Recent Links › May 2006
- Going to Google
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Doug Bowman is going to Google! We should see pleasing interfaces and eye candy across Google’s products and services with such a great talent leading the design team. Good times.
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- FontEditor BitfontMaker
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Make your own bitmap font! Don’t forget to check BitFont Museum. #
- Oracle exec hits out at ‘patch’ mentality
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“What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?” #
- Password Hashing
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Any aspiring web developer should read on the topic of storing paswords and securely protecting them. This is a must for those developing muti–user services and applications. #
- Canon to stop making single-lens camera
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With the slow demise of film SLRs, will we finally see the death of mainstream film photography? #
- Sink or Swim
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“Pisay graduates are accused of overconfidence and academic delinquency in college.” #
- 101 Fabulous Freebies
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Some of the best things in life are free. #
- The firm that blew it all in two years
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Burn 160 million pounds in less than two years: Gizmondo. #
- The Eternal Value of Privacy
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What’s wrong with this statement: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?” #
- MacBook: What you need to know
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Thinking of getting a MacBook anytime soon? Here’s are some considerations you might need to address. #
- Introducing the all–new MacBook.
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Yes, the iBook replacement is finally here! #
- Signs You’re a Crappy Programmer (and don’t know it)
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I think everyone is guilty of at least one item. #
- How The Da Vinci Code Doesn’t Work
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A lot of people are questioning Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” for its reference to various truths and beliefs we’ve grown to accept, but here’s another way of showing how the book doesn’t work, in more practical terms. #
- How to Love a Framework You’ve Never Used
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“The dynamic languages make programmers so much more productive that even conservative business types are forced to sit up and notice.” #
- Australia celebrates, and mourns, after mine rescue
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The two Australian miners trapped for 14 days inside a caved–in mine is finally over, with the men rescued successfully by fellow miners from all over Australia. #
- Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
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Separate yourself from your code; ten things to live by towards separation of self (ego?) from code. #
- Strategic Commenting: No blog is an island
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Solve the “no one visits / links to / comments on my blog!” problem. #
- getElementsBy*() function index
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“This is a handy reference for all the various getElementsBy*() JavaScript functions that are out there.” Handy indeed. #
- Style-Force Semplice Pixelfonts
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Yes, free bitmap fonts! #
- 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
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“Focus on social instead of personal” is first on the list, and probably most relevant. You can’t build an app that tries to solve the world’s problems without first attending to the personal needs of the user. #
- The Five Most Common Lies in Business
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“There are as many lies in business as there are people in business.” #
- The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
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Startup school once again as Paul Graham releases another essay on the subject. This time, he discusses the pattern of lessons learned from every startup, successful or otherwise. #
- Conventional RSS
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A common approach to RSS from the WordPress and Textpattern folks. Hopefully, iPAP will take this path as well. #
- The myth of “keeping up”
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Trying to do everything to “keep up” is a myth. You have to find your passion and the things that really matter. #
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