Entries written in July 2008
Written July 9, 2008 in reading list
- Wil Shipley: The Greatest Bug of All … it’s not so much the path that he takes or the methodology he uses to locate the bug as it is experience. This is why experience looks like magic to people who don’t have it, and why experience commands higher salaries
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Yesterday, I wrote a long post about PackageKit and pkcon. The general gist of the post is that the software isn’t ready for prime time. Richard Hughes was nice enough to respond and address some of my concerns, and to suggest that I download the development version …
- Big Contrarian — one of the best blogs I’ve added to my reading list since the day I added Kottke. And now, via Big Contrarian:
- The history of the writing of the C language A little dry, but fascinating.
- Better CSS font stacks. Bookmarked so I can find
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Continuing the thread of my earlier article on twitter’s architecture mistakes, Big Contrarian (new favorite weblog) made a post a few days ago that caught the SQL optimization report that Twitter leaked via it’s staging site, and then rapidly pulled down.
Ok, Biz Stone, you twit, you failed …
- Radio-guy.net — A bunch of oddball cool stuff. Via jwz.
- Migrating OOP Libraries and Frameworks to PHP 5.3 — It’s in my google shared items, but it’s worth reposting. Not only is it good common sense, but it’s written by one of the best PHP coders I know of,
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There’s enough changes in PHP 5.3 that they should probably have iterated a larger number … say php 5.5 or even bumping it to php6. They’re necessary changes, and bring in some long-needed tools like namespaces (and some that will cause some snobspurists to continue to pan the language, like …
A friend of mine works for Craigslist. We were talking about their problems with spam on the dating forums, and he was talking about how so many of the ‘people’ responding to ads are spam bots — and how many ‘people’ posting ads are spam bots. Internally, they’re wondering when …
- Less Accounting — along with my man-love of Freshbooks, Less Accounting is a more accounting-ish replacement for Quickbooks. Quickbooks sucks and you should not use it.
- I need to check out the Smart package management system for OpenSuSE… it’s a replacement for Zypper. Zypper’s come a long way
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