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Use unix sockets with merb

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:20:30 +0900

merb -a thin -h /tmp/app.sock

Shichigosan (753) in Kyoto

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:21:53 +0900

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The Geotargeted Cloud: Singapore to Offer Cloud Computing Service

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:01:21 +0900

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The Geotargeted Cloud: Singapore to Offer Cloud Computing Service

Over the last year I’ve been saying one of the biggest opportunities in cloud computing is in the creation of “regional” compute clouds. These geo-specific sources of capacity which I described in…

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Halloween

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:37:23 +0900

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Minimal Ubuntu install

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:24:39 +0900

Origin

# install ubuntu jeos from
# http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jeos/releases/hardy/release/jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.iso
sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get -y install xorg xdm gnome-core human-theme
/etc/init.d/xdm start

OS X Tip: Opening a new terminal tab in the current location

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:54:52 +0900

mallipeddi:

This is extremely useful while programming. Your pwd is /really/long/path/to/some/folder and you want to open a new tab in the OS X Terminal and navigate to the same folder. You can automate this thanks to AppleScript.

Save the following script in a file named ~/scripts/newtab.scpt:
on run argv
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down
tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd " & item 1 of argv in front window
end run
Then in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, add the following:
alias newtab='osascript ~/scripts/newtab.scpt `pwd`'
Credits: I found this solution here.

"…people who are stuck at that job, working for a boss who likes to hear himself talk in the..."

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:48:35 +0900

“…people who are stuck at that job, working for a boss who likes to hear himself talk in the daily meeting for two hours…”

- Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption

tog - extensible open source social network platform

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:47:08 +0900

tog - extensible open source social network platform: (via drawohara)

"Let’s face it: SEO is a joke, not a job."

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:31:13 +0900

“Let’s face it: SEO is a joke, not a job.”

- .NET Butchering

Brazilian Professor Invents Solar Powered WiFi Access Point : EcoWorldly

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:29:20 +0900

Brazilian Professor Invents Solar Powered WiFi Access Point : EcoWorldly: (via drawohara)

I’ll be nicer, when you’re smarter

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:28:16 +0900

I’ll be nicer, when you’re smarter

Dells says: BYOC: Build Your Own Cloud

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:43:12 +0900

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Dells says: BYOC: Build Your Own Cloud

Today Dell launched an exciting new service: Dell Remote Access. One might ask: “Is this a cloud service?” On its own, no, it’s not. Is it cloudy? Absolutely, because for the digital nomads out…

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Fring Delivers the Most Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone so Far

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:13:59 +0900

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Fring Delivers the Most Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone so Far

If an all-in-one VoIP and IM client on your iPhone is what you’ve been yearning for since the multi-touch device first arrived on the scene, and particular since the popular App Store officially…

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Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummier

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:10:37 +0900

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Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummier

Oishiku Henkan (lit. Yummy Converter) is a web service which adjust automatically a color balance of an uploaded JPEG image of food to make the food image look yummier.It

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Untitled

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:08:09 +0900

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Dipity 2.0: It’s Like A Timeline View For FriendFeed (And It’s Fun)

Dipity, a timeline-based lifestreaming aggregator, has launched its 2.0 release to the public. The new release includes a variety of new social features that have turned Dipity into a viable…

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Google AppEngine - A Second Look

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:01:57 +0900

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Google AppEngine - A Second Look

Update 4: Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it by Aral Balkan. We don’t care that it can scale. We care that it does scale. And that it scales when you need it the most. Issues: 1MB limit on data structures; 1MB limit on data structures; the short-term high CPU quota; quotas in general; Admin? What’s that?
Update 3: BigTable Blues. Catherine Devlin couldn’t port an application to GAE because it can’t do basic filtering and can’t search 5,000 records without timing out: “Querying from 5000 records - too much for the mighty BigTable, apparently.” Followup: not the future database. “90% of the work of this project has been trying to figure out workarounds and kludges for its bizzare limitations.”
Update 2: Having doubts about AppEngine. Excellent and surprisingly civil debate on if GAE is a viable delivery platform for real applications. Concerns swirl over poor performance, lack of a roadmap, perpetual beta status, poor support, and a quota system as torture chamber model of scalability. GAE is obviously part of Google’s grand plan (browser, gears, android, etc) to emasculate Microsoft, so the future looks bright, but is GAE a good choice now?
Update: Here are a few experience reports of developers using GAE. Diwaker Gupta likes how easy it is to get started on the good documentation. Doesn’t like all the limits and poor performance. James here and here also likes the ease of use but finds the data model takes some getting used to and is concerned the API limits won’t scale for a real site. He doesn’t like how external connections are handled and wants a database where the schema is easier to manage. These posts mirror some of my own concerns. GAE is scalable for Google, but it may not be scalable for my application.

It’s been a few days now since GAE (Google App Engine) was released and we had our First Look. It’s high time for a retrospective. Too soon? Hey, this is Internet time baby. So how is GAE doing? I did get an invite so hopefully I’ll have a more experience grounded take a little later. I don’t know Python and being the more methodical type it may take me a while. To perform our retrospective we’ll take a look at the three sources of information available to us: actual applications in the AppGallery, blogspew, and developer issues in the forum.

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"Take the human part away and passport security falls apart."

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:59:33 +0900

“Take the human part away and passport security falls apart.”

- How to Clone and Modify E-Passports

SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:34:26 +0900

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SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise

SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these constituencies - social…

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Product: Gearman - Open Source Message Queuing System

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:30:58 +0900

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Product: Gearman - Open Source Message Queuing System

Gearman is an open source message queuing system that makes it easy to do distributed job processing using multiple languages. With Gearman you: farm out work to other machines, dispatching…

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My computer is owned

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:36:43 +0900

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