Bookmarks for February 19th through February 22nd

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

These are my links for February 19th through February 22nd:

Bookmarks for February 10th through February 16th

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

These are my links for February 10th through February 16th:

Bookmarks for January 26th through February 9th

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

These are my links for January 26th through February 9th:

  • Going for a trot on the Django pony - A newbies opinion of Django - Always nice to see a favourite framework from a new persons perspective
  • Google Buzz API - Google Buzz has the internets all abuzz (sorry couldn't resist). But despite the blogs claiming it's just Friendfeed or facebook rebadged, I think the API's all being based on open standards will make a huge difference.
  • JetBrains PyCharm Preview - Jetbrains, the company that bought you IntelliJ, my favourite java IDE, have finally released the public beta version of their Python IDE. It claims Django support as well.
  • Down with 64 bit pointers, up with 32 bit indices - Alex from Media Molecule has posted a nice post explaining how he has reduced the in-memory size of large tables by not using 64-bit pointers but instead using a large allocated block, and 32bit indices instead. This was presented at Scale Camp and it's nice to see a write up of it.
  • Equals Drummond on Fixing the Google Account problem - An excellent overview of Google Accounts, GMail Accounts and why identity systems are really really frickin hard

Bookmarks for January 19th through January 21st

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

These are my links for January 19th through January 21st:

  • Kindle Development Kit - Yes! The kindle development kit is coming. VOIP and Ads are forbidden, and "not be a generic reader" whatever that means.
  • Top 20 free-to-play RPG browser games by Casual Girl Gamer - Exactly what it says, some nice free RPG games for playing online.
  • A successful Git branching model from nvie.com - Yes, actually true. This is a git branching model that "just works" tm. With the slight exception of needing to manually add –no-ff to a few of the merge commands, it looks perfect for internal development at many companies.
  • Wufoo, A/B Testing and why being small can help - "Incidentally, I think this is a good demonstration of how Rails, crafty application of cheap software, and the related bag of tricks let you be more nimble than you would be if you were e.g. running on enterprise Java.  I’ve implemented surveys for the universities who are clients of my day job, and surveys of roughly comparable complexity typically require planning meetings so that we can add them to the schedule and eventually detail an engineer or two to get them started.  There’s a place for that in the world, don’t get me wrong, but I’m already collecting data."
  • jsFiddle - for fiddling with javascript and several mainstream libraries - A beautifully put together tool for experimenting with one of the major javascript libraries. For trying stuff out and prototyping something this is very cool.

Bookmarks for January 8th through January 11th

Friday, January 15th, 2010

These are my links for January 8th through January 11th: