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multipart/mixed: SVN vs. Mercurial vs. Git For Managing Your Home Directory am 25. April 2008 unter backup git mercurial Subversion

For several years I've kept the bulk of my home directory in a revision control system. This allows me to synchronize my files across the two machines I use commonly, keep a backup on my home NAS box, and have complete revision history of files.


RailsJitsu - Now Feeding RSS In Rails 2.0 am 24. April 2008 unter rails RSS ruby

Yesterday I did was trying to render an RSS feed on the new gaming web engine we are building and I was trying to find a resource that discusses the new .builder technique mentioned by DHH at RailsConf 2007 and I didn’t have any luck, so I hacked my way


Venu Anuganti Blog » Notes from Scaling MySQL - Up or Out am 23. April 2008 unter chillitwister database facebook for mysql scaling

Here is the list of panelists are ordered by Alexa ranking. 1. Monty Taylor (MySQL) 2. Matt Ingerenthron (Sun) 3. John Allspaw (Flickr) 4. Farhan Mashraqi (Fotolog) 5. Domas Mituzas (Wkipedia) 6. Jeff Rotheschild (Facebook) 7. Paul Tuckfield (YouTube)


10 Mistakes in Icon Design - TurboMilk am 21. April 2008 unter gui icons image interface

In my opinion, icon design is undergoing a transitional period. On the one hand, screen resolutions are increasing, hence enhancing icons. On the other hand, we still have good old pixels. Icons sized 16×16 and even smaller are still widely used. And so,


My Life on Facebook as a Woman and Why Social Network Advertising Doesn't Work | CenterNetworks am 21. April 2008 unter advertising facebook for rallllle

Since day 1 with Facebook, I've been shocked at how poor the ad quality is. For a company that has a $15B valuation, their ad sales teams plain suck. Do you seriously mean to tell me that all they can sell for a man is sex ads? Facebook knows more about m


Social Networking Advertising - It Will Be Even Harder than we Think | Charles Hudson's Weblog am 21. April 2008 unter advertising for rallllle socialnetworking

I’ve had a few experiences in the past few weeks that continue to bolster my belief that monetizing social networks and communities will continue to be a lot harder than people think.


Cyclopedia Square: ReCAPTCHA and Django FreeComments am 19. April 2008 unter django recaptcha spam

Integrating reCAPTCHA with the Django freecomments wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be though, so I want to write down how I made it work in case it will help somebody else down the road.


Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft’s kings of bloat | InfoWorld | Review | 2008-04-14 | By Randall C. Kennedy am 16. April 2008 unter performance windows

Our tests show that Windows Vista and Office 2007 not only smash Redmond’s previous records for weight gain, but given the same hardware diet, run at less than half the speed of generation XP


QDB: Quote #244321 am 16. April 2008 unter irc weird

hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars


Open Source Rails am 15. April 2008 unter opensource programming rails ruby

Open Source Ruby on Rail applications