April 2009
Oddments » Blog Archive » Database I/O and... →
There has been some great discussion lately about internal database schedulers and I/O handling on the Drizzle mailing list, and I thought I’d blog about it to summarize and see what others thought.
A beginners look at Drizzle - Getting around with... →
Assuming you have successfully compiled Drizzle, and you are ready to start for the first time, here are some beginner differences with those familiar with the current MySQL 5.1 GA version. Note: drizzle is actually an original fork of the 6.0.x codebase however the code looks very little like mysql anymore.
Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store | Gadget... →
The iPhone’s App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 20 percent of paid applications for free distribution.
30 Fresh and Promising Design Blogs to Follow →
2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development... →
My hard drive kicked the bucket recently. From scratch, here’s how I quickly got my Ruby web development environment into ship-shape form The Thoughtbot Way.
March 2009
google-caja - Google Code →
A source-to-source translator for securing Javascript-based web content
Headius: My Favorite Hotspot JVM Flags →
I probably start up a JVM a thousand times a day. Test runs, benchmark runs, bug confirmation, API exploration, or running actual apps. And in many of these runs, I use various JVM switches to tweak performance or investigate runtime metrics. Here’s a short list of my favorite JVM switches (note these are Hotspot/OpenJDK/SunJDK switches, and may or may not work on yours. Apple JVM is...
The Simple Dollar » Most Time Management Is... →
Over the last few years, I’ve read a ton of time management books and tried out literally hundreds of systems and standalone ideas for maximizing the effectiveness of my time, particularly in terms of my work.
Intro to Git →
In this article, I’ll give you a quick review of Git, an excellent version control system.
10 Excellent ToolTip Plugins with jQuery | Steve... →
7 jQuery Plugins to Manipulate TEXTAREAs | Steve... →
Diggin the TypeWatch
iPhone Development: Differences in Delegation →
The most obvious of these differences is that the concept of generic view controller classes is “baked in” to Cocoa Touch, but were added to Cocoa after it had been around for years.
Why MacRuby Matters (Present & Future) | Zen and... →
While MacRuby is a younger, lesser known implementation, it has the potential to become a game changer - at least for Mac developers.
Winstone Servlet Container →
Sometimes you want just a simple servlet container - without all the other junk - that just goes. This is where Winstone is best suited.
jchris's couchapp at master - GitHub →
Utilities to make standalone CouchDB application development simple
What in the heck is JSONP and why would you use... →
Side note: I use this technique alot and Im really hoping it’s not plugged up any time soon. JSONP (JSON with Padding) was created as a workaround to the cross domain problem.
facebook-actionscript-api - Google Code →
The Facebook Actionscript API provides an interface between the Facebook REST based API and Flash/Flex based applications.
Tutorial: A simple embedded Linux system →
This article begins a series of tutorials on embedded Linux system development contributed by noted ARM Linux kernel hackers Vincent Sanders and Daniel Silverstone. In the initial installment, the Simtec engineers describe how embedded devices differ from other computers, and how to build “the most basic system possible.”
[shell-fu:view-576]$ →
nice ssh username@remoteservername “tar cjf - -C /from/basedir/ dirtocopy” | tar xjvf - -C /to/dir/ ; sleep 120 ; shutdown -P now
[shell-fu:view-627]$ →
for file in `ls *.pdf`; do convert -verbose -colorspace RGB -resize 800 -interlace none -density 300 -quality 80 $file `echo $file | sed ‘s/.pdf$/.jpg/’`; done
Introducing JSTalk, an alternative to AppleScript →
JSTalk’s goal can described like this: JSTalk is to AppleScript, what Cocoa is to Carbon.
How to Downgrade iPhone Firmware 3.0 to 2.2.1... →
Sourcefire Network Security - Education Services... →
Sourcefire instructors educate security professionals around the world through instructor-led classroom training, custom courses that are unique to your environment, and onsite training at the customer’s premise. Each instructor-led class includes a reference course manual, hands-on training, lecture, labs, continental breakfast, lunch and beverages.
How to sync an iPhone with two (or more) Computers... →
How to sync an iPhone with one computer and manually manage music and videos on another
The APIs for the Sun Cloud: Wiki: Home — Project... →
This wiki specifies a RESTful API for creating and managing cloud resources, including compute, storage, and networking components. Usage of the API is via the HTTP protocol. The GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests are all used, although most tasks can be accomplished with GET and POST. Resource representations are in JSON. The API presupposes no particular structure in the URI space. The starting...
joehewitt's three20 at master - GitHub →
Three20 is an Objective-C library for iPhone developers
Ripdev: The iPhone Authority →
InstallerApp is a native Mac OS X application (soon — for Windows too) that allows you easily download applications from Installer and Cydia directly onto your computer, and install them to the iPhone connected with USB cable.
AWS Toolkit for Eclipse →
The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is a plug-in for the Eclipse Java IDE that makes it easier for developers to develop, deploy, and debug Java applications using Amazon Web Services. With the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, you’ll be able to get started faster and be more productive when building AWS applications.
“sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart”
– Cisco VPN - Fix for Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem
Patrick F. Spear » Projects » gcalcron →
The script allows you to use Google Calendar as a frontend for cron-like scheduling on your Unix/Linux system.
How the iPhone 3.0 Will Create a New Mobile... →
The iPhone 3.0 OS could be transformational. Just as the Internet transformed how people purchase goods and services, the new iPhone features may build an economy for on-demand goods and services that do not depend on any specific location or time.
10+ Best Firefox Addons for Security and Privacy |... →
Security and privacy are some of the major concerns these days while choosing a web browser to use. So much so that all the major players in the “browser wars” are providing or developing a private browsing mode.
redis - Google Code →
Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements.
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