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Linux Commands For The Web
Can’t remember if I saw this before, or if I posted it, but it’s beautiful. One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups, ls became (the original) Yahoo!,…
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The Future of Arduino and Android
Very interesting talk by the creator of Arduino about their plans for integrating with Android.
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Verpa's Gmail lib
Playing with this library to access my Gmail account via IMAP. Seems pretty simple and convenient, though fairly basic.
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RIP Dennis Ritchie
Forget Steve Jobs, the guy who invented C has died!
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BEACHhtml on GitHub
It’s kind of trivial, but I put the html generating code that I mentioned in this post into GitHub. Mainly because I wanted to be able to share it between a couple of different projects and it made sense to use a Git submodule. So here it is.
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Google's Dart
So Google’s Javascript replacement language, Dart goes public. Looks awfully like Java with a smattering of CoffeeScript. I like the empty compact constructor and the one-liner functions. But I’m not sure what those colon ones are doing. Presumably some jQuery-like action with the document.query(). Looks a little bit messy, but then Javascript has got kind…
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How GitHub Scales Its Culture
Good explanation of the GitHub culture, built, as you’d expect, around asynchronous pulling.
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Shhhh …
I have a confession … I re-installed the Google App. Engine dev, environment on my machine. I popped open the Mind Traffic Control codebase and looked into it. I was a bit overwhelmed at the clunkiness of some of the code (I’ve become a more concise Python programmer since then) but I realised I could…
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Google's "Future of Javascript"
So Google blame Javascript’s weaknesses for Apple’s success with iOS and its app ecosystem, and want to replace JS with their own alternative. Obviously I think this is the most wrong-headed thing I’ve heard in a while, and a worrying sign of idiocy within Google. I’m not particularly concerned about the future of Javascript which…
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Trello
Trello looks very interesting.