightly glib though far from insincere explaination of ‘hypertext as the engine of application state’ confirmed.

ROA Maturity Model

🕑 2007-03-14T15:25:46+00:00; via wanderingbarque.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Hah!

Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine

🕑 2007-03-15T15:00:08+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

UK Judge Rules That Selling Consumers Cheaper CDs Is Illegal

🕑 2007-03-22T09:07:39+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Capitalists are only capitalists as long as it’s to their advantage. As soon as it’s not, they turn into corporate socialists.

PHP: Training wheels without the bike

🕑 2007-03-22T11:57:04+00:00; via blog.moybella.net; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Too damned true.

PHC: The Open Source PHP Compiler

🕑 2007-03-22T12:41:01+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

When it’s done, it’ll be capable of compiling PHP down to native code.

REST Tips: Prefer following links over URI construction

🕑 2007-03-25T03:35:26+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Block Helpers and DRY Views in Rails

🕑 2007-03-25T03:36:27+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

One of the nicest things about PHP is custom tags. It’s nice to be able to do much the same thing in Ruby with blocks.

Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'

🕑 2007-03-25T03:51:32+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

1001fonts.com

🕑 2007-03-25T03:52:51+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

REST Tip: Deep etags give you more benefits

🕑 2007-03-25T03:59:29+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

How to build and use ETags for maximum effect.

Rules For JavaScript Library Authors

🕑 2007-03-25T03:59:59+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Right on, captain!

Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists

🕑 2007-03-25T04:00:18+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Annoying spammers with pf and spamd

🕑 2007-03-25T04:01:18+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

This is brilliantly evil!

Dijkstra's "A review of the 1977 Turing Award Lecture by John Backus" (PDF)

🕑 2007-03-25T05:19:12+00:00; via scienceblogs.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Didn’t know about this paper. Go read Backus’s lecture too while you’re at it.

An Experiment with pi-calculus and Programming Language Design

🕑 2007-03-25T05:22:18+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A plea for Sanity

🕑 2007-03-25T05:44:47+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

This should be read by anybody contemplating using XML namespaces. It explains how to use them without being a bozo.

Why Functional Programming Matters

🕑 2007-03-25T05:45:47+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

A classic, go read it if you haven’t already.

Mein Sweeper

🕑 2007-03-25T22:25:16+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

To evil!

Free Acorn Archimedes games

🕑 2007-03-25T22:32:22+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Kick ass! ArcElite and Hamsters are there, along with Phaethon and a bunch of other great ones. Now all I have to do is figure out where I can get an Archimedes emulator that’ll run on FreeBSD…

Masters of the Universe

🕑 2007-03-25T22:54:58+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

About the making of the single best game ever create: Elite.

SVK/gettext Issues

🕑 2007-03-30T15:28:56+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

FFS! If this is what’s been causing SVK to dump core each time I do anything with it, I’ll be mightily pissed off.

RIPE 54 in Tallinn

🕑 2007-03-30T16:47:04+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit