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1.from cambodia (www.redditall.com)
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Rifgraf (adam.blog.heroku.com)Ever want to store some metrics from an app, and later graph the results? I often do. Stuff like: number of users, number of daily orders, or number of tickets closed per week.
And how do you implement this? Create a table or three in your app's da...
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3.in case you didn't hear, breadpig is going to be on spiketv this saturday (www.redditall.com)
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4.cow porn on every virgin america flight (www.redditall.com)
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5.michael arrington loves feedback fail! (www.redditall.com)
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6.more great reviews of lolmagnetz, one even confirming the death of english (www.redditall.com)
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7.How to Run an Open Source Software Project (adam.blog.heroku.com)
Some tidbits from Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel:
Keep all discussions in the open. Avoid the temptation to discuss subjects which impact the whole project in private sidebars.
Make it easy to get set up and running with the project ri... -
8.svn whoami (abstractstuff.livejournal.com)
There is no "svn whoami" command, and no easy way to fake it.Here's what I wound up doing:# Get our svn username.username=`svn lock $0 | awk '{print $NF}' | tr -d "\'\."`svn unlock $0 > /dev/null 2> /dev/nullecho "Your svn use...
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9.thinkgeek lolmagnetz = full of win (www.redditall.com)
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10.DDL Transactions (adam.blog.heroku.com)
Jeremy Kemper merged my patch to wrap migrations in a transaction into Rails edge last week. (This was a two year old patch - props to Tarmo Täv for some mad rebasing.)
Wrapping migrations in a transaction is obviously the Right Thing To Do. But muc...
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11.banner day for popcuts (www.redditall.com)
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12.wisdom of crowds? internet pwnage on wired (www.redditall.com)
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13.We are hiring (abstractstuff.livejournal.com)
Justin.TV is hiring engineersHere's what you need to know about JTV:- We are the largest live video site in a rapidly growing market. If you want to check them out, some of our competitors in this space are ustream.tv, livevideo.com, stickam.com,...
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14.Adding Growl Notifications to Facebook (tlrobinson.net)
Yesterday Facebook added the “Live Feed”, which is like the existing News Feed, but automatically updates the page without requiring the user to refresh. It simply polls Facebook’s servers every few seconds, rather than the slightly fancier “comet”-sty...
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15.Hidden Asumptions (adam.blog.heroku.com)
Changing things tends to shake out your hidden assumptions. Over time, any system - software, process, even social - starts to build cruft in its cracks. When the earthquake hits, a good system withstands it, because its assumptions are sound and wel...
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17.Object-Oriented File Manipulation (adam.blog.heroku.com)
The file manipulation routines in Ruby's stdlib are a bit of a mess. Operations are scattered among different classes - File, Dir, and FileUtils. Methods often aren't where you expect them - like File.directory? but not Dir.directory?. But worst of ...
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18.Email (abstractstuff.livejournal.com)
I finally fixed my email problem.I've used email since '95. Back then, I got a handful of messages each day, all from friends, and it was so easy to handle that I didn't think anything of it.These days it's a lot harder. I get may...
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20.Corn and Software (adam.blog.heroku.com)
King Corn is an excellent documentary which describes the overproduction of corn in America. At the end, they dig into the question of why this surplus production exists. The summary is: in the first half of the last century, starvation was still a r...
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21.Shortest parser (blog.emmettshear.com)
We have a programming problem we give out at Justin.tv: write a parser to
convert arithmetic expressions from infix to prefix (should deal with parens
and arbitrary variable names). I wrote a version when I first came up with the
problem, but I've l... -
22.Press and Viral aren't the only two marketing and distribution strategies! (www.immadsnewworld.com)
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23.wrecking bar painted and ready for shipment (www.redditall.com)
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24.DNA Lounge on Justin.TV (abstractstuff.livejournal.com)
I'm very pleased to see justin.tv is working out for the dna lounge - my favorite club in SF!
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25.Cash cows: large markets and opportunities (www.immadsnewworld.com)
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