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- Another scene from my life with Kiara
Here’s a tip. When telling one’s spouse about a story in the Onion, make sure they’re awake enough to notice that you said it’s from The Onion. I started telling Kiara about this guy who was caught in a scented candle store during a mall shooting. “I looked around at where I was and told myself there [...]
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:39:07 +0000 - links for 2008-02-21
Software Craftmanship: Apprentice to Journeyman [Software Craftsmanship] This book has been put up in wiki form to allow for collaborative development prior to publication. (tags: development ebooks) Deep Dive: Blu-ray Disc Java, An Interview With Bill Foote Bill Foote is Sun’s Blu-ray Java architect. (tags: java interview sun)
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:23:49 +0000 - links for 2008-02-20
VisualHub: The Universal Video Converter for Mac. Looks like one of the better apps for video conversion. (tags: video apple) iSquint iPod video converter for the Mac (tags: video apple ipod) Eventually Consistent Werner Vogels on Eventual Consistency. (tags: architecture database distributed concurrency scalability amazon) Mozilla Messaging Part of me is still surprised by the activity that still surrounds Thunderbird. (tags: Mozilla email messaging)
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:23:00 +0000 - links for 2008-02-15
sqlmap: a SQL injection tool (tags: sqlinjection pentesting python webappsec owasp opensource)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:23:20 +0000 - links for 2008-02-14
On Resume, Error. (tags: resume) Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes (tags: javascript java) Five things to do to a script before handing it over to the next developer Chris Heilmann on a bit of JavaScript refactoring (tags: javascript refactoring) Pragmatic Architecture: Security Good series of architecture articles by Ted Neward (tags: architecture msdn security) Dan Ingalls and Allen Wirfs-Brock: On Smalltalk, Lively Kernel, [...]
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:25:04 +0000 - Mac Spaces
One of the reasons I was happy to upgrade to Leopard was that I could finally use Spaces, Apple’s take on virtual workspaces. Once I started using it, though, I was mostly content. Defining and switching between spaces is easy, and now I can keep my work projects separate from my RSS reader, iTunes, Twitter, [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:05:51 +0000 - links for 2008-02-13
Security Twits Twitter users in the security community (tags: security twitter via:dcortesi) SAML v2 - Parleys Presentation by Sun’s Pat Patterson (tags: saml identity presentations) YouTube - Frozen Grand Central A couple hundred people posed absolutely still for 5 minutes in Grand Central Station. Watch people react. Kinda fun. (tags: art performance youtube) Navigate Leopard Spaces, in Mac Tips (tags: osx) At Last, a $20,000 Cup [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:25:16 +0000 - Keeping Warm
Kiara and I were snuggling on the couch watching Earth 2 last night, and I noticed she was shivering. Huh. It was a little colder than I expected. I have the thermostat set to drop to 60 after 11 p.m., figuring that if we’re not in bed by then, which we rarely are, it’s our [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:07:00 +0000 - New Firefox 3 beta
Oh sure. I went digging today through the Firefox nightly builds to find a release of the latest Firefox 3 beta, and hours later they show up on the main beta download page.Of course. I’ve been looking forward to Firefox 3 mainly because I’ve been having trouble with Firefox 2 crashing or hanging on my Mac. [...]
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:56:51 +0000 - links for 2008-02-12
GlassFish v3 Ruby Gem - New Home on RubyForge (tags: ruby jruby glassfish)
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:26:15 +0000
