There’s been some great discussions about the state of programming. Confession: I’m much more of a sysadmin and architecture guy than anything else at this point. If it doesn’t have a quick configuration file or a GUI, at this point, I don’t do much with it because I don’t have …
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I’ve installed Semantic Mediawiki in our existing mediawiki instance at work to start tracking some of the data we need to retain for compliance and audit documentation purposes.
As the list of things that we support has grown, the number of servers has grown, and our documentation overhead has …
Friday funnies:
Secret Driven-Development Acronyms
With both, see the comments for extra user-added LOLz.
Seems people are already spooling up the laugh tracks for April Fools day.
The Five Hidden Costs Of Running A Content Management System (Via The Big Contrarian)
I wish someone at work had read this before we implemented Zope/Plone. Sure, it’s nice to be able to train stakeholders in one system and have them maintain content on multiple sites, but the cost …
This is really cool, but also kinda scary. Beating a Captcha with Javascript, OCR, and a Neural Network. Before you “tl;dr”, there’s some very interesting coding techniques in there like the shortcut points that feed the neural network and the rudimentary edge detection.
I’ll go one step further than John Gruber and say that the Kottke.org redesign is like seeing an old friend with a new haircut — and hoping that it isn’t permanent and doesn’t signal a new trend.
The first reading list of 2009. Can you tell I’m working on a design or two?
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Paul Graham (Y Combinator, the first spam filter, and the first web-based app: Viaweb) is one of the smartest guys on the internet when it comes to startups. He makes some great points in his article about placing controls on processes in big companies and small startups. His thesis …
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