Charles' Rules of Argument
I must remember these!
Beyond REST, or Beyond XMPP? Both? The Q&A
Good Math, Bad Math: Encryption, Privacy, and You
Git Magic
FireGPG
High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition errata
Haven’t read the book yet, but it’s sitting there ready for me to do so.
Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design Inspiration
Interface design patterns.
best of craigslist : It's me! Every girl ever.
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.
Strategy: Drop Memcached, Add More MySQL Servers
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.
Beyond Technical Debt
On encouraging behaviour to avoid its accumulation.
Year's 10 Best Application UIs (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
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.
Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
It’s all there in the title. The body’s the icing, but worth reading.
Multithreaded FIFO Gate
This Python recipe looks as if it might be something I’ll need soon enough.
'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution - MIT News Office
Removing outdated ssh fingerprints from known_hosts with sed or... ssh-keygen
Useful!
huge and important news: free licenses upheld (Lessig Blog)
This is fantastic news, even if the mechanism stings of a little irony.
Adam @ Heroku. Don't Fear the URLs
Here’s something I really wish I could do in AFK: unify URL routing and controllers.
How to watch DVDs on your Wii
Stuff like this is one of the reasons I bought Twilight Princess.
You Have to Experience It
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?
How Maatkit benefits from test-driven development
All quite true.
InfoQ: Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture
Domain driven design as successfully used on Guardian.co.uk.
Wide Awake Developers: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
To read.
How to unit-test code that interacts with a database
TQL : A Standard Syntax For Multi-Tag Queries
7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code
How to sew on a button properly
I suck at this. :-(