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Links for 2007-10-15

blanders — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:06:46 +0000

Paul Graham: The Equity Equation
Interesting article from Paul Graham on how to determine if a VC equity deal, or a new hire stock offer, is a good value. Followup discussion on news.ycombinator.com is interesting as well.
Tags: startup, business, venture-capital
Nora the Piano-Playing Cat (video)
Pretty much just what the title says. Very cute.
Tags: video, cute, cats
Prototype 1.5.1 released
Final version out as of May 1
Tags: javascript, programming, web
Fark.com: Making Money Off of Goofy News
Interview with Drew Curtis from Fark.com on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
Tags: interview, fark, web
CoRD
Open-source remote desktop client for Mac OS X (based on the rdesktop code). Universal binary and much nicer than MSFT’s official client.
Tags: osx, rdp, software, remote-desktop
Basics of Compiler Design
Online textbook from a university professor in Denmark.
Tags: online-books, education, compilers, computer-science
Wizard Entertainment
Great interview with Joss Whedon discussing Wonder Woman, X4, Goners, and even Battlestar Galactica (the new one).
Tags: interview, scifi-fantasy, buffyverse, joss, comics, movies
JavaScript Tools TextMate Bundle
Lets you run Javascript Lint, JSMin, and Dojo Compressor from within TextMate
Tags: textmate, osx, programming, webdev
Adobe CS3Clean Script
Looks like you can’t just trash the Photoshop CS3 beta or install over it. You need this script to clean up Adobe’s mess before installing the release version.
Tags: photoshop, adobe, osx
S5 Reloaded
New enhanced version of the outstanding S5 browser-based presentation/slideshow system.
Tags: powerpoint, presentations, webdev, javascript, ajax, css
How to Change the World
Ten questions with Seth Godin about his new book.
Tags: productivity, books, interview
Amazon.com: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin has a new book out: “Whether you’re a graphic designer, a sales rep, an athlete, or an aspiring CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you’re in a Dip that’s worthy of your time, effort, and talents. If you are, The Dip will ins
Tags: books, productivity
Amazon: ALL-ETT Billfold — Thinnest Wallet Ever Made
Looks quite impressive. Can hold up to 30 cards without significant bulk.
Tags: geektoys
Free Hosting of YUI Files from Yahoo!
Awesome! Yahoo is allowing developers to serve up the YUI JavaScript, CSS, and image assets directly from their edge servers.
Tags: yui, yahoo, javascript, hosting
macosxhints.com - TFTPd configuration and usage
Very useful if you’re on a Mac and do router/switch admin. I always have to Google to remember the right steps to enable TFTP.
Tags: sysadmin, cisco, osx, tftp
Y Combinator: Startup News
Reddit-like web site focused on startups, from Paul Graham’s “Y Combinator” VC firm.
Tags: startup, news
Third body pulled from giant sinkhole
That’s the kind of hole from which you expect to see appear a giant worm of some sort.
Tags: weird
Resolving Files with TextMate, Subversion, and FileMerge
Nice little tutorial on using TextMate’s (somewhat poorly-documented) Subversion support, along with Apple’s FileMerge tool, to work through Subversion conflicts when updating a file.
Tags: osx, programming, textmate, subversion
Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips At Work (Getting to Done)
Great collection of tips for being more productive. Many are specific to software development, but quite a few are applicable to any work.
Tags: programming, productivity
Rails Envy: Acts_As_Ferret Tutorial
Great rails plugin that makes model objects searchable using Ferret, the high-performance Ruby full-text search engine based on Apache Lucene.
Tags: lucene, programming, ruby, rubyonrails, search
Advanced Linux Programming
Full text available online. Published in 2001 and described as being for “[developers] already experienced with programming for the GNU/Linux system, are experienced with another UNIX-like system and are interested in developing GNU/Linux software, or wa
Tags: books, linux, programming

Photosynth: Unbelievably cool demo

blanders — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:35:45 +0000

Photosynth is an incredible product (based on a technology called Seadragon) from Microsoft Live Labs for visualizing huge data sets. The demo video, from last year’s TED conference, is absolutely amazing.

Links for 2007-07-19

blanders — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:05:35 +0000

Paul Graham: The Equity Equation
Interesting article from Paul Graham on how to determine if a VC equity deal, or a new hire stock offer, is a good value. Followup discussion on news.ycombinator.com is interesting as well.
Tags: startup, business, venture-capital

Links for 2007-05-11

blanders — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:18:36 +0000

Nora the Piano-Playing Cat (video)
Pretty much just what the title says. Very cute.
Tags: video, cute, cats
Prototype 1.5.1 released
Final version out as of May 1
Tags: javascript, programming, web
Fark.com: Making Money Off of Goofy News
Interview with Drew Curtis from Fark.com on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
Tags: interview, fark, web

Links for 2007-04-30

blanders — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:11:59 +0000

CoRD
Open-source remote desktop client for Mac OS X (based on the rdesktop code). Universal binary and much nicer than MSFT’s official client.
Tags: osx, rdp, software, remote-desktop

Links for 2007-04-27

blanders — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:04:47 +0000

Basics of Compiler Design
Online textbook from a university professor in Denmark.
Tags: online-books, education, compilers, computer-science, -to-be-read

Republished my ADExport Script

blanders — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:50:28 +0000

Realized that at some point my script for exporting all email addresses from Microsoft Exchange got moved out of the document root. It’s back, and you can find it here. I haven’t tested it in a while (since we moved from Sendmail/SpamAssassin to IronPort at work), but it worked well enough when we were using it.

Links for 2007-04-23

blanders — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:04:50 +0000

Wizard: Joss Whedon
Great interview with Joss Whedon discussing Wonder Woman, X4, Goners, and even Battlestar Galactica (the new one).
Tags: interview, scifi-fantasy, buffyverse, joss, comics, movies
JavaScript Tools TextMate Bundle
Lets you run Javascript Lint, JSMin, and Dojo Compressor from within TextMate
Tags: textmate, osx, programming, webdev
Adobe CS3Clean Script
Looks like you can’t just trash the Photoshop CS3 beta or install over it. You need this script to clean up Adobe’s mess before installing the release version.
Tags: photoshop, adobe, osx
S5 Reloaded
New enhanced version of the outstanding S5 browser-based presentation/slideshow system.
Tags: powerpoint, presentations, webdev, javascript, ajax, css
How to Change the World
Ten questions with Seth Godin about his new book.
Tags: productivity, books, interview
Amazon.com: The Dip
Seth Godin has a new book out: “A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick).”
Tags: books, productivity
Amazon: ALL-ETT Billfold — Thinnest Wallet Ever Made
Looks quite impressive. Can hold up to 30 cards without significant bulk.
Tags: -wishlist, geektoys

Back Among the Living

admin — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:38:43 +0000

I decided to start blogging again, assuming I can come up with something interesting to say. Back to using WordPress for the moment, along with MarsEdit and TextMate.