October 2007
20 posts
Apple = the new evil empire? (kottke.org) →
I’ve been thinking that Apple becoming the antagonist was inevitable; indeed the snarkiest of chronic haters have been reverse migrating for a few years
Architecture is a Second Order Effect →
“Instead, we have tackled this problem by developing the most advanced...”
– Messing Around With Metadata - Open - Code - New York Times Blog
$ ack --thpppt
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U ack --thpppt!
ack is an awesome grep-like tool tweaked for recursively finding stuff in your source files
The Apache Portable Runtime does some weird trickery to define its API. Thusly, if you call apr_pool_destory, rather than apr_pool_destroy, you get a linker error rather than a compiler error. Do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.
15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part 1 |... →
Hawt
identity-matcher - Google Code →
Dopplr’s contact import (Twitter, GMail, hCard, etc.)
Thing Fish - LAIKA Open Source Software - Trac →
“ThingFish is a network-accessable, searchable, extensible datastore. It can be used to store chunks of data on the network in an application-independent way, associate the chunks with other chunks through metadata, and then search for the chunk you need later and fetch it again, all through a REST API over HTTP.” Sounds like CouchDB?
Rands In Repose: The Twitter Equilibrium →
Rands so gets Twitter.
“In my ongoing quest to make sure engineers wear as many hats as possible, the...”
– Rands In Repose: Coffee and Design
“Good design in our company doesn’t just sell products. Good design fosters...”
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Particletree » The Importance of Design in Business
