June 2011
33 posts
LA: Google Launches Their Answer to Facebook,... →
loganabbott:
Today, Google finally launched their answer to Facebook, which essentially turns Google into a huge social network. Among the changes, the navigation bar at the top will be black, and function like the Facebook notification bar, complete with red notification number. The Google+ friends lists…
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2011's Web Development Trends →
mytino asked: Thanks for your trigonometry in games tutorial, now I know how to make objects move in lots of different ways, like spirals, waves, circles and so on. :D
I tested it and made a "custom gear program". Hehe.
I tested it and made a "custom gear program". Hehe.
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How can I Thoroughly Evaluate a Prospective... →
A great list of questions to ask a perspective employer. People tend to forget that job interviews are a two way proposition.
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Product Road maps are Dangerous →
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Wyoming First state to 'Go Goolge' →
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Mt Gox's Reaction →
comprised account caused a huge selloff. Market should be back to normal soon, though there will probably still be a huge drop in the market afterwards.
I think i’m done attempting to use Mt Gox
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Sleep sort (javascript version)
zero1infinity:
function sleepsort() { for (var i = 0, il = arguments.length; i < il; i++) { (function(args, index) { setTimeout(function() { document.body.innerHTML += args[index] + ‘, ‘; }, args[index]); }(arguments, i)); } }; sleepsort(5, 26, 3, 845, 1276, 536, 825, 77);
BRILLIANT… source
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IE Only Banner generates 60% - 80% of my income →
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Kinect SDK Now Available For Windows →
Really smart move on Microsoft’s part. The Kinect is a great piece of technology, just probably not for games. I’m really excited to see what people can come up with.
This really makes me want a Kinect more than any title they have come out with so far.
ORM is an anti-pattern →
interesting article about ORMs, while I agree on some of his points (mainly the one about inefficiency) I still feel like there is a lot of problems ORM solves. He completely neglects sanitation and additional behavior that can be tied to database actions, as well as the problem of building complex, conditional queries. which a good ORM can solve.
The inefficiency question is a big one though....
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Tumblr now has more blogs than Wordpress →
I love this. it shows that no matter how monolithic the competition may seem, there is always a way to topple it if you can provide a better product.
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The Unix Philosophy: The Rule of Modularity
Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces
There is a company that used to be a shining example of this rule, but they have lost their way. That company is Lego. take a look at a recent star wars set they have released:
You can see there are many parts that are specific that would only work in this set (particularly on the top of the ship). When writing code, it’s best to not...
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The UNIX Philosophy
The UNIX philosophy is one that was written about writing software for the UNIX platform. This series of posts takes a deeper look into the tenets of UNIX, and how they apply to modern software development (and sometimes, even in life). I’ll be adding these articles over the coming weeks:
The Rules of the UNIX Philosophy
The Rule of Modularity
The Rule of Clarity
The Rule of...
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Writing Multi-Part Articles
One thing I’ve always enjoyed is writing multi-part article series. Not to long ago I did one of these on Tumblr, my 5 part series on SOLID programming principles.
It’s a good personal challenge for a couple reasons:
It forces you to stick to something, since you’ve already laid out the article plan
It forces you to look deeper into a particular subject matter.
gets rid of...
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Idiorm & Paris: Simple ORM & ActiveRecord for PHP →
Been looking for a simple ORM / Active record solution for PHP. was Considering either rolling my own or ripping out the Kohana’s ORM library to make it stand alone, but these to projects look really promising.
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What the Hell is Happening to Rails? →
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Metallica's One, as Played by Google →
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Tumblr ProTip: Making headers in your posts
It’s not displayed in the post bar at the top, but since Tumblr uses the markdown syntax, there are several elements that you can make that are displayed. One example is being able to make different levels of headers. you can do this with different numbers of pound signs before the text.
# This is an H1
## This is an H2
### This is an H3
#### This is an H4
##### This is an H5
###### This is...
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Really Cool Sub-Reddit Styles
On Reddit, mods of sub reddits have the option of adding custom CSS to their section of the site. Here are that went above and beyond a few modifications, and make some really beautiful looks for the site:
BeerIt
For enthusiasts of great beer. no Coors light here. Link
Bacon Reader
Subreddit for discussing an independently developed reddit client for Andriod. Link
Colbert Rally
Not...
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Rails 3.1.0.rc2 Released →
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Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal →
shortlogic:
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…
Great read. It makes sense that something that had such a meteoric rise could...
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Weird PHP inconsistency
A lot of people complain about the inconsistencies in the php standard library, and for good reason. So, quiz time: which one of this is correct:
$comma_list = implode(',', $arr);
or:
$comma_list = implode($arr, ',');
Jeopardy music…
time’s up! the correct answer is: either one works. For some reason, this particular php function can take the arguments in either order. crazy,...
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Map Generation →
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