Recent Links › July 2006
- The car that blogging bought
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Abe [yugatech] just got his first car courtesy of his blogging earnings. Congrats pre, pasakay naman!
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- Bryan Veloso joining Automattic
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Yes, a Filipino is joining Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Akismet. Congrats! #
- WordPress 2.0.4
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If you’re running on WP2, get the latest version and update your weblog. This is primarily a security release fixing several issues, but they’ve thrown in over fifty bug fixes as well. #
- Be an Expert on Anything
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With blogs sprouting every second, everybody is an expert, or at least tries to. This article will help you “fake it” and command respect and fame. #
- Jani Taskinen leaves the PHP group
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One of PHP’s lead programmers leaves, apparently due to political reasons related to the Israel–Lebanon conflict. #
- Writing words vs. writing software
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“Whether we?re authoring software or prose, rewriting is key. Rewriting is when you turn good into great.” #
- Copy What You Like
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“That was one of the most valuable things I learned from painting: you have to figure out for yourself what’s good. You can’t trust authorities. They’ll lie to you on this one.” Another good essay from Paul Graham. #
- Relational Database Normalisation Process
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“Normalization is the process of efficiently organising data in a database. There are two main objectives of the normalization process: eliminate redundant data and ensure data dependencies make sense.” #
- Apollo 11 TV Tapes Go Missing
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Apparently, the master copies of the moon landing footages are suddenly missing, just in time for NASA’s planned return to the moon. Concidence? #
- Library of Free Data Models
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Designing a database? Why reinvent the wheel, your answer could possibly be here. This is a good collection of data models than can easily fit various needs. #
- Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers
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“For years, the business-software development world has been split largely between Microsoft’s .Net toolset and Java. Get ready for a third option.” #
- One of the greatest footballers ever was a Filipino
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“… remains the all-time top goal scorer in the history of Spain’s FC Barcelona, one of the most storied and richest clubs in world football… “ #
- Materazzi’s history of violence
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If you think Zidane was crazy for headbutting on a World Cup Final, here’s a compilation of Marco Materazzi’s downright violence in other games in his career. Perhaps dirty tricks of similar nature were slowly provoking Zidane throughout their match, until he snapped. #
- The Zidane headbutt
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Jason Kottke’s disection of the Zidane headbutt in the World Cup finals they lost to penalty shootout. I’m late in sharing this, but interesting still. #
- Accidental Tech Entrepreneurs Turn Their Hobbies Into Livelihoods
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Your tech hobby could just be the next big thing, just as these enthusiasts accidentally discovered. #
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